Papers by Pierrette Bouillon
Standard German Subtitling of Swiss German TV content: the PASSAGE Project (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | In Switzerland, two thirds of the population speak Swiss German, a primarily spoken language with no standardised written form. |
| Approach: | They propose to combine a speech recognition system with an intralingual machine translation system to automate the subtitling process. |
| Outcome: | The proposed systems improve the quality of the standardized Swiss German subtitles but are not capable of producing correct Standard German. |
Jargon: A Suite of Language Models and Evaluation Tasks for French Specialized Domains (2024.lrec-main)
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Vincent Segonne, Aidan Mannion, Laura Cristina Alonzo Canul, Alexandre Daniel Audibert, Xingyu Liu, Cécile Macaire, Adrien Pupier, Yongxin Zhou, Mathilde Aguiar, Felix E. Herron, Magali Norré, Massih R Amini, Pierrette Bouillon, Iris Eshkol-Taravella, Emmanuelle Esperança-Rodier, Thomas François, Lorraine Goeuriot, Jérôme Goulian, Mathieu Lafourcade, Benjamin Lecouteux, François Portet, Fabien Ringeval, Vincent Vandeghinste, Maximin Coavoux, Marco Dinarelli, Didier Schwab
| Challenge: | Pretrained language models are the de facto backbone of most state-of-the-art NLP systems. |
| Approach: | They propose a family of domain-specific pretrained PLMs for French focusing on three important domains: transcribed speech, medicine, and law. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models perform better on transcribed speech, medicine, and law domains than state-of-the-art models on a diverse set of tasks and datasets. |
Normalizing without Modernizing: Keeping Historical Wordforms of Middle French while Reducing Spelling Variants (2024.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | a new method to normalize orthographic variations of historical documents is needed for digital humanities and diachronic studies. |
| Approach: | They propose to normalize orthographic wordforms found in Middle French archives . authors say it improves accuracy and accuracy over a strong baseline . |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods normalize orthographic variations of historical documents without modernizing them. |
A Concept Based Approach for Translation of Medical Dialogues into Pictographs (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Pictographs have been found to improve patient comprehension of medical information or instructions. |
| Approach: | They propose a system that automatically translates French speech into pictographs . the system is based on a semantic gloss that serves as pivot between spontaneous language and pictograms based in the ontology of the UMLS . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system achieves an F0.5 score on unseen data, with 71% of glosses transmitting intended meaning. |