Research

Put at scale cutting edge NLP approaches

Spoken Language Processing (SLP)

  • Multilingual Spoken Language Understanding
  • Human–Machine dialogue systems
  • Underesource languages

Machine learning for NLP (ML4NLP)

  • Scalability & Big Data (Web Search Engines)
  • Neural & Statistical Machine Translation
  • Deep Learning for NLP
  • Word Embeddings
  • Domain Adaptation

Information Retrieval

  • Intention Detection
  • Query Understanding
  • Question Answering

Evaluation methods

  • Evaluation campaingns (SLU & TA)
  • Human and automatic metrics
  • “Human in the loop”
  • Confidence measures

Publications

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Article dans une revue

Translation project adaptation for MT-enhanced computer assisted translation
Mauro Cettolo, Nicola Bertoldi, Marcello Federico, Holger Schwenk, Loïc Barrault, Christophe Servan
Machine Translation, 2014, Machine Translation Journal, 28, pp.127. ⟨10.1007/s10590-014-9152-1⟩
https://hal.science/hal-01157893/file/Servan_MT_Journal_2014.pdf BibTex
Optimising Multiple Metrics with MERT
Christophe Servan, Holger Schwenk
The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, 2011, 96, pp.109
https://hal.science/hal-01157949/file/art-servan-schwenk.pdf BibTex

Communication dans un congrès

LongEval: Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance at CLEF 2023
Rabab Alkhalifa, Iman Bilal, Hsuvas Borkakoty, Jose Camacho-Collados, Romain Deveaud, Alaa El-Ebshihy, Luis Espinosa-Anke, Gabriela Gonzalez-Saez, Petra Galuščáková, Lorraine Goeuriot, Elena Kochkina, Maria Liakata, Daniel Loureiro, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Philippe Mulhem, Florina Piroi, Martin Popel, Christophe Servan, Arkaitz Zubiaga
European Conference on Information Retrieval, Apr 2023, Dublin, Ireland. pp.499-505, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_58⟩
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Benchmarking Transformers-based models on French Spoken Language Understanding tasks
Oralie Cattan, Sahar Ghannay, Christophe Servan, Sophie Rosset
INTERSPEECH 2022, Sep 2022, Incheon, South Korea
https://hal.science/hal-03715340/file/Cattan_et_al-INTERSPEECH_2022.pdf BibTex
On the Usability of Transformers-based models for a French Question-Answering task
Oralie Cattan, Christophe Servan, Sophie Rosset
Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe (CIRCLE) 2022, Jul 2022, Samatan, France
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03701740/file/CIRCLE_2022___extended_abstract_paper__RANLP__2_col_CEUR.pdf BibTex
Étude comparative de modèles Transformers en compréhension de la parole en français
Oralie Cattan, Sahar Ghannay, Christophe Servan, Sophie Rosset
34e Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole (JEP2022), Jun 2022, Île de Noirmoutier, France
https://hal.science/hal-03701654/file/JEPs_2022%20%282%29.pdf BibTex
On the Usability of Transformers-based models for a French Question-Answering task
Oralie Cattan, Christophe Servan, Sophie Rosset
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), Sep 2021, Varna, Bulgaria
https://hal.science/hal-03336060/file/RANLP_2021_transformers_usability.pdf BibTex
On the cross-lingual transferability of multilingual prototypical models across NLU tasks
Oralie Cattan, Christophe Servan, Sophie Rosset
ACL workshop on Meta Learning and Its Applications to Natural Language Processing (MetaNLP), 2021, Bangkok, Thailand
https://hal.science/hal-03298026/file/metaNLP_2021.pdf BibTex
Neural Networks approaches focused on French Spoken Language Understanding: application to the MEDIA Evaluation Task
Sahar Ghannay, Christophe Servan, Sophie Rosset
In Proceedings of The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING’2020), 2020, Dec 2020, Barcelona (online), Spain
https://hal.science/hal-03007482/file/Coling2020%283%29.pdf BibTex
Conception d'un système de détection d'intention pour un moteur de recherche sur Internet
Estelle Maudet, Christophe Servan
6e conférence conjointe Journées d'Études sur la Parole (JEP, 33e édition), Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN, 27e édition), Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (RÉCITAL, 22e édition). Volume 4 : Démonstrations et résumés d'articles internationaux, Jun 2020, Nancy, France. pp.50-52
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02768512/file/170.pdf BibTex
Using Whole Document Context in Neural Machine Translation
Valentin Macé, Christophe Servan
16th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation 2019, Nov 2019, Hong-Kong, China
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02316397/file/Mace_IWSLT2019.pdf BibTex
Qwant Research @DEFT 2019 : appariement de documents et extraction d'informations à partir de cas cliniques
Estelle Maudet, Oralie Cattan, Maureen de Seyssel, Christophe Servan
Atelier Défi Fouilles de Texte 2019, Jul 2019, TOULOUSE, France
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02172582/file/DEFT2019.pdf BibTex
Word2Vec vs DBnary: Augmenting METEOR using Vector Representations or Lexical Resources?
Christophe Servan, Alexandre Bérard, Zied Elloumi, Hervé Blanchon, Laurent Besacier
COLING 2016, ANLP & ICCL, Dec 2016, Osaka, Japan
https://hal.science/hal-01376948/file/metrics_enhanced_COLING2016.pdf BibTex
Listen and Translate: A Proof of Concept for End-to-End Speech-to-Text Translation
Alexandre Bérard, Olivier Pietquin, Laurent Besacier, Christophe Servan
NIPS Workshop on end-to-end learning for speech and audio processing, Dec 2016, Barcelona, Spain
https://hal.science/hal-01408086/file/listen_and_translate_nips_2016_final.pdf BibTex
Better Evaluation of ASR in Speech Translation Context Using Word Embeddings
Ngoc-Tien Le, Christophe Servan, Benjamin Lecouteux, Laurent Besacier
Interspeech 2016, Sep 2016, San-Francisco, United States
https://hal.science/hal-01350102/file/metrics_correlation_asr-smt.pdf BibTex
Word2Vec vs DBnary ou comment (ré)concilier représentations distribuées et réseaux lexico-sémantiques ? Le cas de l’évaluation en traduction automatique
Christophe Servan, Zied Elloumi, Hervé Blanchon, Laurent Besacier
TALN 2016, Jul 2016, Paris, France
https://hal.science/hal-01350101/file/T10.pdf BibTex
MultiVec: a Multilingual and Multilevel Representation Learning Toolkit for NLP
Alexandre Bérard, Christophe Servan, Olivier Pietquin, Laurent Besacier
The 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), May 2016, Portoroz, Slovenia
https://hal.science/hal-01335930/file/Berard_and_al-MultiVec_a_Multilingual_and_Multilevel_Representation-LREC2016.pdf BibTex
An Open Source Toolkit for Word-level Confidence Estimation in Machine Translation
Christophe Servan, Ngoc-Tien Le, Ngoc Quang Luong, Benjamin Lecouteux, Laurent Besacier
The 12th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT'15), Dec 2015, Da Nang, Vietnam
https://hal.science/hal-01244477/file/WCE_iwslt15.pdf BibTex
Adaptation par enrichissement terminologique en traduction automatique statistique fondée sur la génération et le filtrage de bi-segments virtuels
Christophe Servan, Marc Dymetman
22ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, ATALA, Jun 2015, Caen, France
https://hal.science/hal-01157850/file/terminology-final-version.pdf BibTex
Comparison of Data Selection Techniques for the Translation of Video Lectures
Joern Wuebker, Hermann Ney, Martínez-Villaronga Adrià, Adrià Giménez, Alfons Juan, Christophe Servan, Marc Dymetman, Shachar Mirkin
The eleventh biennial conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-2014), AMTA, Oct 2014, Vancouver, Canada
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01157888/file/paperAMTA.pdf BibTex
Issues in Incremental Adaptation of Statistical MT from Human Post-edits
Mauro Cettolo, Christophe Servan, Nicola Bertoldi, Marcello Federico, Loïc Barrault, Holger Schwenk
MT Summit XIV Workshop on Post-editing Technology and Practice, Sep 2013, Nice, France
https://hal.science/hal-01158054/file/Servan_WPTP2013.pdf BibTex
Calculation of phrase probabilities for Statistical Machine Translation by using belief functions
Christophe Servan, Simon Petitrenaud
The 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), Dec 2012, Mumbai, India
https://hal.science/hal-01158098/file/C12-2107.pdf BibTex
LIUM's SMT Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2012
Christophe Servan, Patrik Lambert, Anthony Rousseau, Holger Schwenk, Loïc Barrault
The Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT12), Jun 2012, Montreal, Canada
https://hal.science/hal-01158083/file/WMT47.pdf BibTex
Utilisation des fonctions de croyance pour l’estimation de paramètres en traduction automatique
Christophe Servan, Simon Petitrenaud
La conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012, Jun 2012, Grenoble, France
https://hal.science/hal-01158101/file/F12-2051.pdf BibTex
Using Cross-Language Information Retrieval for Machine Translation
Dhouha Bouamor, Christophe Servan, Nasredine Semmar, Ali Jaoua
5th Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, Nov 2011, Poznań, Poland
https://hal.science/hal-01490031/file/ltc-81-semmar.pdf BibTex
Investigations on Translation Model Adaptation Using Monolingual Data
Patrik Lambert, Holger Schwenk, Christophe Servan, Sadaf Abdul-Rauf
Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Jul 2011, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. pp.284-293
https://hal.science/hal-00625481/file/11_07_wmt_adaptationWithMonolingualData.pdf BibTex
LIUM's SMT Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2011
Holger Schwenk, Patrik Lambert, Loïc Barrault, Christophe Servan, Haithem Afli, Sadaf Abdul-Rauf, Kashif Shah
The Sixth workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Jul 2011, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
https://hal.science/hal-01158072/file/WMT58.pdf BibTex
LIUM’s SMT Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2011
Holger Schwenk, Patrik Lambert, Loïc Barrault, Christophe Servan, Sadaf Abdul-Rauf, Haithem Afli, Kashif Shah
Proceedings of the sixth Workshop on Statistical Macine Translation, Jul 2011, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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A Hybrid Approach for Machine Translation Based on Cross-language Information Retrieval
Christophe Servan, Nasredine Semmar
The International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2010), Dec 2010, Paris, France
https://hal.science/hal-01158549/file/Servan_IWSLT2010.pdf BibTex
A Hybrid Word Alignment Approach to Improve Translation Lexicons with Compound Words and Idiomatic Expressions
Nasredine Semmar, Christophe Servan, Gaël de Chalendar, Benoît Le Ny, Jean-Jacques Bouzaglou
The 32nd Translating and the Computer Conference - ASLIB, Nov 2010, London, United Kingdom
https://hal.science/hal-01158113/file/Servan_ASLIB2010.pdf BibTex
On the Use of Machine Translation for Spoken Language Understanding Portability
Christophe Servan, Nathalie Camelin, Christian Raymond, Frédéric Béchet, Renato de Mori
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE, Mar 2010, Dallas, Texas, United States. pp.5330 - 5333, ⟨10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5494960⟩
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Fast call-classification system development without in-domain training data
Christophe Servan, Frederic Bechet
The proceedings of the International Conference on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP) Interspeech 2008, Sep 2008, Brisbane, Australia
https://hal.science/hal-01158650/file/FB_2008_INTERSPEECH_1.pdf BibTex
Composition sémantique pour la compréhension de la parole dans un cadre de dialogue
Frédéric Duvert, Marie-Jean Meurs, Christophe Servan, Frédéric Béchet, Fabrice Lefèvre, Renato de Mori
Les 27e Journées d’Etudes sur la Parole (JEP), Jun 2008, Avignon, France
https://hal.science/hal-01159983/file/061_jep_1637.pdf BibTex
Frame-Based Acoustic Feature Integration for Speech Understanding
Loïc Barrault, Christophe Servan, Driss Matrouf, Georges Linarès, Renato de Mori
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2008. ICASSP 2008., Mar 2008, Las Vegas, NV,, United States. pp.4997-5000, ⟨10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518780⟩
https://hal.science/hal-00424663/file/Barrault-ICASSP2008.pdf BibTex
Semantic composition process in a speech understanding system
Frédéric Duvert, Marie-Jean Meurs, Christophe Servan, Frédéric Béchet, Fabrice Lefèvre, Renato de Mori
The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Mar 2008, Las Vegas, United States. ⟨10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518788⟩
https://hal.science/hal-01158578/file/Servan_ICASSP2008b.pdf BibTex
Composition sémantique pour la compréhension de la parole dans le cadre de dialogue
Frédéric Duvert, Marie-Jean Meurs, Christophe Servan, Frédéric Béchet, Fabrice Lefèvre, Renato de Mori
Journées d'Etude sur la Parole (JEP), 2008, Avignon, France
BibTex
Utilisation des transducteurs dans le décodage conceptuel : application au corpus MEDIA
Christophe Servan
MajecSTIC, Nov 2006, Lorient, France
https://hal-univ-avignon.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00480199/file/LIA_servan_MAJECSTIC2006.pdf BibTex
Conceptual decoding from word lattices: application to the spoken dialogue corpus MEDIA
Christophe Servan, Christian Raymond, Frédéric Béchet, Pascal Nocera
The Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP), Sep 2006, Pittsburgh, United States
https://hal.science/hal-01160181/file/FB_2006_INTERSPEECH_1.pdf BibTex
Décodage conceptuel à partir de graphes de mots sur le corpus de dialogue Homme-Machine MEDIA
Christophe Servan, Christian Raymond, Frédéric Béchet, Pascal Nocera
Les XXVIes Journées d'Étude sur la Parole (JEP 2006), Jun 2006, Dinard, France
https://hal.science/hal-01160185/file/FB_2006_JEP_1.pdf BibTex
Results of the French Evalda-Media evaluation campaign for literal understanding
H Bonneau-Maynard, C Ayache, F Bechet, Alexandre Denis, A Kuhn, F Lefevre, D Mostefa, M Quignard, S Rosset, Christophe Servan, J Villaneau
The fifth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), May 2006, Genes, Italy
https://hal.science/hal-01160167/file/0c960525bb1bde4482000000.pdf BibTex
Décodage conceptuel et apprentissage automatique : application au corpus de dialogue Homme-Machine MEDIA
Christophe Servan, Frédéric Béchet
La 13ème édition de la conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2006), Apr 2006, Louvain, Belgium
https://hal.science/hal-01160173/file/taln-2006-long-030.pdf BibTex
Utilisation des transducteurs dans le décodage conceptuel application au corpus MEDIA
Christophe Servan
MAnifestation des JEunes Chercheurs en Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (MajecSTIC), 2006, Lorient, France
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Poster de conférence

On the cross-lingual transferability of multilingual prototypical models across NLU tasks
Oralie Cattan, Christophe Servan, Sophie Rosset
ACL-IJCNLP 2021, Aug 2021, Bangkok, Thailand
https://hal.science/hal-03298408/file/MetaNLP_2021__poster_.pdf BibTex

Proceedings/Recueil des communications

Journée commune AFIA/TLH - ATALA N°2 sur le thème "Technologies du Langage Humain et Santé
Corinne Fredouille, José G. Moreno, Aurélie Névéol, Christophe Servan
Journée commune AFIA/TLH - ATALA 2021, Feb 2021, en ligne, France. , 2021
https://hal.science/hal-03280218/file/Dossier_TLH_Sante_AFIA_ATALA.pdf BibTex

Rapport

Image search using multilingual texts: a cross-modal learning approach between image and text
Maxime Portaz, Hicham Randrianarivo, Adrien Nivaggioli, Estelle Maudet, Christophe Servan, Sylvain Peyronnet
[Research Report] qwant research. 2019
https://hal.science/hal-02077556/file/egpaper_for_review.pdf BibTex

Thèse

Apprentissage automatique et compréhension dans le cadre d’un dialogue homme-machine téléphonique à initiative mixte
Christophe Servan
Autre [cs.OH]. Université d'Avignon, 2008. Français. ⟨NNT : 2008AVIG0173⟩
https://theses.hal.science/tel-00591997/file/These_ChristopheServan_these.pdf BibTex

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