Ziqian Peng (October 2023–present). PhD funded by the MaTOS ANR
project (recruited at ISIR, CNRS). Machine translation of scientific documents. Co-supervised with François Yvon (CNRS).
Malik Marmonier (May 2024–present). Translating with large language models without parallel data for low-resource languages (TraLaLaM project). Co-supervised with Benoît Sagot.
Matthieu Futeral-Peter (October 2021–July 2025). PhD funded by Inria
and PR[AI]RIE. Multimodal Machine Translation. Co-supervised with with Ivan Laptev, Benoît Sagot and Cordelia Schmid. Matthieu is currently working at Mistral AI.
Oriane Nédey (December 2023–September 2024). Data collection and translation models for a regional language of France (COLaF project). Oriane is currently one of my PhD students.
Seth Aycock (August 2023–October 2023). Domain adaptation for neural machine translation in low-resource settings. Seth is currently a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam.
Niyati Bafna (October 2022–June 2023). Linguistically inspired language models for closely related languages. Co-supervised with Benoît Sagot, Josef van Genabith and Cristina España-Bonet. Niyati is currently a PhD student at John Hopkins University.
Jesujoba Alabi (February 2022–June 2022). Domain adaptation in NMT. Jesujoba is currently a PhD student at the Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science.
Thibault Charmet (February 2021–January 2022). Automatic tools for improving jurisprudence consistency, Co-supervised with Benoît Sagot and in collaboration with the Cour de Cassation.
Interns
Camille Rey (September 2021–June 2022). Master 2 student, INALCO. Contrastive training for NMT models for lexical disambiguation. Co-supervised with Benoît Sagot.
Sonal Sannigrahi (End June 2021–August 2021). Intern, École Polytechnique
Investigating the effect of input representations on language sharing in multilingual models.
Matthieu Futeral-Peter (May 2021–October 2021). Master 2 intern, ENSAE and ENS Paris- Saclay. Exploration of multilingual and multimodal word embeddings. Co-supervised with Benoît Sagot, Cordelia Schmid and Ivan Laptev.
Quentin Burthier (Septembre 2020–January 2021). Master 2 student, ENS Paris-Saclay. Machine Translation of Noisy Texts. Co-supervised with Djamé Seddah.
Ashwani Tanwar (April–August 2020). MSC thesis, University of Edinburgh
Improving Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation of Related Languages by Transfer Learning. Co-supervised with Alexandra Birch.
Farid Arthaud (February–June 2020). Master 1 (ENS, Paris), visiting student at the University of Edinburgh. Continuous learning for Neural Machine Translation from Human Post-edits. Co-supervised with Alexandra Birch.
Radina Dobreva (March–August 2019). MSC thesis, University of Edinburgh
Integrating document structure information into Neural Machine Translation using cache-based models. Co-supervised with Annie Louis and Bonnie Webber.
Jie Zhou (March–August 2019). MSC thesis, University of Edinburgh. Exploiting Predictable Document Substructure in Neural Machine Translation. Co-supervised with Annie Louis and Bonnie Webber.