Seminar from Vincent Kather, PhD student at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands Date : 27/04/2026 Time : 10h30 Place : IC2, Boardroom Speaker : Vincent Kather Deep Learning in Bioacoustics: From Supervised Classification to Unsupervised Novel Species Identification Abstract: Bioacoustics describes the study of sounds produced by organisms. It has […]
PhD position : Unraveling prosodic representations in speech processing systems Supervisors: Marie Tahon (LIUM, dir), Jane Wottawa (LIUM) Hosting team: LST Team, Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Université du Mans (LIUM) Site: Le Mans Starting date : Octobre 2026 Contact: Marie Tahon and Jane Wottawa (name.surname@univ-lemans.fr) How to apply: Submit your resume, cover letter, and master’s transcript […]
yLang (Projet YLANG)Date: 10/2025 – 04/2027Funding: AutresCall: P2IAPartners: nolej (France), Nathan (France)URL: https://ylang.education/index.htmlLIUM Participant(s): Jane WottawaAghilas SiniMarie TahonAntoine TeissierYLANG is a project funded by the Ministry of National Education as part of the P2IA initiative, which aims to innovate language learning in Cycle 3 (bridging the gap between elementary school and the first year of […]
PhD thesis: Interpretable and frugal models for acoustic monitoring of ecosystems Supervisors: Théo Mariotte (LIUM), Marie Tahon (LIUM, dir) Host Laboratory: Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Université du Mans (LIUM) Site: Le Mans Starting date: October 2026 Contact: Marie Tahon et Theo Mariotte (name.surname@univ-lemans.fr) How to apply: You can submit your application (CV, motivation letter, ) on […]
PhD position in Automatic measurement and prediction of the distance to a sound source using microphone arrays for bird species detection Supervisors: Théo Mariotte (LIUM), Manuel Melon (LAUM) Marie Tahon (LIUM, dir) hosting teams: Laboratoire d’Acoustique de l’Université du Mans (LAUM), Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Université du Mans (LIUM) Site: Le Mans Starting date : October […]
GDR TAL Workshop: Explainability and Interpretability in Natural Language Processing Place : Sorbonne Université, ISIR, Jussieu, Paris Date : 17 March 2026 Time : 9h30 – 17h LIUM participated in the GDR NLP workshop titled “Explainability and Interpretability in Natural Language Processing: Challenges, Methods, and Applications,” organized by the Interpretability Working Group, of which […]
Interpretable Language Models (InLM)Date: 01/2026 – 06/2027Funding: Région Pays de la LoireCall: Étoiles montantes en Pays de la Loire 2025URL: https://lium.univ-lemans.fr/en/inlm/LIUM Participant(s): Nicolas DuguéSince the advent of deep learning, the performance of natural language processing (NLP) systems has improved considerably, leading to the emergence of large language models (LLMs). Three factors have contributed to these […]
Seminar from Valentin Pelloin, researcher at INA Date : 02/03/2026 Time : 10h30 Place : IC2, Boardroom Speaker : Valentin Pelloin Self-Supervised Learning representations for French Audiovisual Broadcasts Abstract: We look into how the pretraining datasets of SSL (Self-Supervised Learning) models impact their downstream results. We build a large pretraining corpus […]
Neural representations disentangled by prosody and application to speech synthesis Level: Master 1 Supervisors: Marie Tahon & Théo Mariotte (LIUM) Host Laboratory: Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Université du Mans (LIUM) Location: Le Mans Beginning of internship: From April 2026 Contact: Marie Tahon or Théo Mariotte (firstname.name@univ-lemans.fr) Application: Send a CV, a covering letter relevant to the […]
Seminar from Youness Dkhissi, PhD student at LIUM and Orange Date : 13/02/2026 Time : 11h00 Place : IC2, Boardroom Speaker : Youness Dkhissi Do we really need Self-Attention for Streaming Automatic Speech Recognition? Abstract: Transformer-based architectures are the most used architectures in many deep learning fields like Natural Language Processing, […]
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