The ALMAnaCH project-team (Automatic Language Modelling and Analysis & Computational Humanities) is a pluridisciplinary team in artificial intelligence (AI) focusing on the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Digital Humanities (DH), at the crossroads between theoretical computer science, machine learning and linguistics. The team’s research covers a wide range of topics including but not limited to neural language models, machine translation, dialogue modelling, language resource development (monolingual, parallel, annotated corpora, lexicons, etc.), interactive AI, evaluation strategies, information extraction, optical character recognition and handwritten text recognition. The team handles data from varied domains, including user-generated content, biomedical data, patents, as well as historical documents. This also extends beyond text to multimodal processing involving speech and images. A transversal challenge across the team’s research is language variation in all its diversity (in terms of genre, style, register, and dialectal and diachronic variation), both as a challenge to current systems and as an object of study.

Centre(s) inria

Inria Paris Centre

Contacts

Benoit Sagot

Team leader

Julien Guieu

Team assistant

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Society & knowledge

MĂ©morial de l'Holocauste Ă  Berlin

Developing transnational Holocaust research, remembrance and education

Culture & Society

Portrait de BenoĂźt Sagot dans la cour du CollĂšge de France.

Natural language processing in focus at the CollĂšge de France

Academic partnerships

Pile de livres ouverts

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Cognition

Portrait de Rachel Bawden.

© Inria / Photo B. Fourrier

Rachel Bawden working to enhance machine translation models

Natural language processing

Photo abstraite sécurité et détection

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Data consolidation and natural language processing used in the fight against radicalisation

12 February 2021

Communication - Event

Lunettes faisant loupe sur le mot "comprendre"

© Inria / Photo B. Fourrier

Cap’FALC conference: discover the project for a digital tool designed to make information more accessible

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Centre de recherche Inria de Paris

Communication - Event

Parthenos - driving forward digital heritage

Startups

Akiani and Winespace - two Bordeaux-based start-ups supported by Inria

Cryptography

Lettre Ă©crite par Charles Quint Ă  Jean de Saint-Mauris

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BACK IN TIME: harnessing cryptography, history and AI to decipher manuscripts

EU culture - second nature for Laurent Romary

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