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Gwénolé Lecorvé

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# Research activities #### Current * **Language modeling** (2007-present) * **Question answering** (2021-present) * **Dialogue** (2021-present) #### Past * Language for children (2018-2024) * Text-to-speech (2012-2021) * Paraphrase generation (2018-2020) * Language register (2015-2023) * Pronunciation modeling (2012-2021) * Disfluency modeling (2016-2018) * Speech recognition (2007-2012) # Short bio * **2021-present** Researcher at Orange. * **2020** Habilitation to supervise research in computer science from University of Rennes 1. * **2019-2021** Deputy nominated member of the French National Council of Universities (Conseil National des Universités, CNU) in the Computer Science section. * **2014-2021** Permanent member in the research team Expression at IRISA (Lannion, France) * **2012-2021** Associate professor at ENSSAT/University of Rennes 1 (Lannion, France) * **2012-2013** Permanent member in the research team Cordial at IRISA (Lannion, France) * **2011-2012** Postdoctoral researcher at Idiap Research Institute (Martigny, Switzerland). * **2007-2010** Ph.D. candidate in computer science in the multimedia group (Texmex) at IRISA/INRIA (INSA de Rennes, France). * **2007** - M.Sc. in image processing and artificial intelligence at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA de Rennes, France) - M.Eng. in computer science at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA de Rennes, France) - **2004** B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science at the Université de Bretagne Sud (Lorient, France) # Project involvement #### Breton Text-To-Speech: Creation of tools and data for the Breton speech synthesis * Public Breton Language Office * Deputy coordinator * 2019-2020 #### ANR TextToKids: Language register transformation using linguistic pattern extraction * French National Research Agency * Deputy coordinator, local coordinator * 2019-2023 #### PEPS TextToKids: Language register transformation using linguistic pattern extraction * CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) * Coordinator * 2018 #### H2020 NADINE digital iNtegrAteD system for the socIal support of migraNts / and refugEes * European Commission * 2018-2021 #### P2IA: Interactive application to help children how to read and write * French Minister of Education * Local coordinator * 2019-2021 #### Kaligo DYS Learning writing with dysgraphic and dyspraxic children and young adults * Pôle Images & Réseaux / Regional + EU funding * Local coordinator * 2018-2020 #### ANR TREMoLo: Language register transformation using linguistic pattern extraction * French National Research Agency * Coordinator * 2017-2021 #### ANR SynPaFlex: Flexible speech synthesis * French National Research Agency * Task leader on pronunciation adaptation * 2015-2019 #### TAO CSR: Task adaptation and optimization for continuous speech recognition * Swiss Technology and Innovation Committee * 2011-2012 # Supervisions #### Current * Hichem Ammar Khodja (PhD candidate, since 2022, with Quentin Brabant, Frédéric Béchet and Alexis Nasr) * Loïc Fosse (PhD candidate, since 2023, with Géraldine Damnati, Benoît Favre, Frédéric Béchet) * Abderrahmane Said aït gueni (MSc Intern, 2024, with Quentin Brabant, Hichem Ammar Khodha) #### Past * H. Ambre Ayats (research intern, 2017) * Thimotée Bachy (MSc Intern, 2022, with Quentin Brabant) * Alexis Blandin (MSc intern, 2018-2019, with Delphine Battistelli) * Charlotte Bourgoin (MSc intern, 2018, with Delphine Battistelli) * Inès Dabbebi (MSc intern, 2015, with Nicolas Béchet) * Nazanin Dehghani (postdoctoral researcher, 2019-2021, with Jonathan Chevelu) * Quentin Di-Fant (engineer, 2018-2020, with Damien Lolive) * Aline Étienne (Msc Intern + PhD candidate, 2018-2023, with Delphine Battistelli) * Cédric Fayet (postdoctoral researcher, 2019-2020, with Damien Lolive and Arnaud Delhay) * Benoît Fournier (research intern, 2017) * Simon Giddings (engineer, 2019-2021, with Damien Lolive) * Hassan Hajipoor (engineer, 2019-2021, with Damien Lolive) * Somayeh Jafaritazehjani (PhD candidate, 2018-2023, with Damien Lolive and John D. Kelleher) * Henri Lasselin (MSc intern, 2017-2018) * Pascal Lintanf (linguistic expert, 2020-2021, with Damien Lolive) * Jade Mekki (PhD candidate + research intern, 2018-2022, with Nicolas Béchet and Delphine Battistelli) * Antoine Perquin (PhD candidate + MSc intern, 2017-2021, with Damien Lolive and Laurent Amsaleg) * Raheel Qader (PhD candidate, 2014-2017, with Damien Lolive and Pascale Sébillot) * Md Rashedur Rahman (postdoctoral researcher, 2020-2021, with Nicolas Béchet) * Aghilas Sini (postdoctoral researcher, 2020-2021, with Damien Lolive) * Waseem Safi (postdoctoral researcher, 2018-2019, with Damien Lolive and Arnaud Delhay) * Marie Tahon (postdoc researcher, 2015-2017, with Damien Lolive) * Gaëlle Vidal (engineer, 2018-2021, with Damien Lolive) # Teaching (2007-2024) * **Deep Learning** (M.Eng. & M.Sc.) * **Speech processing** (M.Sc.) * **Artificial Intelligence** (M.Eng.) * **Distributed algorithmics** (M.Eng. & M.Sc.) * Java, object-oriented programming (B.Sc & M.Eng.) * Graph theory (M.Eng.) * Algorithmics (M.Eng.) * Unix and operating systems (M.Eng.) * Databases (B.Sc.) * Data structures (B.Sc.) * Symbolic data mining (M.Eng.) * Introduction to algorithmics and functional programming with Scheme (B.Sc.)

Research domains

Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI] Computation and Language [cs.CL]

Skills

Natural language processing Language modeling Question answering Dialogue

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Repérage et caractérisation automatique des émotions dans des textes : traiter aussi leurs modes d'expression indirects.

Aline Étienne , Delphine Battistelli , Gwénolé Lecorvé
TALN (Traitement automatique du langage naturel), Jul 2024, Toulouse, France
Conference papers hal-04774672v1
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Emotion Identification for French in Written Texts: Considering Modes of Emotion Expression as a Step Towards Text Complexity Analysis

Aline Étienne , Delphine Battistelli , Gwénolé Lecorvé
14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis. ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), Aug 2024, Bangkok, Thailand
Conference papers hal-04718946v1
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Une chaîne de traitements pour prédire et appréhender la complexité des textes pour enfants d'un point de vue linguistique et psycho-linguistique.

Delphine Battistelli , Aline Etienne , Rashedur Rahman , Charles Teissèdre , Gwénolé Lecorvé
Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2022), Jun 2022, Avignon, France. pp.236-246
Conference papers hal-03701501v1
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TREMoLo-Tweets: a Multi-Label Corpus of French Tweets for Language Register Characterization

Jade Mekki , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Delphine Battistelli , Nicolas Béchet
RANLP 2021 - Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Sep 2021, Varna, Bulgaria
Conference papers hal-03331738v1
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TREMoLo : un corpus multi-étiquettes de tweets en français pour la caractérisation des registres de langue

Jade Mekki , Delphine Battistelli , Nicolas Béchet , Gwénolé Lecorvé
Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, 2021, Lille, France. pp.237-245
Conference papers hal-03265873v1
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Caractérisation de registres de langue par extraction de motifs séquentiels émergents

Jade Mekki , Nicolas Béchet , Delphine Battistelli , Gwénolé Lecorvé
JADT 2020 : 15èmes Journées Internationales d'Analyse statistique des Données Textuelles, Jun 2020, Toulouse, France
Conference papers hal-03078450v1
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Age Recommendation for Texts

Alexis Blandin , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Delphine Battistelli , Aline Étienne
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), May 2020, Marseille, France
Conference papers hal-02868118v1
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Mama/Papa, Is this Text for Me ?

Rashedur Rahman , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Aline Étienne , Delphine Battistelli , Nicolas Béchet
International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Dec 2020, Virtuel, Spain. pp.6296-6301, ⟨10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.554⟩
Conference papers hal-03112352v1
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Style versus Content: A distinction without a (learnable) difference?

Somayeh Jafaritazehjani , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Damien Lolive , John D Kelleher
International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Dec 2020, Virtual, Spain
Conference papers hal-03112354v1
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Recommandation d'âge pour des textes

Alexis Blandin , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Delphine Battistelli , Aline Étienne
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 2 : Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, 2020, Nancy, France. pp.164-171
Conference papers hal-02784764v3
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L’expression des émotions dans les textes pour enfants : constitution d’un corpus annoté

Aline Étienne , Delphine Battistelli , Gwénolé Lecorvé
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 2 : Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, Jun 2020, Nancy, France. pp.205-212
Conference papers hal-02784769v3
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FlexEval, création de sites web légers pour des campagnes de tests perceptifs multimédias

Cédric Fayet , Alexis Blond , Grégoire Coulombel , Claude Simon , Damien Lolive
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, 2020, Nancy, France. pp.22-25
Conference papers hal-02768500v4
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Évaluation objective de plongements pour la synthèse de parole guidée par réseaux de neurones

Antoine Perquin , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Damien Lolive , Laurent Amsaleg
Traitement automatique du langage naturel, Jul 2019, Toulouse, France
Conference papers hal-02419483v1
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Towards the Automatic Processing of Language Registers: Semi-supervisedly Built Corpus and Classifier for French

Gwénolé Lecorvé , H. Ambre Ayats , Benoît Fournier , Jade Mekki , Jonathan Chevelu
International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing), Apr 2019, La Rochelle, France. pp.480-492, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-24337-0_34⟩
Conference papers hal-02064694v1
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Identification de descripteurs pour la caractérisation de registres

Jade Mekki , Delphine Battistelli , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Nicolas Béchet
Rencontre des jeunes chercheurs en traitement automatique du langage naturel et recherche d'information (CORIA-TALN-RJC), May 2018, Rennes, France
Conference papers hal-02002612v1
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Disfluency Insertion for Spontaneous TTS: Formalization and Proof of Concept

Raheel Qader , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Damien Lolive , Pascale Sébillot
SLSP 2018 - 6th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, Oct 2018, Mons, Belgium. pp.1-12, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-00810-9_4⟩
Conference papers hal-01840798v1
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The IRISA Text-To-Speech System for the Blizzard Challenge 2018

Pierre Alain , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Damien Lolive , Antoine Perquin
Blizzard Challenge Workshop, Sep 2018, Hyderabad, India
Conference papers hal-01998037v1
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Phone-Level Embeddings for Unit Selection Speech Synthesis

Antoine Perquin , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Damien Lolive , Laurent Amsaleg
SLSP 2018 - 6th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, Oct 2018, Mons, Belgium. pp.21-31, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-00810-9_3⟩
Conference papers hal-01840812v1
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Construction conjointe d'un corpus et d'un classifieur pour les registres de langue en français

Gwénolé Lecorvé , H. Ambre Ayats , Benoît Fournier , Jade Mekki , Jonathan Chevelu
Traitement automatique du langage naturel (TALN), May 2018, Rennes, France. pp.143-156
Conference papers hal-02002601v1
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Ajout automatique de disfluences pour la synthèse de la parole spontanée : formalisation et preuve de concept

Raheel Qader , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Damien Lolive , Pascale Sébillot
Traitement automatique du langage naturel (TALN), Jun 2017, Orléans, France
Conference papers hal-01532031v2
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Statistical Pronunciation Adaptation for Spontaneous Speech Synthesis

Raheel Qader , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Damien Lolive , Marie Tahon , Pascale Sébillot
Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD), Aug 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
Conference papers hal-01532035v1
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Perception of expressivity in TTS: linguistics, phonetics or prosody?

Marie Tahon , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Damien Lolive , Raheel Qader
Statistical Language and Speech Processing, Oct 2017, Le Mans, France. pp.262-274, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-68456-7_22⟩
Conference papers hal-01623916v3
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The IRISA Text-To-Speech System for the Blizzard Challenge 2017

Damien Lolive , Pierre Alain , Nelly Barbot , Jonathan Chevelu , Gwénolé Lecorvé
Blizzard Challenge, Aug 2017, Stockholm, Sweden
Conference papers hal-01662361v1
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Phonétisation statistique adaptable d'énoncés pour le français

Gwénolé Lecorvé , Damien Lolive
Journées d'Études sur la Parole, Jul 2016, Paris, France
Conference papers hal-01321358v1
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Improving TTS with corpus-specific pronunciation adaptation

Marie Tahon , Raheel Qader , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Damien Lolive
Interspeech, Sep 2016, San Francisco, United States
Conference papers hal-01338111v1
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Adaptation de la prononciation pour la synthèse de la parole spontanée en utilisant des informations linguistiques

Raheel Qader , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Damien Lolive , Pascale Sébillot
Journées d'Études sur la Parole, Jul 2016, Paris, France
Conference papers hal-01321361v1

Optimal feature set and minimal training size for pronunciation adaptation in TTS

Marie Tahon , Raheel Qader , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Damien Lolive
International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP), Oct 2016, Pilsen, Czech Republic
Conference papers hal-01338853v1
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The IRISA Text-To-Speech System for the Blizzard Challenge 2016

Pierre Alain , Jonathan Chevelu , David Guennec , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Damien Lolive
Blizzard Challenge 2016 workshop, Sep 2016, Cupertino, United States
Conference papers hal-01375897v1

The IRISA Text-To-Speech System for the Blizzard Challenge 2015

Pierre Alain , Jonathan Chevelu , David Guennec , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Damien Lolive
Blizzard Challenge 2015 Workshop, Sep 2015, Berlin, Germany. 4 p., 2 columns
Conference papers hal-01196168v1
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Adaptive Statistical Utterance Phonetization for French

Gwénolé Lecorvé , Damien Lolive
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Apr 2015, Brisbane, Australia. 5 p., 2 columns
Conference papers hal-01109757v1
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Probabilistic Speaker Pronunciation Adaptation for Spontaneous Speech Synthesis Using Linguistic Features

Raheel Qader , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Damien Lolive , Pascale Sébillot
International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP), Nov 2015, Budapest, Hungary. pp.229-241
Conference papers hal-01181192v1

ROOTS : un outil pour manipuler facilement, efficacement et avec cohérence des corpus annotés de séquences

Jonathan Chevelu , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Damien Lolive
Journées d'Etude sur la Parole (JEP), Jun 2014, Le Mans, France
Conference papers hal-00975897v1

ROOTS: a toolkit for easy, fast and consistent processing of large sequential annotated data collections

Jonathan Chevelu , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Damien Lolive
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), May 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland
Conference papers hal-00974628v1

Conversion of Recurrent Neural Network Language Models to Weighted Finite State Transducers for Automatic Speech Recognition

Gwénolé Lecorvé , Petr Motlicek
Interspeech, Sep 2012, Portland, United States. pp.131-134
Conference papers hal-00976410v1

MediaParl: Bilingual mixed language accented speech database

D. Imseng , H. Bourlard , H. Caesar , P.N. Garner , Gwénolé Lecorvé
SLT - IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, Dec 2012, Miami, United States. pp.263-268
Conference papers hal-00976401v1

Impact du degré de supervision sur l'adaptation à un domaine d'un modèle de langage à partir du Web

Gwénolé Lecorvé , John Dines , Thomas Hain , Petr Motlicek
JEP-TALN-RECITAL - Conférence conjointe, Jun 2012, Grenoble, France. pp.193-200
Conference papers hal-00976405v1

Supervised and unsupervised Web-based language model domain adaptation

Gwénolé Lecorvé , John Dines , Thomas Hain , Petr Motlicek
Interspeech, Sep 2012, Portand, United States. pp.131-134
Conference papers hal-00976407v1
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Automatically Finding Semantically Consistent N-grams to Add New Words in LVCSR Systems

Gwénolé Lecorvé , Guillaume Gravier , Pascale Sébillot
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP, May 2011, Prague, Czech Republic. 4 p., 2 columns
Conference papers hal-00645223v1
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L'adaptation thématique d'un modèle de langue fait-elle apparaître des mots thématiques?

Gwénolé Lécorvé , Guillaume Gravier , Pascale Sébillot
Journées d'Étude sur la Parole, May 2010, Mons, Belgium
Conference papers inria-00555850v1
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Constraint selection for topic-based MDI adaptation of language models

Gwénolé Lecorvé , Guillaume Gravier , Pascale Sébillot
10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech'09, Sep 2009, Brighton, United Kingdom. pp.368--371
Conference papers hal-00760610v1
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Toward the Integration of Natural Language Processing and Automatic Speech Recognition: Using Morpho-Syntax and Pragmatics for Transcription

Stéphane Huet , Gwénolé Lecorvé , Guillaume Gravier , Pascale Sébillot
Petros Maragos, Alexandros Potamianos, Patrick Gros. Multimodal Processing and Interaction: Audio, Video, Text, Springer US, pp.201-218, 2008, 978-0-387-76316-3. ⟨10.1007/978-0-387-76316-3_9⟩
Book sections hal-02021921v1
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Traitement automatique du style dans le langage naturel : quelques contributions et perspectives

Gwénolé Lecorvé
Informatique et langage [cs.CL]. Université de Rennes 1, 2020
Habilitation à diriger des recherches tel-03756346v1