Pierre-Alexandre Broux

Speaker recognition on large scale in audiovisual media, in interaction with human annotatorStarting: 03/10/2016PhD Student: Pierre-Alexandre BrouxAdvisor(s): Sylvain Meignier (LIUM – LST)Co-advisor(s): David Doukhan, Simon Petitrenaud (LIUM – LST) & Jean Carrive (INA Expert)Funding: CIFRE (ina EXPERT)La thèse proposée s’articulera autour de la reconnaissance de locuteurs à large échelle dans les archives radio et télévisuelles […]

Florent Desnous

Variable context modeling for speaker recognitionStarting: 03/10/2016PhD Student: Florent DesnousAdvisor(s): Sylvain Meignier (LIUM – LST)Co-advisor(s): Anthony Larcher (LIUM – LST)Funding: Contrat DoctoralThe aim of this thesis is to develop variable context speaker models (scalable) that integrate phonetic information produced by the speaker. These models will be learned on a significant amount of enrollment data (> […]

MAGMAT

MAGMATDate: 10/2016 – 10/2019Funding: DGA/DGFCall: RapidPartners: Airbus D&S (France), Voxygen (France)URL: https://lium.univ-lemans.fr/en/magmat/LIUM Participant(s): Loïc BarraultWalid AransaLe projet MAGMAT vise à définir et mettre en œuvre une méthodologie agile et incrémentale de développement en temps contraint d’un système de traduction le la parole vers la parole. Sur le plan du développement de langues, deux objectifs principaux […]

PASTEL

PASTELDate: 10/2016 – 04/2021Funding: ANRCall: Interactions, Robotique, Contenus / Automatique, signal 2016Partners: Orange Lab (France), cren (France), LS2N (France)URL: https://projets-lium.univ-lemans.fr/pastelLIUM Participant(s): Christophe ChoquetAntoine LaurentVincent BettenfeldNathalie CamelinChristophe DesprésMadeth MaySalima MdhaffarLahcen OubahssiClaudine Piau-ToffolonAsmaa DarouichRémi VenantPASTEL is a research project that aims to explore the potential of real time and automatic transcriptions for the instrumentation of mixed educational […]

Adrien Bardet

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 […]

Blackcompass

BlackcompassDate: 04/2016 – 04/2018Funding: Région Pays de la LoireCall: Fonds Pays de la Loire Territoires d’InnovationPartners: Dictanova (France), Ville de Nantes (France)URL: https://lium.univ-lemans.fr/en/blackcompass/LIUM Participant(s): Sylvain MeignierAntoine LaurentThe project aims to develop a software solution to valorize phone exchange content between consumers and brands by analyzing this content.

Kévin Vythelingum

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 […]

Alexis Conneau

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

Edwin Simonnet

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 […]

M2CR

Multilingual Multimodal Continuous Representation for Human Language Understanding (M2CR)Date: 06/2015 – 06/2019Funding: AutresCall: ChisteraPartners: MILA (Canada), CVC (Espagne)URL: https://projets-lium.univ-lemans.fr/m2crLIUM Participant(s): Loïc BarraultFethi BougaresNathalie CamelinYannick EstèveMercedes García MartínezSahar GhannayAdrien BardetOzan CaglayanCommunication is one of the necessary condition to develop intelligence in living beings. Humans use several modalities to exchange information: speech, written text, both in many […]