I
am coordinating the "
NLP
and interaction" research theme of the
BDTLN

team.
The following researchers are involved in this theme
:
Agata
SAVARY 
,
Denis
MAUREL 
,
Anaïs
LEFEUVRE 
,
Nathalie
FRIBURGER 
,
Benoit Rouxel (PhD student from the
Lab-STICC

lab)
as well as my former colleagues
Damien
NOUVEL 
(LIMSI) and
Jeanne
VILLANEAU 
(IRISA).
Spoken
Human-Machine dialogue - Spoken language processing
- EMOTIROB
Project
: speech understanding and detection of emotions for a
companion (PhD of Marc Le Tallec, 2012)
- ANCOR
:project :
resolution of nonimal anaphora in spoken language
Handicap and
smart homes : NLP and Human-System Interaction
Computer-aided communication
- Sibylle
AAC system : PhDs of Igor Schadle
(2003) and Tonio Wandmacher (2008) : adaptive language model for
word prediction
(Latent Semantic Analysis)
- VOLTAIRE
(AFM)
et
CVK-SibySem (Alcatel-Lucent /Garches Fundation)projects:
integration of the Sibylle
word prediction module in the CVK
/ CiViKey
virtual keyboard.
Ambient assisted living
- EMOTIROB
project
(ANR
Robotics) : emotional companion robot for vulnerable children.
- DANAH project (Lab-STICC
)
: non-Intrusive monitoring system for ambient assisted living and
service delivery to people with special needs (PhDs Thanh TRUONG, 2010
; Willy
ALLEGRE, in progress
Named
Entities recognition
- Sequence mining for NE
recognition (PhD of Damien
NOUVEL - 2012)
- Named entities detection in
conversational speech (EPAC
and VARILING
projects)
Corpus
linguistics
- Linguistic analysis of spoken
dialogue corpora (speech disfluences, word order variation, anaphora)
- Bank of french speaking
corpora of spoken dialogue : PAROLE PUBLIQUE
- CO2 and ANCOR
projects :
corpus studies
of pronominal and nominal coreference
- TEMPORAL project : temporal
annotation of spoken language corpora
Evaluation of NLP systems
- Speech understanding
: DCR and DEFI methodologies, workgroup GT 5.5 of theGDR-I3.
- Handicap :
user evaluation of Sibylle AAC
system with people suffering from cerebral palsy (ESAC_IMC
project and PhD of Samuel POUPLIN).
- Named entities detection
: participant in the french speaking ESTER2
(2009) and ETAPE
(2012)
evaluation campaigns.
- Inter-coder agreement
measures and evaluation of emotion detection systems
Human-Systems
Interaction and mobility
- Handicap and smart homes
: computer-aided communication systems and user control of ambient
assisted living.
- nteractive systems for the
detection of anormal situations in costal trafic monitoring (RECONSURVE
europen project :
Phd of Benoit ROUXEL, in progress)
Didactics
of computer science
- Convergence of Learning
Techniques (COLT project) in the European Union