Current PhD Students
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Anna Nikiforovskaia
(2022 -- ):
Parsing into and Generating from RDF Graphs
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France).
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William Soto
(2021 -- ):
Long-form Conditional Text Generation for Creative Writing
Joint Supervision with Yannick Parmentier
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France).
Kelvin Han
(2020 -- ):
Generating Questions from Semantic Web Data
Joint Supervision with Thiago Castro-Ferreira, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France).
Past PhD Students
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Teven Le Scao
(2020 -- 2023):
Scaling multilingual language models under constrained data
Joint Supervision with Sasha Rush (Hugging Face and Cornell University, USA)
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France).
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Juliette Faille
(2020 -- 2023):
Explainable NLG
Joint Supervision with Albert Gatt, Malta University
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France).
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Liam Cripwell
(2020 -- 2023):
Controllable and Document-level Text Simplification
Joint Supervision with Joël Legrand
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France).
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Anna Liednikova
(2019 -- 2022):
Neural Chatbots for the Health-Domain
Joint Supervision with Philippe Jolivet
Funded by ALIAE.
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France).
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Angela Fan
(2019 -- 2021):
Long Form Text Generation with and without Retrieval
Joint Supervision with Antoine Bordes (Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research, Paris, France) and Chloé Braud (CNRS/LORIA, Nancy).
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France).
Now Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research.
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Anastasia Shimorina
(2017 -- 2021 ):
Natural Language Generation: From Data Creation to Evaluation via Modelling
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France).
Now postdoc at ORANGE
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Emilie Colin
(2017 -- 2020 ):
Génération automatique d'exercices de grammaire
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France).
Now Data scientist at Partners Finances
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Chunyang Xiao
(2014 -- 2017):
Neural-Symbolic Learning for Semantic Parsing
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France). Thèse CIFRE avec XRCE. Co-supervised with Marc Dymetman
Now Applied Scientist at Amazon, Cambridge, UK
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Bikash Gyawali
(2012 -- 2016 ):
Domain Specific Surface Realisation
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France).
Now Data Scientist at Hull University Keynes, UK
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Shashi Narayan
(2011 -- 2014):
Generating and Simplifying Sentences
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France).
Now at Google London, UK
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Laura Perez-Beltrachini
(2009 -- 2013 ):
Surface Realisation and Computer Aided Language Learning
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France).
Now Postdoc at University of Edinburgh, UK
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Ingrid Falk
(2008 -- 2012):
Large Scale Acquisition of Verb Classes for French.
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Nancy 2 (France).
- Paul Bedaride (2006 -- 2010): Rewriting and Semantic Normalisation.
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Nancy 1 (France).
Now Tech Leader/Scrum Master at DIATELIC Nancy (France)
- Marilisa Amoia (2003 -- 2008): Inference in Question Answering
PhD
in Computational Linguistics. University of Saarbrücken (Germany) and
Université de Nancy 1 (France). Joint supervision with Prof. Manfred
Pinkal.
Now at Nuance Communications, Aachen (Germany)
- Eric Kow (2004 -- 2007): Génération et sélection de paraphrases
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Nancy 1 (France).
- Yannick Parmentier (2003 -- 2007): Sémantique et Analyse syntaxique
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Nancy 1 (France).
Now Associate Lecturer at Lorraine University, Nancy (France)
- Kristina Striegnitz (2000 -- 2004): Generation and Inference
PhD in Computational Linguistics (2003 -- 2008):
University of Saarbrücken (Germany) and Université de Nancy 1
(France). Joint supervision with Prof. Manfred Pinkal and Prof.
Jean-Marie Pierrel.
Now Associate Lecturer at Union College, Schnectaday (USA)
- Hélène Manuélian (1999 -- 2003): Descriptions Définies et Démonstratives : Analyses de Corpus pour la Génération de Textes/
PhD in Linguistics. Université de Nancy 2 (France). Joint supervision with Prof. Jean-Marie Pierrel and Prof. Philippe Riley.
Now Associate Lecturer at University of Paris 11
- Andrea Kowalski (1997 -- 1998): The Semantics of Exception Phrases
PhD in Computational Linguistics. University of Saarbrücken (Germany). Joint supervision with Prof. Manfred Pinkal.
Master Students
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Kelvin Han (2020): Generating Questions from RDF Data. Master TAL, Nancy.
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Amin Sleimi (2016): Deep learning and Surface Realisation. Master Science Cognitive, Nancy.
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Rania Mohamed (2016): Content Selection and Generation from the Semantic Web. Master Science Cognitive, Nancy.
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Wei Qiu (2012): Generating Video Descriptions. Master "Language and Communication Technology", Saarbrücken/Nancy.
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Natalia Korgacheva (2012): Generating from Ontologies. Master Sciences Cognitives, Spécialisation "Traitement Automatique des Langues", Nancy.
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Georgi Boychev (2012): Predicting the object form in Koalib. Master "Language and Communication Technology", Groningen/Nancy.
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Shashi Narayan (2010): Generating from Deep and Shallow Representations. Master "Language and Communication Technology", Malta/Nancy.
- Ben Gottesman (2009): Generating examples. Master "Language and Communication Technology", Saarbrücken/Nancy.
- Corinna
Anderson (2009): Using optimality theory to constrain surface
realisation. Master in Cognitive Science, U. Nancy 2, Option "Natural
Language Processing".
- Laura Perez (2009): Using Regular Tree Grammars to reduce the search space in surface realisation. Master "Language and Communication Technology", Nancy/Bolzano. Joint supervision with Rafaella Bernardi.
- Katja Alahverdzhieva (2008): Reimplementing XTAG using XMG. Master "Language and Communication Technology", Saarbrücken/Nancy.
- Sarah Maarek (2006): Factorising trees in a TAG. MRI, Paris 7 (France).
- Paul Bedaride (2006): Description Logic and Textual Entailment Recognition. Computer Science. Université de Nancy I (France).
- Eric Kow (2004): Optimising a surface realiser. Computer Science. Université de Nancy I (France).
- Yannick Parmentier (2003): Meta-grammar and semantic construction in Tree Adjoining Grammars. Computer Science. Université de Franche Comté (France).
- Marilisa Amoia (2002): Generating definite descriptions using set constraints. Computational Linguistics. University of Saarbrücken (Germany).
- Stephan Thater (2000): Parsing and Generating with Tree Description Grammars. Computational Linguistics. University of Saarbrücken (Germany).
- Hui Xu Topic (1996): Sentence and Discourse. Computational Linguistics. University of Saarbrücken (Germany).
- Christian Weiss (1995): Focus and Word Order in German. Computational Linguistics. University of Saarbrücken (Germany).
- Siebe Bloembergen (1994): Discourse generation. Computational Linguistics. University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
- Mariet Theune (1994): Binding in implemented HPSG. Computational Linguistics. University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands).