Nombre de documents
107
Laurent Prévot
Research Interests
Dialogue, Conversation, Discourse, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Language Resources, Digital Humanities.
Summary
Laurent Prévot is a professor in Language Sciences at Aix Marseille Université and the director of Laboratoire Parole et Langage. He is also a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). His specialties are linguistics (in particular semantic and pragmatic questions) and Natural Language Processing. He obtained his PhD (2004) in Computer Science from Toulouse 3 University and worked as post-doc in linguistic and interdisciplinary labs in Italy (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Trento), France (Syntax and Semantics Research Team CLLE-ERSS, Toulouse 2) and Taiwan (Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica). His recent projects are dealing in particular with conversational feedback, interpersonal dynamics in conversation as well as neural bases of conversation. At the methodological level, he tends to use NLP and speech processing techniques on conversational corpora and exploit the resulting material in collaboration with colleagues from various disciplines (linguistics, machine learning, neurosience, dialogue systems). Recently he has devoted his research time in developping and applying data-intensive and / or experimental approaches to conversational language. He is also developping a keen interest for Digital Humanities, in particular in applying NLP and machine learning techniques to large and heterogeneous historical documents.
Projects coordination
- IUF project [2015-2020] Formal and Computational Interactional Linguistics, the case of feedback
- Amidex International Variamu [2014-2015] Variations in Action: a Multilingual approach
- ANR JCJC CoFee [2012-2015] Conversational Feedback
- Erasmus Mundus Action 2 MULTI 1&2 [2010-2015] Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
- PHC ORCHID [2011-2012] Construction of large-scale French-Mandarin multimodal corpora
and comparison of unit production and perception in spoken discourse
Project Participation (selection)
- ERC [2018-2023] Elites, Networks and Power in modern China (PI:Christian Henriot, IRASIA)
- Amidex Interdiscplinarity [2018-2021] PhysSocial: Physiology of Social Interactions with natural and artificial agents (PI : Thierry Chaminade, INT)
- ANR Copains [2018-2021] Cognitive Planning in Persuasive Multimodal Communication (PI : Emiliano Lorini, IRIT)
- PEPS BRAIN-IHM [2018-2019] BRAIN-IHM : Bases cérébrales de l’Interaction Humain-Machine : étude des feedbacks produits par un Agent Conversationnel Animé en réalité virtuelle" (PI: Magalie Ochs, LIS)
- PEPS RobotTrio [2018-2019] Recueil, modélisation et évaluation d’interactions sociales entre un robot et des partenaires humains dans une tâche d’interview et de remplissage de formulaire numérique (PI: Frédéric Elisei, GIPSA Lab)
- ANR-MRSEI CoBra [2016-2017] Conversational Brains (PI: Noël Nguyen, LPL)
- ANR Datcha [2015-2018] Knowledge Extraction from operator-customer conversations in call centers (PI: Frédéric Bechet, Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale)
- COST TextLink [2014-2019] Structuring Discourse in Multilingual Europe (PI: Liesbeth Degand, Université catholique de Louvain
- ANR OTIM [2009-2011] Outils pour le Traitement de l’Information Multimodale (PI: Philippe Blache, LPL)
- ANR "Corpus" ANNODIS [2008-2010] Annotation discursive (PI: Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley, Université de Toulouse)
- ANR-NSC M3 [2008-2010] Model and measurement of meaning: A cross-lingual and multi-disciplinary approach of French and Mandarin verbs based on distance in paradigmatic graphs (PIs: Hintat Cheung et Bruno Gaume)
Evaluation Activities
- CIFRE PhD Evaluator (’Training through Research’ Industrial Conventions) [2018-]
- HCERES (French High Council for Research and Higher Education Evaluation) Committee president (2016).
- Expert ANR (French National Research Agency) for ’Content and Interactions" and "Young Researchers" calls.
- Expert for various national research agencies : FNRS (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgique), FNS (Fonds National Suisse), NRF (South Africa’s National Research Foundation), RGC (Research Grants Council, Hong Kong), Rannis (Icelandic Research Fund)
- Reviewer for Journals: Discourse Processes, Language Resource and Evaluation, Lingua, Applied Ontology.
- External member of recruiting committees in Language Sciences (Paris 13, Paris 7) and Computer Science (Marseille)
- Scientific Committee dof Conferences: Empirical Methods in NLP (2018), Ass. for Computational Linguistics (2014-2018), COmputational LINGuistics 2008-2016, SEMantics and Pragmatics of DIALogue (2013-2014), Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (2007-2012), Pacific Asia Conference on Language Information and Computation (2006-2018), Language Resource and Evaluation Conference (2008-2018), Workshop on Linguistic Complexity and NLP (2018), European Ass. Computational Linguistics (2009).
Administrative Responsabilities
Scientific Animation
- [2018] Program Co-chair and Local Organizer of The 22nd Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL)
- [2014] Organization Committee member of TALN 2014 conference
- [2012-2014] Program Manager for Humanities and Social Sciences, France-Taiwan Frontiers of Science
- [2008,2010] Co-organizer of Workshops Logics and Semantics of Natural Language
PhD Supervision
- Mary Amoyal [2018-] L'impact du Common Ground sur le fonctionnement dans la conversation à travers une analyse des sourires lors des transitions thématiques (co-supervised with Béatrice Priego-Valverde) (ED356 Grant)
- Simone Fuscone [2017-] Linguistic Underpinnings of Conversational Interpersonal Dynamics, COFUND, European Grant (co-supervised with Benoît Favre)
- Anaïg Pénault [2013-2018] Les énoncés non-phrastiques en français oral une analyse intégrant les niveaux syntaxique, sémantique et interactionnel (ED356 Grant)
- Klim Peshkov [Abandonned] L'interface discours/prosodie en parole conversationnelle: description, analyse et application à la
segmentation automatique par apprentissage supervisé
Other supervision
- Océane Granier [2018-] Experimental Linguistics,
- Zhang Zhong-Pei [2016-2017] Analysis of the temporal aspects of turn-taking in polylogue
- Matthieu Stali [2016] Les marqueurs discursifs genre et du coup, une étude de corpus
- Léo Baiocchi [2014-2015] Filled pauses in Interaction
- Giulia Rambelli [2014] Porting distributional Semantics resources from Italian to French (Erasmus+, Università di Pisa)
- Anaïg Pénault [2013] Tense semantics in spoken narrative
- Emilien Gorène [2013] NLP of pathological speech : the case of schizophrenia
- Klim Peshkov [2012] Linguistic Units in Conversational Speech
- Tatsuya Watanabe [2012] TextGrid2XML Formatting according to Typed Feature Structures