Talks

  • Keynote at Journée numérique et santé, Les usages de l'IA générative dans les établissements de santé, 04 June 2026, Nancy. IA générative, LLMs et traitement automatique des données médicales
  • French-Danish Workshop on "Reasoning in the Embedding Space", 19-20 January 2026, Copenhagen, Denmark. Neural Embeddings for Texts and Knowledge Graphs
  • Journée "Visite des Mines", 16 December 2025, Nancy. Traitement Automatique des Langues au LORIA LLMs, Apprentissage et Applications
  • Keynote at ENACT Day, 12 December 2025, Nancy. Semantically Consistent Conditional Text Generation
  • Invited Talk at SOPHIA Summit 2025
    • 19-21 November 2025, Mouratoglou Hotel. Verbalising Knowledge Graphs: Models, Evaluation and Generalisation
  • Invited Talk à l'Ecole Thématique interdisciplinaire "Modèles de langue pour le traitement sémantique et l’intégration de connaissances et données en agriculture, alimentation et environnement"(ETLMIC 2025)"
    • 29 septembre-2 octobre 2025, Hameau de l'Etoile. Verbalising Knowledge Graphs: Models, Multilinguality and Evaluation
  • Keynote 33rd International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR 2025), 3 July 2025, Biarritz. Case Based Reasoning and Neural Text Generation
  • Seminar MosAIk Team, LORIA, 10 juin 2025, Nancy. IA générative : bénéfices et défis pour le traitement automatique des langues
  • Invited Talk at Colloque conjoint FRQ-CNRS, 3 June 2025, Montréal, Québec. Grands Modèles de Langues (LLMs) et Traitement automatique des langues. Extraire et synthétiser l'information, quel apport pour les humanités ?
  • Invited Talk at Seminar of the Data Analytics and Machine Learning pole, 28 avril 2025, Paris. Text and Knowledge Graphs: Similarity and Generation
  • Invited Talk at Rendez-vous de l'informatique : Plan National de Formation et journée NSI-SNT, 2 avril 2025, Nancy. IA générative et traitement automatique des langues : enjeux, risques et opportunités pour l'éducation
  • Invited Talk at Séminaire IA générative: promesses et défis, 12 mars 2025, Paris. IA générative : bénéfices et défis pour le traitement automatique des langues
  • Invited Talk at MIAI-DAYS 2024, 17-18 June 2024, Grenoble. Verbalising Graphs into High-, Medium
  • and Low-Resource Languages
  • Invited Lecture at AnnoDemo, 6 June 2024, Banyuls. D'où viennent les LLM ?

    M&eacutethodes neuronales pour une g&eacuten&eacuteration de texte conditionnelle, multilingue et inform&eacutee

  • Talk at 3rd Workshop on Tools and Resources for REAding DIfficulties (READI), 20 May 2024, Torino, Italy. Evaluating Document Simplification: On the Importance of Separately Assessing Simplicity and Meaning Preservation.
  • Invited Talk at LIFT ILFC (Interactions between Formal and Computational Linguistics) Montly Online Seminar, 24 April 2024, Online. Simplifying Documents: Planning helps and Context matters.
  • Invited Talk at The fourth Advanced Language Processing School, 03 April 2024, Aussois, France. Generating Text from various Sources into multiple Languages.
  • Invited Talk at "Semantics and AI Workshop", 27 February 2024, Groningen University, The Netherlands. Document Simplification: Controlling Simplification and Modeling Context
  • Invited Talk at "Journées pour les prépas MPSI et MP2I Poincaré", 24 January 2024, LORIA, Nancy, France. Générer du texte avec des réseaux de neurones
  • Séminaire Collège de France, 19 january 2024, Génération à partir de connaissances.
  • Invited Talk Club learning de l'Anvie animé par Cécile Dejoux, 21 November 2023, Interagir avec ChatGPT.
  • Talk at Journées scientifiques du GdR LIFT, 20-21 November 2023, Nancy, France. LIFT 2017-2023.
  • Invited Talk Journées sur la recherche en Traitement Automatique des Langues pour la Défense, 13 November 2023, Rennes, France. Génération de texte à partir de textes et de graphes.
  • Invited Talk CLASP Seminar, 25 October 2023, Gothenburg, Sweden. Simplifying Documents.
  • Invited Talk JSALT 2023, 20 July 2023, Le Mans, France. Analysing Conditional Neural Models.
  • Keynote NALOMA 23: Natural Logic meets Machine Learning 2023, 10 June 2023, Nancy, France.
    Analyser les modèles neuronaux.
  • Keynote, 30e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (CORIA-TALN 2023),6 June 2023, Paris, France. Analyser les modèles neuronaux.
  • Invited talk Simplifying Sentences and Documents. 15 February 2023, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Invited talk Journée OLKi "Langue et IA citoyenne": Interfacer génération automatique de textes et extraction d'information. 16 décembre 2022, LORIA, Nancy.
  • Keynote at Workhop ICCBR-ATA "Analogies: from Theory to Applications" , 12 September 2022, Nancy. Neural Approaches to Analogy.
  • Invited lecture at la 16ème école d'été de Peyresq en traitement du signal et des images, 26 June
  • 2 July 2022, Peyresq. Neural NLG: Pitfalls and Promises.
  • Talk at the NL4XAI Spring School, Nancy, 19 April 2022, LORIA, Nancy. Retrieval-Augmented Generation of Long Form Text.
  • Invited lecture at Cognition and Language Seminar, Lorraine University, Nancy, 1 December 2021, Lorraine University, Nancy. Generating Text.
  • Invited lecture at Doctorales IA Nancy, 24 November 2021, LORIA, Nancy. Generating Text.
  • Invited lecture at ENS Lyon, 25 May 2021, Online. Neural Approaches to Natural Language Generation .
  • Invited Lecture at ALPS 2021: the Advanced Language Processing Winter School, 17-22 January 2021, Naver Labs, Grenoble, Online. Neural Approaches to Natural Language Generation
  • Keynote Talk at INLG'20: The 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG), 15-18 December, 2020, Dublin Online. Generating from Abstract Meaning Representations into 21 Languages
  • Keynote Talk at WNGT'20: The 4th Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation (WNGT), 10 juillet, Virtual ACL. Generating Long Form Text from Long Form Multi-Document Input
  • Keynote Talk at NLDB'20: The 25th International Conference on Natural Language \& Information Systems, 24 june 2020, Virtual Conference. Generating Long Form Text from Long Form Multi-Document Input.
  • Keynote Talk at MSR'19: Second Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realization, 3 November, 2019, Hong Kong. Neural NLG: Encoding, Scaling and Generalising
  • Keynote Talk at SSW10: The 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, 20-22 September, 2010, Vienna, Austria. Creating Text
  • Keynote Talk at GaC 2018 : Grammar and Corpora, 15 November 2018, Paris, France. The Interplay between Grammar and Generation
  • Keynote Talk at CNL 2018 : Sixth International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language, 27 August 2018, Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland. Generating Natural Language from OWL and RDF Data: Grammar-based, Statistical and Neural Approaches
  • Tutorial presented at AIPHES, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, September 14th, 2018, Darmstadt (Germany). Deep Learning Approaches to Text Production
  • Tutorial presented at NAACL, June 1st, 2018, New Orleans (USA). Deep Learning Approaches to Text Production
  • Invited talk at Google Zurich , May 11th, 2017, Zurich (Switzerland). Creating Benchmarks for Microplanning.
  • Invited talk at Amazon , June 8th, 2017, Cambridge (UK)
  • Invited Seminar at XRCE Grenoble, October 20th, 2015, Grenoble (France). Making Choices: A Grammar-Based Statistical Approach to Micro-Planning
  • Invited ILLC/HCRC Seminar, November 24th, 2015, University of Edinburgh (UK). Making Choices: A Grammar-Based Statistical Approach to Micro-Planning
  • Invited Seminar at a Mini-Symposium on Natural Language Generation, December 10th, 2015, University of Groningen (The Netherlands). Making Choices: A Grammar-Based Statistical Approach to Micro-Planning
  • Invited Seminar at the U.S. National Library of Medicine, December 15th, 2015, Bethesda, Maryland (U.S.A). Making Choices: A Grammar-Based Statistical Approach to Micro-Planning
  • Keynote Talk at the 2nd International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2014 , Octobre 14th, 2014, Grenoble (France). Syntax and Natural Language Generation.
  • Invited Talk at Melbourne University (Australia) , March 27, 2014. Generating from Knowledge Bases (1)
    • Generating from Knowledge Bases (2)
  • Invited Talk, March 26, 2014, Melbourne University (Australia). Optimising Surface Realisation and Improving Gramamrs using Error Mining
  • Invited Talk, March 24, 2014, Melbourne University (Australia). Surface Realisation using Tree Adjoining Grammar. Application to Computer Aided Language Learning.
  • Invited Talk, February 2014, KU Leuven (Belgium). Generating Sentences from Data
  • Invited Talk, February 2014, ITEC Research Seminar, KU Leuven (Belgium). Automatically Generated Grammar Exercises and Dialogs for Language Learning
  • Invited Talk, January 2014, Xerox Research Center Europe, Grenoble (France) . Grammar Based Generation: Algorithms, Error Mining and Applications
  • Oral Presentation at COLING 2012, Mumbai (India). Structure-Driven Lexicalist Generation
  • Invited Talk, October 2012, LIFO, Orleans University, (France). Improving Computational Grammars
  • Keynote Talk at Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN), June 2011, Montpellier (France). Sentence Generation: Input, Algorithms and Applications
  • Invited Tutorial, June 2011, Banff (Canada). Natural Language Generation meets the Semantic Web Knowledge Capture (K-CAP)
  • Invited Tutorial at the LAICS Summer School (Language, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Natural Language Processing applications) Bangkok, (Thailand) , November 2010. Computer Aided Language Learning
  • Invited Tutorial at the LAICS Summer School (Language, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Natural Language Processing applications) Bangkok, (Thailand) , November 2009. Paraphrase Acquisition
  • Invited tutorial at the LAICS Summer School (Language, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Natural Language Processing applications) Bangkok, (Thailand) , November 2006. Tree Adjoining Grammars: Specficiation, Semantic Construction and Surface Realisation
  • Invited tutorial at the LAICS Summer School (Language, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Natural Language Processing applications) Bangkok, (Thailand) , November 2006. Natural Language Generation