Students

Current PhD Students

• Yifei Song (2025 -- ):   Exploring Reinforcement Learning for Multilingual Text Generation
  Joint Supervision with Albert Gatt.
  PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France). 
• Alejandra Lorenzo (2024 -- ):   Information Extraction for Oncology
  Joint Supervision with Adrien Coulet.
  PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France). 

Past PhD Students

• Anna Nikiforovskaia (2022 --  2026):   Parsing into and Generating from RDF Graphs
  PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France). 
• William Soto (2021 --  2025):   Multilingual Graph-to-Text Generation and Evaluation
  Joint Supervision with Yannick Parmentier
  PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France). 
• Kelvin Han (2020 --  2024):   Generating and answering questions across text and knowledge graphs
  Joint Supervision with Thiago Castro-Ferreira, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
  PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France). 
• 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). 
• Juliette Faille (2020 --  2023):   Explainable NLG
  Joint Supervision with Albert Gatt, Malta University
  PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France). 
• Liam Cripwell (2020 --  2023):   Controllable and Document-level Text Simplification
  Joint Supervision with Joël Legrand
  PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France). 
• 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). 
• 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.
• 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
• Emilie Colin (2017 -- 2020  ):   Génération automatique d'exercices de grammaire
  PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France). 
  Now Data scientist at Partners Finances
• 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
• Bikash Gyawali (2012 -- 2016 ):   Domain Specific Surface Realisation
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France). 
Now Data Scientist at Hull University Keynes, UK
• Shashi Narayan (2011 -- 2014):   Generating and Simplifying Sentences
PhD in Computer Science. Université de Lorraine (France). 
Now at Google London, UK  
• 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
• 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

• Kelvin Han (2020): Generating Questions from RDF Data. Master TAL, Nancy.
• Amin Sleimi (2016): Deep learning and Surface Realisation. Master Science Cognitive, Nancy.
• Rania Mohamed (2016): Content Selection and Generation from the Semantic Web. Master Science Cognitive, Nancy.
• Wei Qiu (2012): Generating Video Descriptions. Master "Language and Communication Technology", Saarbrücken/Nancy.
• Natalia Korgacheva (2012): Generating from Ontologies. Master Sciences Cognitives, Spécialisation "Traitement Automatique des Langues", Nancy.
• Georgi Boychev (2012): Predicting the object form in Koalib. Master "Language and Communication Technology", Groningen/Nancy.
• 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).