Papers by Nicolas Hernandez
A Multimodal Educational Corpus of Oral Courses: Annotation, Analysis and Case Study (2020.lrec-1)
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Salima Mdhaffar, Yannick Estève, Antoine Laurent, Nicolas Hernandez, Richard Dufour, Delphine Charlet, Geraldine Damnati, Solen Quiniou, Nathalie Camelin
| Challenge: | a corpus of spontaneous speech is being developed for educational use . the dataset will be freely available to the research community . |
| Approach: | They propose to use a French speech educational corpus to explore synchronous speech transcription and application in teaching situations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus includes 10 hours of lectures, manually transcribed and segmented . the dataset will be freely available to the research community . |
CASIMIR: A Corpus of Scientific Articles Enhanced with Multiple Author-Integrated Revisions (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | CASIMIR dataset contains multiple revisions of 15,646 scientific articles . authors question the relevance of current evaluation methods for text revision . |
| Approach: | They propose a textual resource on the revision step of the writing process of scientific articles. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset contains the multiple revised versions of 15,646 scientific articles from OpenReview, along with their peer reviews. |
Coupling Local Context and Global Semantic Prototypes via a Hierarchical Architecture for Rhetorical Roles Labeling (2026.eacl-long)
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Anas Belfathi, Nicolas Hernandez, Monceaux Laura, Warren Bonnard, Mary Catherine Lavissière, Christine Jacquin, Richard Dufour
| Challenge: | Hierarchical models capture local dependencies but lack global, corpus-level representations. |
| Approach: | They propose two prototype-based methods that integrate local context with global representations to address this limitation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods integrate local context with global representations. |
Identifying Reliable Evaluation Metrics for Scientific Text Revision (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Effective revision is a critical step in scientific writing, ensuring clarity, coherence, and adherence to academic standards. |
| Approach: | They propose to use ROUGE and BERTScore to assess revision quality . they also examine LLM-as-a-judge approaches to assess instruction-following revisions . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the accuracy of revision tasks with and without a gold reference. |
PyRATA, Python Rule-based feAture sTructure Analysis (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | a new Python module supports rules-based analysis on structured data . the module is available under the Apache V2 license . |
| Approach: | They propose a Python module which supports rules-based analysis on structured data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed module supports rules-based analysis on structured data. |
Improving Accessibility of SCOTUS Opinions: A Benchmark Study and a New Dataset for Generic Heading Prediction and Specific Heading Generation (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | SCOTUS opinions are notoriously long and use specialised language, making them laborious to read and understand. |
| Approach: | They propose generic and specific headings for each section to be trained automatically . they compare the performance of different systems trained for each subtask . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can achieve a score of 0.90% in predicting generic headings . the proposed system also achieves similar scores in generating specific headings. |
A Multi-Domain Framework for Textual Similarity. A Case Study on Question-to-Question and Question-Answering Similarity Tasks (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Community Question Answering websites are becoming popular and useful source of information for users. |
| Approach: | They propose to use community question answering forum to detect similar questions . they use question-answering similarity task to provide correct answers . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework provides the first framework on the evaluation of similar questions and question-answering detection on a multi-domain corpora. |