Meet the team!
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Permanent research staff
Benoît Sagot
Benoît Sagot
Senior researcher (Scientific leader, PRAIRIE chair)
Office: C108
Email: benoit.sagot[at]inria.fr
WebsiteWorking on: Language resource development, neural language models, POS tagging, parsing, computational morphology, computational historical linguistics
Djamé Seddah
Djamé Seddah
Working on: Syntactic anlysis of non-canonical texts and for morphologically rich languages, data-driven methods for the syntactic-semantic interface, contextual syntactic analysis, neural language models interpretation
Éric de La Clergerie
Éric de La Clergerie
Working on: Parsing (symbolic, statistical and neural); grammar engineering; information extraction; knowledge acquisition; interactions between context, knowledge and language; cognitive aspects of language
Rachel Bawden
Rachel Bawden
Working on: Machine translation, multilingual natural language processing, robustness
Associated members
Laurent Romary
Laurent Romary
Associated (Directeur de recherches)
Main affiliation: Direction de la Culture et de l'Information Scientifique
Office: (Berlin)
Email: laurent.romary[at]inria.fr
WebsiteWorking on: Linguistic data modelling, lexical resources, information extraction, digital humanities
Postdocs and Engineers
Tanti Kristanti Nugraha
Tanti Kristanti Nugraha
Engineer
Office: C122
Email: tanti.kristanti[at]inria.fr
Working on: Entity fishing for scholarly literature in the humanities
Julien Abadji
Julien Abadji
Working on: Large-scale multilingual corpus development and extension (OSCAR corpus)
You Zuo
Hugo Scheithauer
Rua Ismail
Rua Ismail
Engineer
Office: C123
Email: rua.mohamed-abdalla-ismail[at]inria.fr
Working on: Language identification for large-scale multilingual raw corpus development
Anna Chepaikina
Menel Mahamdi
Menel Mahamdi
Engineer
Office: C120
Email: menel.mahamdi[at]inria.fr
Working on: Automatic extraction and annotation of information regarding the ecological impact of projects handled by the French Ministry for the Ecological Transition
Niyati Bafna
Niyati Bafna
Working on: Linguistically inspired language models for closely related languages
PhD students
Axel Herold
Axel Herold
PhD student
Main affiliation: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
Office: (Berlin)
Working on: Extraction of etymological information from digital dictionaries
José Carlos Rosales Núñez
José Carlos Rosales Núñez
PhD student
Main affiliation: LISN, CNRS
Office: (LISN)
Working on: Machine translation for user-generated content
Robin Algayres
Robin Algayres
PhD student
Main affiliation: CoML Inria project-team
Office: C119
Working on: Unsupervised Automatic Speech Recognition in low resource conditions
Lionel Tadjou Tadonfouet
Lionel Tadjou Tadonfouet
PhD student
Office: (Caen)
Working on: Conversations Disentanglement
Tú Anh Nguyễn
Paul-Ambroise Duquenne
Paul-Ambroise Duquenne
PhD student
Office: C120
Email: paul-ambroise.duquenne[at]inria.fr
Working on: Study of vector spaces for sentence representation
Lydia Nishimwe
Roman Castagné
Arij Riabi
Floriane Chiffoleau
Floriane Chiffoleau
PhD student
Main affiliation: Université du Mans
Office: C121
Email: floriane.chiffoleau[at]inria.fr
WebsiteWorking on: Training data and creation of models for the text recognition of typewritten or handwritten corpus of archival collection
Matthieu Futeral-Peter
Matthieu Futeral-Peter
PhD student
Office: C122
Email: matthieu.futeral[at]inria.fr
Working on: Text-image multimodal models
Alix Chagué
Alix Chagué
PhD student
Secondary affiliation: Université de Montréal and CRIHN
Office: C120 + Montréal
Email: alix.chague[at]inria.fr
WebsiteWorking on: Methodology for the creation of training data and the application of handwritten text recognition to the Humanities.
Nathan Godey
Francis Kulumba
Francis Kulumba
PhD student
Office: C119
Working on: Disambiguation of authors, institutions and bibliographic references in scientific publications
Interns
Rishika Bhagwatkar
Admin
Meriem Guemair
Meriem Guemair
Administrative assistant
Office: A218
Email: meriem.guemair[at]inria.fr
Alumni
Permanent research staff
- Laurent Romary (Jan 17-Dec 21), currently associated member in the team
- Pierre Boullier (Jan 17-Apr 19), currently retired
Postdocs and Engineers
- Lucas Terriel (Nov 20-Oct 22)
- Wissam Antoun (Mar 22-Oct 22)
- Yves Tadjo Takianpi (Sep 20-Jun 22)
- Jesujoba Alabi (Feb 22-Jun 22), currently PhD student and researcher in the Spoken Language Systems (LSV) group, Saarland University
- Syrielle Montariol (Apr 21-May 22), currently Postdoc at Jozef Stefan Institute
- Thibault Charmet (Feb 21-Jan 22), currently PhD student at Université de Technologie de Compiègne
- Alix Chagué (Oct 18-Oct 21), currently PhD student in the team
- Floriane Chiffoleau (Mar 20-Oct 21), currently PhD student in the team
- Arij Riabi (Oct 20-Sep 21), currently PhD student in the team
- Thomas Wang (Apr 21-Sep 21), currently Engineer at HuggingFace
- Quentin Burthier (Feb 21-Mar 21), currently Data Scientist at Shift Technology
- Murielle Fabre (Nov 18-Aug 20)
- Mohamed Khemakhem (Sep 19-Aug 20), currently Chief scientific officer at ArcaScience, Paris
- Gaël Guibon (Jun 19-Jun 20), currently Post-doc at Télécom Paris
- Lionel Tadjou Tadonfouet (May 17-Mar 20), currently PhD student in the team
- Farah Essaïdi (Oct 19-Dec 19)
- Yoann Dupont (Jun 18-Dec 19), currently Post-doc at STIH, Sorbonne Université
- Alba Marina Malaga Sabogal (Sep 17-Sep 19), currently Post-doc in Providence, USA
- Clémentine Fourrier (May 18-Sep 19), currently Research scientist at Hugging Face
- Ganesh Jawahar (Mar 18-Sep 19), currently PhD student at the University of British Columbia
- Charles Riondet (Nov 15-May 19), currently In charge of the old archives at the École des Ponts ParisTech, Paris, France
- Dorian Seillier (Oct 16-May 19), currently Digital project manager at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
- Ilia Markov (Jun 18-May 19), currently Post-doc at the University of Antwerp, Netherlands
- Achraf Azhar (Nov 17-Apr 19), currently Developer at CCSD, France
- Luca Foppiano (Jan 16-Dec 18), currently Research engineer at the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
- Benjamin Muller (Apr 18-Sep 18)
- Marie Puren (Jan 16-Aug 18), currently Associate professor at EPITECH
- Elias Benaïssa (Apr 17-Apr 18), currently Computational linguist at Orange, Paris
- Émilia Verzeni (Apr 17-Apr 18), currently Associate linguist via Adecco Outsourcing for Google
- Wigdan Abbas Mekki Medeni (Apr 17-Apr 18), currently Working at the Linguistics Data Consortium (USA)
- Hector Martínez Alonso (Feb 16-Nov 17), currently Research engineer at Apple, London, UK
PhD students
- Clémentine Fourrier (Oct 19-Sep 22), currently Research scientist at Hugging Face
- Benjamin Muller (Oct 18-Jul 22)
- Pedro Ortiz Suarez (Oct 18-Apr 22), currently Postdoctoral researcher at the Data and Web Science Group at the University of Mannheim
- Louis Martin (Jun 18-Aug 21), currently Research scientist at Meta AI
- Jack Bowers (Oct 16-Oct 20)
- Mathilde Regnault (Oct 17-Sep 20)
- Mohamed Khemakhem (Sep 16-Aug 20), currently Chief scientific officer at ArcaScience, Paris
- Loïc Grobol (Oct 16-Jul 20), currently Maître de conférences (Assistant Professor) at Université Paris-Nanterre
Interns
- Rian Touchent (Jun 22-Nov 22)
- Galo Castillo Lopez (Jun 22-Aug 22)
- Pierre Vauterin (Jun 22-Aug 22)
- Kelly Christensen (Apr 22-Jul 22)
- Jules Nuguet (Apr 22-Jul 22)
- Abderraouf Farhi (Apr 22-Jul 22)
- Camille Rey (Sep 21-Mar 22, May 22-Jun 22)
- Nacim Talaoubrid (Jun 22-Jun 22)
- Matthieu Futeral-Peter (Jul 20-Jul 20, May 21-Oct 21), currently PhD student in the team
- Roman Castagné (Apr 21-Sep 21), currently PhD student in the team
- Sonal Sannigrahi (Jun 21-Aug 21)
- Manon Ovide (Mar 21-Aug 21)
- Hugo Scheithauer (Apr 21-Aug 21), currently engineer in the team
- Quentin Burthier (Sep 20-Jan 21), currently Data Scientist at Shift Technology
- Jean-Damien Genero (Mar 20-Sep 20)
- Lucas Terriel (Apr 20-Jul 20)
- Victoria Le Fourner (May 19-Jul 19)
- Abhishek Srivastava (May 19-Jul 19)
- Hafida Le Cloirec (Jun 19-Jun 19)
- Pedro J. Ortiz Suárez (Apr 18-Sep 18), currently Postdoctoral researcher at the Data and Web Science Group at the University of Mannheim
- Farah Essaïdi (May 18-Sep 18)
- Amal Fethi (Apr 18-Aug 18)
- Pauline Brunet (Mar 18-Aug 18)
- Marie-Laurence Bonhomme (Mar 18-Jul 18)
- Alix Chagué (Apr 18-Jul 18), currently PhD student in the team
- Rebecca Blevins (Jun 18-Jul 18)
- Tanti Kristanti Nugraha (May 17-Oct 17), currently engineer in the team
- Siham Feredj (Apr 17-Sep 17)
- Maram Romdhane (Apr 17-Sep 17)
- Raphael Avoustin (May 17-Aug 17)
- Julie Tytgat (Jun 17-Aug 17)
- Yann-Alan Pilatte (Jun 17-Jul 17)
- Roua Torjmen (Apr 17-May 17)
Associated members
- Damien Biabiany (Dec 18-Sep 20)
- Kim Gerdes (Mar 18-Aug 20), currently Associate professor at LISN, CNRS
- Tommaso Venturini (Sep 19-Oct 19)
- Basant Agarwal (Aug 17-Sep 17)
- Daniel Dakota (Oct 16-Jan 17)