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 […]

JOKER

JOKe and Empathy of a Robot/ECA: Towards social and affective relations with a robot (JOKER)Date: 01/2014 – 07/2017Funding: EU H2020Call: CHIST-ERA 2012Partners: LIMSI (coordinateur) (France), UCD (Irlande), UMONS (Belgique), KOC University (Turquie)URL: https://lium.univ-lemans.fr/en/joker/LIUM Participant(s): Yannick EstèveNathalie CamelinSimon PetitrenaudSylvain MeignierDaniel LuzzatiThis project will build and develop JOKER, a generic intelligent user interface providing a multimodal dialogue […]

Natalia Tomashenko

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 […]

Mercedes García Martínez

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 […]

Sahar Ghannay

Event Understanding through Multimodal Social Stream InterpretationStarting: 01/10/2014PhD Student: Sahar GhannayAdvisor(s): Yannick Estève (LIUM – LST)Co-advisor(s): Nathalie Camelin (LIUM – LST)Funding: Région Pays de la Loire, EUMSSI (Event Understanding through Multimodal Social Stream Interpretation)This thesis concerns a study of continuous word representations applied to the automatic detection of speech recognition errors. Recent advances in the […]