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Groupe AEF info consacre une dépêche à la signature de la convention entre Le Mans Université et Réseau Canopé 📝

le LIUM sera présent au Digital ON - le festival des cultures numériques

Best poster at ECTEL 2022 conference

The SituLearn project won best poster award at the international ECTEL conference.

dossier EdTech

Iza MARFISI - SCHOTTMAN, Maitre de conférences au LIUM, présente ses projets de recherche dans le dossier thématique edtech de la SATT Ouest Valorisation.

Risks of the digital and computer environment in education

Digital school dropout, isolation, attention deficit disorder... the Covid-19 crisis has demonstrated the limits of the digital world. At the Centre de Recherche en Éducation de Nantes (CREN) and the Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université du Mans (LIUM), Florent Carlier and Sébastien George, both teacher-researchers in computer science, and their teams are studying the reactions, traces and behaviors of pupils and students in computer environments. Their goal is to help teachers to improve pedagogical activities and thus limit the risks linked to digital technology and distance.

Artificial intelligence, risks and automatic speech transcription

Anthony Larcher and Antoine Laurent, computer scientists at the Computer Science Laboratory of the University of Le Mans (LIUM), train artificial intelligences to understand the human voice as well as possible. Their goal: to reduce the risk of error that the machine can make as much as possible, but also to allow humans to rely on their analytical capacity to make a decision.

Researchers from LIUM participates to the JHU Summer School on Human Language Technology et au JSALT workshop

3 PhD students and 2 teachers-researchers partipate to the annual JSALT workshop organized by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore

Cycle de webinaires sur l'égalité filles-garçons

Une chercheuse du LIUM présente ses travaux dans le cadre d'un cycle de webinaires sur l'égalité filles-garçons organisé par le ministère de l'éducation.

"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

Inauguration du UserLab Distribué Pédagogique

Le UserLab a été créé dans le but de favoriser la co-conception de situations de formation avec des enseignants afin de susciter des innovations techno-pédagogiques, mais aussi d'évaluer leur utilité et leur mise en application. Installé sur deux sites distants (Le Mans et Laval), le Userlab aura la spécificité d’appréhender les dynamiques individuelles et collectives, en présentiel et à distance.

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.

The LIUM gets a new logo