Papers by Pascale Sébillot
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
As the amount of news information available online grows, media professionals are in need of adva... more As the amount of news information available online grows, media professionals are in need of advanced tools to explore the information surrounding speci c events before writing their own piece of news, e.g., adding context and insight. While many tools exist to extract information from large datasets, they do not o er an easy way to gain insight from a news collection by browsing, going from article to article and viewing unaltered original content. Such browsing tools require the creation of rich underlying structures such as graph representations. ese representations can be further enhanced by typing links that connect nodes, in order to inform the user on the nature of their relation. In this article, we introduce an e cient way to generate links between news items in order to obtain an easily navigable graph, and enrich this graph by automatically typing created links. User evaluations are conducted on real world data in order to assess for the interest of both the graph representation and link typing in a press reviewing task, showing a signi cant improvement compared to classical search engines. CCS CONCEPTS •Information systems →Nearest-neighbor search; Recommender systems; •Human-centered computing →Hypertext / hypermedia;
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jun 26, 2017
Cet article présente un travail exploratoire sur l'ajout automatique de disfluences, c'est-à-dire... more Cet article présente un travail exploratoire sur l'ajout automatique de disfluences, c'est-à-dire de pauses, de répétitions et de révisions, dans les énoncés en entrée d'un système de synthèse de la parole. L'objectif est de conférer aux signaux ainsi synthétisés un caractère plus spontané et expressif. Pour cela, nous présentons une formalisation novatrice du processus de production de disfluences à travers un mécanisme de composition de ces disfluences. Cette formalisation se distingue notamment des approches visant la détection ou le nettoyage de disfluences dans des transcriptions, ou de celles en synthèse de la parole qui ne s'intéressent qu'au seul ajout de pauses. Nous présentons une première implémentation de notre processus fondée sur des champs aléatoires conditionnels et des modèles de langage, puis conduisons des évaluations objectives et perceptives. Celles-ci nous permettent de conclure à la fonctionnalité de notre proposition et d'en discuter les pistes principales d'amélioration.
International audienceCette communication a pour but de présenter une expérience d'annotation... more International audienceCette communication a pour but de présenter une expérience d'annotation collaborative d'expériences de lecture menée avec des étudiants dans le cadre du projet READ-IT. Au cours des dernières décennies, les connaissances sur l'histoire des pratiques de lecture ont considérablement augmenté au sujet des usages et des habitudes mais des questions fondamentales demeurent, telles que le "pourquoi" et le "comment" on lit. Grâce à l'exploration de sources numériques à la recherche de témoignages d'expériences de lecture, le projet READ-IT (Reading Europe Advanced Data Investigation Tool, https://readit-project.eu) viseà mieux comprendre ces phénomènes. Ce projet financé par le Joint Programming Initiative for Cultural Heritage (2018-2021) associe 5 partenaires de 4 pays (France, Royaume-Uni, Pays-Bas, République Tchèque)
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2020
Collective entity linking is a core natural language processing task, which consists in jointly i... more Collective entity linking is a core natural language processing task, which consists in jointly identifying the entities of a knowledge base (KB) that are mentioned in a text exploiting existing relations between entities within the KB. State-of-the-art methods typically combine local scores accounting for the similarity between mentions and entities, with a global score measuring the coherence of the set of selected entities. The latter relies on the structure of a KB: the hyperlink graph of Wikipedia in most cases or the graph of an RDF KB, e.g., BaseKB or Yago, to benefit from the precise semantics of relationships between entities. In this paper, we devise a novel RDF-based entity relatedness measure for global scores with important properties: (i) it has a clear semantics, (ii) it can be calculated at reasonable computational cost, and (iii) it accounts for the transitive aspects of entity relatedness through existing (bounded length) property paths between entities in an RDF KB. Further, we experimentally show on the TAC-KBP2017 dataset, both with BaseKB and Yago, that it provides significant improvement over state-of-the-art entity relatedness measures for the collective entity linking task.
2021 20th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2021
Attention maps in neural models for NLP are appealing to explain the decision made by a model, ho... more Attention maps in neural models for NLP are appealing to explain the decision made by a model, hopefully emphasizing words that justify the decision. While many empirical studies hint that attention maps can provide such justification from the analysis of sound examples, only a few assess the plausibility of explanations based on attention maps, i.e., the usefulness of attention maps for humans to understand the decision. These studies furthermore focus on text classification. In this paper, we report on a preliminary assessment of attention maps in a sentence comparison task, namely natural language inference. We compare the cross-attention weights between two RNN encoders with human-based and heuristic-based annotations on the eSNLI corpus. We show that the heuristic reasonably correlates with human annotations and can thus facilitate evaluation of plausible explanations in sentence comparison tasks. Raw attention weights however remain only loosely related to a plausible explanation.
Statistical Language and Speech Processing, 2018
This paper presents an exploratory work to automatically insert disfluencies in text-to-speech (T... more This paper presents an exploratory work to automatically insert disfluencies in text-to-speech (TTS) systems. The objective is to make TTS more spontaneous and expressive. To achieve this, we propose to focus on the linguistic level of speech through the insertion of pauses, repetitions and revisions. We formalize the problem as a theoretical process, where transformations are iteratively composed. This is a novel contribution since most of the previous work either focus on the detection or cleaning of linguistic disfluencies in speech transcripts, or solely concentrate on acoustic phenomena in TTS, especially pauses. We present a first implementation of the proposed process using conditional random fields and language models. The objective and perceptual evalation conducted on an English corpus of spontaneous speech show that our proposition is effective to generate disfluencies, and highlights perspectives for future improvements.
De nombreuses methodes d’extraction et de classification de relations ont ete proposees et testee... more De nombreuses methodes d’extraction et de classification de relations ont ete proposees et testees sur des donnees de reference. Cependant, dans des donnees reelles, le nombre de relations potentielles est enorme et les heuristiques souvent utilisees pour distinguer de vraies relations de co-occurrences fortuites ne detectent pas les signaux faibles pourtant importants. Dans cet article, nous etudions l’apport d’un modele de detection de relations, identifiant si un couple d’entites dans une phrase exprime ou non une relation, en tant qu’etape preliminaire a la classification des relations. Notre modele s’appuie sur le plus court chemin de dependances entre deux entites, modelise par un LSTM et combine avec les types des entites. Sur la tâche de detection de relations, nous obtenons de meilleurs resultats qu’un modele etat de l’art pour la classification de relations, avec une robustesse accrue aux relations inedites. Nous montrons aussi qu’une detection binaire en amont d’un modele...
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A probabilistic segment model combining lexical cohesion and disruption for topic segmentation Id... more A probabilistic segment model combining lexical cohesion and disruption for topic segmentation Identifying topical structure in any text-like data is a challenging task. Most existing techniques rely either on maximizing a measure of the lexical cohesion or on detecting lexical disruptions. A novel method combining the two criteria so as to obtain the best trade-off between cohesion and disruption is proposed in this paper. A new statistical model is defined, based on the work of Isahara and Utiyama (2001), maintaining the properties of domain independence and limited a priori of the latter. Evaluations are performed both on written texts and on automatic transcripts of TV shows, the latter not respecting the norms of written texts, thus increasing the difficulty of the task. Experimental results demonstrate the relevance of combining lexical cohesion and disrupture. MOTS-CLÉS : segmentation thématique, cohésion lexicale, rupture de cohésion, journaux télévisés.
Dans cet article, nous evaluons, a travers son interet pour le resume automatique et la detection... more Dans cet article, nous evaluons, a travers son interet pour le resume automatique et la detection d'ancres dans des videos, le potentiel d'une nouvelle structure thematique extraite de donnees textuelles, composee d'une hierarchie de fragments thematiquement focalises. Cette structure est produite par un algorithme exploitant les distributions temporelles d'apparition des mots dans les textes en se fondant sur une analyse de salves lexicales. La hierarchie obtenue a pour objet de filtrer le contenu non crucial et de ne conserver que l'information saillante des textes, a differents niveaux de detail. Nous montrons qu'elle permet d'ameliorer la production de resumes ou au moins de maintenir les resultats de l'etat de l'art, tandis que pour la detection d'ancres, elle nous conduit a la meilleure precision dans le contexte de la tâche Search and Anchoring in Video Archives a MediaEval. Les experiences sont realisees sur du texte ecrit et sur un co...
Taking into account in one same information retrieval system several linguistic indexes encoding ... more Taking into account in one same information retrieval system several linguistic indexes encoding morphological, syntactic, and semantic information seems a good idea to better grasp the semantic contents of large unstructured text collections and thus to increase performances of such a system. Therefore the problem raised is of knowing how to automatically and efficiently combine those different information in order to optimize their exploitations. To this end, we propose an original machine learning based method that is able to determine relevant documents in a collection for a given query, from their positions within the result lists obtained from each individual linguistic index, while automatically adapting its behavior to the characteristics of the query. The different experiments that are presented here prove the interest of our fusion method that merges the result lists, which offers more balanced precision-recall compromises and consequently obtains more stable results than ...
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Nous présentons une typologie de liens pour un corpus multimédia ancré dans le domaine journalist... more Nous présentons une typologie de liens pour un corpus multimédia ancré dans le domaine journalistique. Bien que plusieurs typologies aient été créées et utilisées par la communauté, aucune ne permet de répondre aux enjeux de taille et de variété soulevés par l’utilisation d’un corpus large comprenant des textes, des vidéos, ou des émissions radiophoniques. Nous proposons donc une nouvelle typologie, première étape visant à la création et la catégorisation automatique de liens entre des fragments de documents afin de proposer de nouveaux modes de navigation au sein d’un grand corpus. Plusieurs exemples d’instanciation de la typologie sont présentés afin d’illustrer son intérêt.
This paper presents the runs that were submitted to the TRECVid Challenge 2016 for the Video Hype... more This paper presents the runs that were submitted to the TRECVid Challenge 2016 for the Video Hyperlinking task. The task aims at proposing a set of video segments, called targets, to complement a query video segment defined as anchor. The 2016 edition of the task encouraged participants to use multiple modalities. In this context, we chose to submit four runs in order to assess the pros and cons of using two modalities instead of a single one and how crossmodality differs from multimodality in terms of relevance. The crossmodal run performed best and obtained the best precision at rank 5 among participants.
This paper investigates the potential added-value of a combination of different kinds of linguist... more This paper investigates the potential added-value of a combination of different kinds of linguistic information (i.e. information that belongs to morphological, syntactic and semantic levels of language). In particular, it aims at determining whether those various kinds of knowledge, when integrated within a single information retrieval system, have separately the same impact on its overall performance, or whether some degree of correlation exists between them, therefore evaluating whether they are either complementary or redundant for finding relevant documents. The interest of morphological and semantic information, and their combinations, stands out from the described experiments. MOTS-CLES : recherche d’information, traitement automatique des langues, couplage d’informations morphologiques, syntaxiques et semantiques, analyse de correlations
RESUME. Le calcul de distances entre representations textuelles est au cœur de nombreuses applica... more RESUME. Le calcul de distances entre representations textuelles est au cœur de nombreuses applications du Traitement Automatique des Langues. Les approches standard initiallement developpees pour la recherche d’information sont alors le plus souvent utilisees. Dans la plupart des cas, il est donc adopte une description sac-de-mots (ou sac-d’attributs) avec des ponderations de type TF-IDF ou des variantes, une representation vectorielle et des fonctions classiques de similarite comme le cosinus. Dans ce papier, nous nous interessons a l’une de ces tâches, a savoir le clustering semantique d’entites extraites d’un corpus. Nous defendons l’idee que pour ce type de tâches, il est possible d’utiliser des representations et des mesures de similarites plus adaptees que celles usuellement employees. Plus precisement, nous explorons l’utilisation de representations alternatives des entites appelees sacs-de-vecteurs ou sacs-de-sacs-de-mots. Dans ce modele, chaque entite est definie non pas pa...
Cet article presente une nouvelle methode d'adaptation de la prononciation dont le but est de... more Cet article presente une nouvelle methode d'adaptation de la prononciation dont le but est de reproduire le style spontane. Il s'agit d'une tâche-cle en synthese de la parole car elle permet d'apporter de l'expressivite aux signaux produits, ouvrant ainsi la voie a de nouvelles applications. La force de la methode proposee est de ne s'appuyer que sur des informations linguistiques et de considerer un cadre probabiliste pour ce faire, precisement les champs aleatoires conditionnels. Dans cet article, nous etudions tout d'abord la pertinence d'un ensemble d'informations pour l'adaptation, puis nous combinons les informations les plus pertinentes lors d'experiences finales. Les evaluations de la methode sur un corpus de parole conversationnelle en anglais montrent que les prononciations adaptees refletent significativement mieux un style spontane que les prononciations canoniques. ABSTRACT Pronunciation adaptation for spontaneous speech synth...
Proceedings of the Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Methods and Applications, 2021
Relation extraction is a subtask of natural language processing that has seen many improvements i... more Relation extraction is a subtask of natural language processing that has seen many improvements in recent years, with the advent of complex pre-trained architectures. Many of these state-of-the-art approaches are tested against benchmarks with labelled sentences containing tagged entities, and require important pretraining and fine-tuning on task-specific data. However, in a real use-case scenario such as in a newspaper company mostly dedicated to local information, relations are of varied, highly specific type, with virtually no annotated data for such relations, and many entities co-occur in a sentence without being related. We question the use of supervised state-of-the-art models in such a context, where resources such as time, computing power and human annotators are limited. To adapt to these constraints, we experiment with an active-learning based relation extraction pipeline, consisting of a binary LSTM-based lightweight model for detecting the relations that do exist, and a state-of-the-art model for relation classification. We compare several choices for classification models in this scenario, from basic word embedding averaging, to graph neural networks and Bert-based ones, as well as several active learning acquisition strategies, in order to find the most costefficient yet accurate approach in our French largest daily newspaper company's use case.
Interspeech 2009, 2009
This paper presents an unsupervised topic-based language model adaptation method which specialize... more This paper presents an unsupervised topic-based language model adaptation method which specializes the standard minimum information discrimination approach by identifying and combining topic-specific features. By acquiring a topic terminology from a thematically coherent corpus, language model adaptation is restrained to the sole probability re-estimation of n-grams ending with some topic-specific words, keeping other probabilities untouched. Experiments are carried out on a large set of spoken documents about various topics. Results show significant perplexity and recognition improvements which outperform results of classical adaptation techniques.
Interspeech 2007, 2007
We study the use of morphosyntactic knowledge to process Nbest lists. We propose a new score func... more We study the use of morphosyntactic knowledge to process Nbest lists. We propose a new score function that combines the parts of speech (POS), language model, and acoustic scores at the sentence level. Experimental results, obtained for French broadcast news transcription, show a significant improvement of the word error rate with various decoding criteria commonly used in speech recognition. Interestingly, we observed more grammatical transcriptions, which translates into a better sentence error rate. Finally, we show that POS knowledge also improves posterior based confidence measures.
Intelligent Data Analysis, 2005
We present an unsupervised method for the generation from a textual corpus of sets of keywords, t... more We present an unsupervised method for the generation from a textual corpus of sets of keywords, that is, words whose occurrences in a text are strongly connected with the presence of a given topic. Each of these classes is associated with one of the main topics of the corpus, and can be used to detect the presence of that topic in any of its paragraphs, by a simple keyword co-occurrence criterion. The classes are extracted from the textual data in a fully automatic way, without requiring any a priori linguistic knowledge or making any assumptions about the topics to search for. The algorithms we have developed allow us to yield satisfactory and directly usable results despite the amount of noise inherent in textual data. That goal is reached thanks to a combination of several data analysis techniques. On a corpus of archives from the French monthly newspaper Le Monde Diplomatique, we obtain 40 classes of about 30 words each that accurately characterize precise topics, and allow us to detect their occurrences with a precision and recall of 85 % and 65 % respectively.
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