Uninterrupted design process of innovative computer-based tools : application to automatic transcription in technology enhanced learning environmentsStarting: 01/10/2016PhD Student: Vincent BettenfeldAdvisor(s): Christophe Choquet (LIUM – IEIAH)Co-advisor(s): Claudine Piau-Toffolon (LIUM – IEIAH), Raphaëlle Crétin-Pirolli (Centre de Recherche en Éducation de Nantes)Funding: ANRThe thesis objective is the proposition of a methodology guiding users in the instrumentation of […]
A multimodal interactive augmented reality system aware of context. (Toward a human-machine symbiosis)Starting: 01/09/2016PhD Student: Damien BrunAdvisor(s): Sébastien George (LIUM – IEIAH) & Charles Gouin-Vallerand (LICEF de l’Université du Québec)Co-advisor(s): Funding: CRSNG (Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et en Génie du Canada)In a similar way than smartphones augmented reality eyewear devices are poised to […]
Multilingual Neural Architectures for Natural Language ProcessingStarting: 01/09/2016PhD Student: Adrien BardetAdvisor(s): Sylvain Meignier (LIUM, LST)Co-advisor(s): Loïc Barrault (LIUM, LST) & Fethi Bougares (LIUM, LST)Funding: M2CRThe objective of this thesis is machine translation through multilingual neural systems. The effectiveness of these approaches as already been shown in monolingual machine translation where you translate from a single […]
Joint, fast, and effective building of multilingual systems for speech recognition and synthesisStarting: 15/03/2016PhD Student: Kevin VythelingumAdvisor(s): Yannick Estève (LIUM, LST)Co-advisor(s): Anthony Larcher (LIUM, LST) & Olivier Rosec (Voxygen)Funding: CIFRE (Voxygen)Speech technology development was split through a few reseach centers, each working on a small number of languages. The problem of fast development of new […]
Learning and applications of distributed multilingual representationsStarting: 01/10/2015PhD Student: Alexis ConneauAdvisor(s): Paul Deléglise (LIUM, LST)Co-advisor(s): Loïc Barrault (LIUM, LST), Holger Schwenk (Facebook)Funding: CIFRE (Facebook)Learning and applications of distributed multilingual representations
Spoken Language Understanding for human-computer interactionStarting: 01/10/2015PhD Student: Edwin SimonnetAdvisor(s): Yannick Estève (LIUM, LST)Co-advisor(s): Nathalie Camelin (LIUM, LST)Funding: Projet Européen (JOKER) / RégionThis thesis work is done in connection with the European project JOKER (JOKe and Empathy of a Robot/ECA: Towards social and affective relations with a robot). This project is funded by the program […]
Design of dynamic, adaptative and context-sensitive TEL dashboardsStarting: 01/10/2015PhD Student: Inès DabbebiAdvisor(s): Sébastien IKSAL (LIUM-IEIAH) & Serge Garlatti (Labsticc-IHSEV)Co-advisor(s): Jean-Marie Gilliot (Labsticc-IHSEV)Funding: ANR Hubble ProjectThis thesis is part of a general problem related to technology enhanced learning (TEL) and more specifically to the construction of analysis processes to accompany the decision-making of actors involved in […]
Automatic Analysis of Human Motion Data in Technology Enhanced Learning EnvironmentsStarting: 01/09/2015PhD Student: Quentin CoulandAdvisor(s): Sébastien George (LIUM – IEIAH)Co-advisor(s): Ludovic Hamon (LIUM – IEIAH)Funding: Bourse des collectivités LavalloisesThis thesis’ goal is to develop a Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) environment allowing a student to improve his motion learning, by using his motion data, with machine […]
Speaker adaptation of deep neural network acoustic models using Gaussian mixture model framework in automatic speech recognition systems.Starting: 01/12/2014PhD Student: Natalia TomashenkoAdvisor(s): Yannick Estève (LIUM – LST)Co-advisor(s): Anthony Larcher (LIUM – LST)Funding: Differences between training and testing conditions may significantly degrade recognition accuracy in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Adaptation is an efficient way to […]
Factored Neural Machine TranslationStarting: 01/10/2014PhD Student: Mercedes García MartínezAdvisor(s): Yannick Estève (LIUM, LST)Co-advisor(s): Loïc Barrault (LIUM, LST) & Fethi Bougares (LIUM, LST)Funding: This work was partially funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) through the CHIST-ERA M2CR project, under the contract number ANR-15-CHR2-0006-01Communication between humans across the lands is difficult due to the diversity […]
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