The SEME (semantics and information extraction) team is interested in the problems of accessing the meaning contained in language productions, for the purposes of analysis, comprehension, modeling or production. We apply our research to the written modality, without restriction on the original medium (text produced in electronic format, or from a speech transcription, or from optical recognition) and work on productions in open or specialized domains such as the medical field. We use both linguistic and statistical or neural learning approaches. We are particularly interested in the latter type of approach, and in the environmental costs they generate in automatic language processing, both during production and during use.
Information extraction
Corpus and modeling
Sémantics, poly-lexical expressions
The team comprises 10 permanent members (CNRS researchers, lecturers at Université Paris-Saclay, ENSIIE, and Université Sorbonne Paris-Nord), 14 PhD students, and 3 post-docs or fixed-term contracts. We maintain links with industry (theses under CIFRE contracts, research projects) and regularly organize scientific events (TALN conference, scientific workshops, etc.).
Clément Morand, Aina Rasoldier, Paul Gay. Not up to its critical perspective on digitalization: A Descriptive Analysis of How Sustainability is Approached in the ICT4S Conference. ICT4S, Jun 2026, Berne, France. ⟨hal-05615744⟩
Fanny Ducel, Lucie Digoin-Caprros, Ibrahim Al Kotob, Shayan Ahmed Shariff, Binesh Arakkal Remesh, et al.. Les benchmarks sont une source de biais des LLM : MMLU, CommonSenseQA et MGSM au microscope. TALN 2026 – 33e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, Jun 2026, Nantes, France. ⟨hal-05618509⟩
Louis Estève, Christophe Servan, Thomas Lavergne, Agata Savary. A Diversity Diet for a Healthier Model: A Case Study of French ModernBERT. 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), Jul 2026, San Diego, United States. ⟨hal-05599374⟩
Virgile Barthet. Extraction d’information et classification de textes cliniques pour la prédiction du risque de décès. Intelligence artificielle [cs.AIArtificial Intelligence]. Université Paris-Saclay, 2026. Français. ⟨NNT : 2026UPASG019⟩. ⟨tel-05599487⟩
Luc Pommeret, Thomas Gerald, Christophe Servan, Sahar Ghannay, Patrick Paroubek, et al.. Étude des propositionneurs multilingues : formalisation, évaluation et interprétabilité. CORIA-TALN, ARIA; ATALA, Jun 2026, Nantes, France. ⟨hal-05597666⟩
Manon Scholivet, Agata Savary, Carlos Ramisch, Eric Bilinski, Takuya Nakamura, et al.. Edition 2.0 of the PARSEME shared task on multilingual identification and paraphrasing of multiword expressions. Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026), Mar 2026, Rabat, Morocco. pp.254-275, ⟨10.18653/v1/2026.mwe-1.33⟩. ⟨hal-05588684⟩
Jean-Luc Gauvain, Abdel Messaoudi, Holger Schwenk. Language Recognition Using Phone Lattices. International Conference on Speech and Language Processing, Oct 2004, Jeju, South Korea. pp.1283–1286. ⟨hal-01434492⟩
Luc Pommeret, Thomas Gerald, Sophie Rosset, Patrick Paroubek, Christophe Servan, et al.. Les propositions atomiques : un pont entre approches neuronales et symboliques. Journée interprétabilité, GDR TALTraitement Automatique des langues, Mar 2026, Jussieu, Paris, France. ⟨hal-05575718⟩
Luc Pommeret, Thomas Gerald, Patrick Paroubek, Sahar Ghannay, Christophe Servan, et al.. LLM-based Atomic Propositions Help Weak Extractors: Evaluation of a Propositioner for Triplet Extraction. KG-LLM@LREC – Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models, ELRA, May 2026, Palma De Majorque, Spain. ⟨hal-05572941⟩
Jean-Luc Gauvain, Gilles Adda, Lori Lamel, Fabrice Lefèvre, Holger Schwenk. Transcription de la parole conversationnelle. Revue TALTraitement Automatique des langues : traitement automatique des langues, 2005, 45 (3). ⟨hal-01434260⟩
Jean-Luc Gauvain, Gilles Adda, Martine Adda-Decker, Alexandre Allauzen, Veronique Gendner, et al.. Where are we in transcribing French broadcast news?. Eurospeech, Sep 2005, Lisbonne, Portugal. pp.1665-1668, ⟨10.21437/Interspeech.2005-544⟩. ⟨hal-01434245⟩
Hélène Bonneau-Maynard, Alexandre Allauzen, Daniel Déchelotte, Holger Schwenk. Combining Morphosyntactic Enriched Representation with n-best Reranking in Statistical Translation. HLT/NACL workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, Apr 2007, Rochester, United States. pp.65-71. ⟨hal-01434104⟩
Sophie Rosset, Delphine Tribout, Lori Lamel. Multi-level information and automatic dialog act detection in human-human spoken dialogs. Speech Communication, 2008, 50 (1), pp.1-13. ⟨10.1016/j.specom.2007.05.007⟩. ⟨halshs-00746318⟩
Nicolas Boizard, Hippolyte Gisserot-Boukhlef, Duarte M. Alves, André F T Martins, Ayoub Hammal, et al.. EuroBERT: Scaling Multilingual Encoders for European Languages. COLM 2025 – Second Conference on Language Modeling, Oct 2025, Montreal, Canada. pp.1-28. ⟨hal-05226285⟩
Pierre Lepagnol. Petits modèles génératifs en contexte industriel : Adaptation par prompting avec peu de données. Intelligence artificielle [cs.AIArtificial Intelligence]. Université Paris-Saclay, 2026. Français. ⟨NNT : 2026UPASG011⟩. ⟨tel-05572429⟩
Karin Dassas, Cyrille Bonamy, Bruno Bzeznik, Emmanuelle Frenoux, Gaël Guennebaud, et al.. Estimer l’impact carbone des activités numériques d’une unité de recherche. CNRS (EcoInfo). 2026. ⟨hal-05568070⟩
Ayoub Hammal, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Caio Corro. KAD: A Framework for Proxy-based TestDéfinition courte Lorem ipsum-time Alignment with Knapsack Approximation Deferral. EACL 2026 – 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Mar 2026, Rabat, Morocco. pp.3854-3872, ⟨10.18653/v1/2026.eacl-long.179⟩. ⟨hal-05571208⟩
Clément Morand, Jacques Combaz, Aurélie Névéol, Anne-Laure Ligozat. When rebound effect is not a side effect: analyzing sociotechnical contexts of digital technologies. 2026. ⟨hal-05566029⟩
Natalia Grabar, Cyril Grouin. Year 2021: COVID-19, Information Extraction and BERTization among the Hottest Topics in Medical Natural Language Processing. IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 2022, 31 (01), pp.254-260. ⟨10.1055/s-0042-1742547⟩. ⟨hal-03931852⟩
Pierre Lepagnol, Sahar Ghannay, Thomas Gerald, Christophe Servan, Sophie Rosset. Format Matters: A Critical Evaluation of Output Formats for Prompting LLMs in SLU and NER. The Fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), May 2026, Palma de Majorque, Spain. ⟨hal-05546569⟩
Clémentine Bleuze, Fanny Ducel, Maxime Amblard, Karën Fort. COCOA: Creation and Exploratory Investigation of a Corpus of Claims from NLP Articles. LREC 2026 – International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, ELRA Language Resources Association, May 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ⟨hal-05547842⟩
Mathilde Aguiar, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Nona Naderi. Assessing the Difficulty of Inference Types in Natural Language Inference for Clinical Trials. 2026. ⟨hal-05533706v2⟩
Juan Manuel Coria, Hervé Bredin, Sahar Ghannay, Sophie Rosset, Khaled Zaouk, et al.. Diart: A Python Library for Real-Time Speaker Diarization. Journal of Open Source Software, 2024, 9 (99), pp.5266. ⟨10.21105/joss.05266⟩. ⟨hal-05530961⟩
Clémentine Bleuze, Karën Fort, Vincent P. Martin, Aurélie Névéol. Grands modèles de langue pour la détection de pathologies psychiatriques : promesses, réalité, et enjeux. Journée d’étude “LLM@hopital”, ATALA, Mar 2026, Paris, France. ⟨hal-05532823⟩
Iskandar Boucharenc. Hierarchical Prefixes for Long Document Representations. ECIR – European Conference on Information Retrieval, Apr 2025, Lucca, Italy. pp.171-177, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-88720-8_28⟩. ⟨hal-05530637⟩
Fanny Ducel, Aurélie Névéol, Vidit Khazanchi, Loïc Leclere, Arthur Pedrini, et al.. Code-switching as a Bias Indicator in LLMs: “The consequences are not the same para nosotros”. LREC 2026 – 15th biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, May 2026, Palma De Mallorca, Spain. ⟨hal-05529786⟩
Oralie Cattan, Christophe Servan, Sophie Rosset. On the Usability of Transformers-based models for a French Question-Answering task. Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe (CIRCLE) 2022, Jul 2022, Samatan, France. ⟨hal-03701740⟩
Léa Pacini, Jérôme Dupire, Isabelle Barbet, Olivier Pons, Camille Guinaudeau, et al.. Textbook’s accessibility for children with dyspraxia and visual disability. 17th International Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe, AAATE 2023, Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe, Aug 2023, Paris, France. ⟨hal-04410340⟩
Fanny Ducel. How to define, understand and evaluate stereotypical biases in language models?. Séminaire du groupe de travail Intelligence Artificielle Sûre, Intelligible et Vérifiable (IASIV), Mar 2025, Palaiseau, France. ⟨hal-05467784⟩
Gustave Cortal. Natural language processing for subjectivity analysis in personal narratives. Computation and Language [cs.CL]. Université Paris-Saclay, 2026. English. ⟨NNT : 2026UPASG003⟩. ⟨tel-05501345⟩
Julie Halbout, Annelies Braffort, Michèle Gouiffès. Annotation automatique d’un corpus de Langue des Signes Française. Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole (RJCP), Nov 2025, Paris, France. ⟨hal-05495878⟩
Annelies Braffort, Michael Filhol, Michèle Gouiffès, Julie Halbout, Julie Lascar. Sign Language Processing with Linguistic Structure. BMVA Symposium on AIArtificial Intelligence for Sign Language Translation, Production, and Linguistics, Dec 2025, London, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-05495664⟩
Jules Françoise, Julie Lascar, Cyril Verrecchia, Sidonie Minodier, Michèle Gouiffès, et al.. LaboSignes : vers une IAIntelligence Artificielle participative pour la reconnaissance automatique de la Langue des Signes Française. Journée d’études AFIA-ATALA : Technologies linguistiques pour les langues peu dotées, Dec 2025, Paris, France. ⟨hal-05495906⟩
Idrissa Mahamoudou Dicko, Nona Naderi. Biomedical hallucination detection of LLMs using Med-HALT and HaloScope frameworks. JDSE 2025 – 10th Junior Conference on Data Sciences and Engineering Conference, Sep 2025, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. ⟨hal-05483690⟩
Philippe Boula de Mareüil, Albert Rilliard, Frédéric Vernier. Valorisation de la diversité linguistique à travers un atlas sonore. Myriam Caressa; Christophe Doubovetzky. Langue(s) et droit(s). Enjeux et paradoxes en France, L’Harmattan, pp.177-188, 2025, Logiques Juridiques, 978-2-336-55319-1. ⟨hal-05464189⟩
Natalia Grabar, Thierry Hamon, Emmanuelle Canut. Le langage simplifié pour le public FLE : des critères linguistiques à interroger. Éducation, formation et communication. L’accompagnement des publics en exil. Problèmes de langue et modalités de communication, A paraître, 2865310019. ⟨hal-05465059⟩
Anjani Dhrangadhariya, Roger Hilfiker, Karl Martin Sattelmayer, Nona Naderi, Katia Giacomino, et al.. RoBuster: A Corpus Annotated with Risk of Bias Text Spans in Randomized Controlled Trials in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation. JMIR Formative Research, 2026, 10, pp.e55127-e55127. ⟨10.2196/55127⟩. ⟨hal-05462769⟩
Fanny Ducel, Karën Fort, Aurélie Névéol. La linguistique appliquée pour une IAIntelligence Artificielle plus éthique. NéALA 2025 – Colloque sur Naturel et Artificiel en Linguistique Appliquée : une époque de paradoxes, Jul 2025, Nancy, France. ⟨hal-05457534⟩
Luciana Benotti, Fanny Ducel, Karën Fort, Guido Ivetta, Zhijing Jin, et al.. Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP: Hands-on strategies for students and researchers. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 5: Tutorial Abstracts), 2025, ⟨10.18653/v1/2025.acl-tutorials.5⟩. ⟨hal-05457524⟩
Simon Devauchelle, Albert Rilliard, David Doukhan, Lucas Ondel Yang. Variation of Perceived Voice Pitch Across Time Periods, Gender, and Age in French Media Archives. Valentina De Iacovo; Bianca Maria De Paolis; Daniela Mereu. The voice in the media and new technologies, 12 (004), Officinaventuno, pp.47-71, 2024, Studi Associazione Italiana Scienze della Voce, 978-88-97657-73-6. ⟨10.17469/O2112AISV000004⟩. ⟨hal-05450567⟩