Evaluation of weakly-supervised methods for aspect extraction

Seminar from Mohamed Ettaleb, Post-doctoral fellow at LIUM   Date: 01/07/2022 Time: 10h30 Localization: IC2 Boardroom, online Speaker: Mohamed Ettaleb   Evaluation of weakly-supervised methods for aspect extraction     Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) may provide more detailed information than general sentiment analysis. It aims to extract aspects from reviews and predict their polarities. In […]

Manon Macary

PhD defence, Manon Macary Date : 24/06/2022 Time : 14h00 Location : IC2, Boardroom and online   Title : Massive and real-time data analysis in order to extract semantic and emotional information from speech   Jury members : Ms. Martine ADDA-DECKER, Directrice de Recherche, LPP – CNRS-Sorbonne Nouvelle, Reviewer Mr. Denis JOUVET, Directeur de recherche, […]

Parole superposée et genre, étude des annotations pour les médias audiovisuels.

Seminar from Martin Lebourdais, PhD student at LIUM   Date: 06/05/2022 Time: 11h00 Localization: IC2 Boardroom, online Speaker: Martin Lebourdais   Overlapping speech and gender, a study of annotations for audiovisual media.     Our aim is to characterize gender representations in French media through interactions between speakers according to their role. This paper proposes […]

Des arbres, des chevaliers et des marionnettes : apprentissages par transferts pour le traitement des langues historiques

Seminar from Loïc Grobol, Assistant Professor at Université Paris Nanterre   Date: 29/04/2022 Time: 11h00 Localization: IC2 Boardroom, online Speaker: Loïc Grobol   Trees, knights and puppets: transfer learning for processing of historical languages   In recent years, automatic natural language processing (NLP) has evolved extremely rapidly, with NLP systems achieving record performance for many […]

Quality Estimation: Application to Machine Translation

Seminar from Frédéric Blain, lecturer at University of Wolverhampton   Date: 15/04/2022 Time: 11h00 Localization: IC2, Boardroom and online Speaker: Frédéric Blain   Quality Estimation: Application to Machine Translation.   What is a good translation? This is a simple question, yet quite a difficult one to answer, in particular when the translation has been generated […]

Chaire Professeur Junior en IA/ Tenure track AI

Tenure track in Multimodal language processing   Closing date: 2 May 2022 Description of the research project The research project should take place in the LST team goal that aims at developping a multimodal and multilingual representation space for speech and text modalities. The Junior Professor is expected to develop his/her own research diretions between […]

Les Actualités Françaises (1945-1969) : le cinéma de l’évènement.

Séminaire de Franck Mazuet, cinéaste et chercheur au CHS-CNRS   Date: 01/04/2022 Time: 11h00 Localization: IC2, Boardroom and online Speaker: Franck Mazuet project: Antract   Les Actualités Françaises (1945-1969) : le cinéma de l’évènement.   Created at the Liberation, the public filmed press company Les Actualités Françaises produced newsreels for nearly a quarter of a […]

Mixité en informatique

Afternoon of exchanges organized by the Institute of Computer Science Claude Chappe (IC2) around gender diversity in computer science at Le Mans University.   Date : 25/03/22 Time : 13h30 Localization : Le Mans University campus, Eve Building   The goal of this half-day is first to take a look at the current situation within […]

Multimodal Reasoning: Datasets, Models, and even some commonsense?

Seminar from Peter Vickers, Phd student at The University Of Sheffield   Date: 4/03/2022 Time: 11h00 Localization: IC2 Boardroom, online Speaker: Peter Vickers   Multimodal Reasoning: Datasets, Models, and even some commonsense?   My PhD project involves researching multimodal question answering, looking at text, vision, and knowledge graphs. How can we pose difficult questions for […]