"Girls, Maths and Computing: A Smart Equation" Day

On Tuesday 11 January, a day of awareness-raising on gender stereotypes and post-baccalaureate orientation was held for a mixed audience of high school students. This day was organised by the associations Animath and Femmes&Maths.

International day for Girls' Science and Technology Awareness

On Thursday 9 December, the international day to raise awareness among young girls about scientific and technical professions took place. Nathalie Camelin, Nicolas Dugué and Marie Tahon spoke to the students of the Touchard high school in partnership with the association "Elles bougent".

Une nouvelle étoile montante à Le Mans Université

Iza Marfisi, a teacher-researcher in computer science, has been awarded the "Rising Stars" programme for her MIXAP project at the Computer Science Laboratory of the University of Le Mans (LIUM). This programme, set up by the Pays de la Loire Region, supports young researchers by helping them to develop their research project. One of its main challenges is to support them in submitting a future project of greater impact at the European level.

Will living with intelligent machines make the world more fair?

Find the podcast of Anthony Larcher's intervention on France Bleu Maine at this address: https://www.francebleu.fr/emissions/2-minutes-pour-explorer-avec-maine-sciences/maine

TurtleTablet wins the best Serious Game at the International ECGBL competition

The LIUM Human Active Correction Platform for Speaker Diarization

The LIUM Human Active Correction Platform for Speaker Diarization

The human assisted speaker diarization platform enables a human annotator to correct the output of any speaker diarization system by providing a graphical view of the diarization segmentation and clustering steps and guiding the human annotator to optimize the correction process and easily improve the resulting diarization.

Best paper award for Thibault Prouteau at IDA

The paper SINr: fast computing of Sparse Interpretable Node Representations is not a sin! recieved the best paper award at the 19th Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA 2021).

Congrats to Thibault Prouteau, Nicolas Dugué, Nathalie Camelin and Sylvain Meignier!

Atlanstic 2020 magazine

Atlanstic 2020 magazine has been published.

International scientific cooperation Marie Slodowska Curie RISE : Great succes for Le Mans Universtity

Three projects led by researchers from Le Mans University, including Anthony Larcher, are laureates of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action, RISE. As coordinators of international teams, they have been awarded significant funding to promote their collaborations and accelerate their research.

When algorithms reproduce stereotypes: the case of natural language processing

Voir l'article de vulgarisation de Victor Connes et Nicolas Dugué "Quand les algorithmes reproduisent les stéréotypes : le cas du traitement automatique du langage" sur le site de Papier Mâché.

Anthony Larcher on Radio alpa

Is artificial intelligence reliable and useful during the health crisis? Anthony Larcher's interview can be replayed on radio alpa.

Louis d’Hainaut 2020 reward

Aïcha BAKKI a été récompensée, le 29 avril 2020 à l’occasion de la 7ème édition du Prix Louis D’Hainaut de la meilleure thèse en technologie éducative pour sa thèse intitulée : «Modèle et outil pour soutenir la scénarisation pédagogique de MOOC connectivistes», soutenue le 12 décembre 2018 à l’Université du Mans (France). A cette occasion, nous l'avons rencontrée.

ALLIES Evaluation for Autonomous Speaker Diarization Systems

ALLIES Evaluation for Autonomous Speaker Diarization Systems open in December 2019. learn more

Anthony Larcher, invited speaker to the ASRU 2019 Life long learning workshop

Anthony Larcher is an invited speaker at the Life Long Learning for Spoken Language Systems Workshop colocated with ASRU 2019, held in Singapore from 14 to 18th of December.

LIUM's participation in Voice Tech Paris 2019 with AlloMedia

LIUM is participating, with AlloMedia, in Voice Tech Paris 2019, the 1st B2B event dedicated to voice technologies in France, which will be held on 26 and 27 November 2019.

IWSLT - results - First place End-to-End speech translation

The LIUM participated to the evaluation campaign organized by the 16th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT). ON-TRAC Consortium (LIG, LIA, LIUM) participated in the Speech Translation task, (English-Portuguese sub-task) and its end-to-end system ranked first.

Best Paper at CSEDU

The paper "Lecture instrumentation based on synchronous speech transcription" received Best paper award at the CSEDU conference.

Congradulations to Malik Koné, Madeth May, Sébastien Iksal and Souleymane Oumtanaga!

PEPS 2018 Prize

Three researchers of LIUM (Iza MARFISI, Sébastien GEORGE et Aous KAROUI) received the PEPS national prize (Passion for pedagogy in higher education) in the category "supporting pedagogy". This category rewards outstanding support actions that encourage the involvement of teachers and researchers in the sustainable transformation of teaching methods on a significant scale.

Best Paper à ICALT

The paper "Lecture instrumentation based on synchronous speech transcription" received BEST PAPER AWARD at ICALT.

Congradulations to Vincent Bettenfeld, Christophe Choquet and Claudine Piau-Toffolon !

Apprentissage automatique et TAL pour l’indexation de la documentation SNCF

LST Team is pleased to welcome two new interns, Merieme Bouhandi and Xining Li, to work for the LIUM laboratory during 24 weeks.

Forum Jeunes Recherche, le jury du prix "Expose ta thèse"

Bravo à Kévin VYTHELINGUM qui a reçu le « Prix du Poster » lors du 15e Forum Jeunes Recherche destiné aux doctorants et organisé par le Pôle doctoral de l’université.