Team
Current people
PhD students
- Jean Barré (Charcaterizing literary genres with computational methods, co-supervised with T. Conrad, ENS-PSL)
- Jeanne Bollée (Why Study Mental States? A Study of the Cultural Evolution of Interest in Interior Life through Fiction (co-supervised with M. Singh, UC Davies)
- Antoine Bourgois (Computational narratology: charcaterizing characters in French fiction)
- Pedro Cabrera Ramirez (Modelling individual and collective poetics in Fin-de-Siècle literary journals, co-supervised with J. Schuh, U. Nanterre)
- Noé Durandard (Personalization of conversational models, co-supervised with S. Hengelich/S. Dawan, TU Munich)
- Carlos Rosas (Bias and social information in LLMs, Cifre PhD with Pleias, co-supervised with B. Benbouzid)
PhD students who recently defended
- Armin Pournaki (2022-2025, , Ecole normale supérieure & U. Leipzig, co-supervised with J. Jost): Sciences Pocomputational social sciences
- Salomé Do (2019-2024, Ecole normale supérieure & Sciences Po Paris, co-supervised with J.-P. Cointet, médialab Sciences Po) : Computational methods for news framing analysis.
Post-docs
- Mingmeng Geng, NLP (influence of LLMs on writing)
- Antoine Mazières, big data, computational social science
Engineers/interns
- Maria Kirbasova (on Propp-ru)
- Marjolaine Ray (on the Medialex Project)
External collaborators
- Kirill Maslinsky (Inalco), on Propp-ru
- Astrid Chevance, on GeneAlgoPsy and NLP for Depresion Cohort analysis
Alumni
Past PhD students
- Karim Lasri (2019-2023, Ecole normale supérieure & Univ. Pisa, co-supervised with A. Lenci) : Linguistic Generalization in Transformer-Based Neural Language Models (Karim now works as a research fellow for the World Bank).
- Mylène Maignant (2018-2022, Ecole normale supérieure: Automatic analysis of the reception of contemporary English theatre through the Theater Record database (Mylène is now a consultant in AI at WenVision, a start up in Paris)
- Yuanfeng Lu (2017-2021, Ecole normale supérieure): Computational stylistics (Yuanfeng now works for a Chinese IT company)
- KyungTae Lim (2017-2020, Ecole normale supérieure): Multilingual Universal Dependency parsing (KyungTae is now an assistant professor at KAIST, Korea)
- Tian Tian (2015-2019, Université Sorbonne nouvelle — PhD initially supervised by Isabelle Tellier, until her death in 2018) Named entity recognition in noisy texts (Twitter, forums, chats) (Tian is now a postdoc at Université de Brest).
- Miquel Cornudella Gaya (2014-2017, Ecole normale supérieure, Cifre grant with Sony-CSL Paris): Modeling language evolution (Miquel works now as aa research engineer at Amazon Barcelona)
- Pablo Ruiz Fabo (2014-2017, Ecole normale supérieure): Natural language processing for digital humanities (Pablo is now an associate professor at Université de Strasbourg)
- Pierre Marchal (2010-2015, INALCO): large scale subcategorization information acquisition for Japanese (Pierre now wordks at Works Application Tokyo, Japan, and was previously at Amazon and SAP in Boston, USA)
- Elisa Omodei (2011-2014, Ecole normale supérieure): Modeling the socio-semantic dynamics of scientific communities (Elisa is now an associate professor at the Central European University, in Vienna, Austria)
- Zorana Ratkovic (2010-2014, Université Sorbonne nouvelle): Parsing for information extraction from texts (Zorana now works as a research engineer for Alan, an IT company in the Paris area)
- Mani Ezzat (2009-2013, INALCO; Cifre grant with Arisem): Automatic acquisition of relations between entities (Mani now works as a research engineer at Dassault Systems, Paris)
- Yufan Guo (2009-2013, University of Cambridge, co-supervision with Anna Korhonen; funded by Cambridge): text zoning of scientific texts (Yufan now works as a research engineer at Amazon USA)
- Cédric Messiant (2006-2010, Université Paris 13) : Automatic lexical acquisition from large corpora (Cédric now works as a research engineer at CybelAngel, a IT company in Lille, France)
- Aurélien Bossard (2006-2010, Université Paris 13): Automatic summarization (Aurélien is now an associate professor at Université Paris 8)
- Amanda Bouffier (2004–2008, Université Paris 13; national PhD grant): Discursive analysis of medical texts (Amanda now works as an artist, and occasionally an independent consultant in text mining)