I am a 1st grade researcher within the CNRS in France, working in the MLIA team of the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR) located in Sorbonne Université.

Interests
  • Representing text with neural networks
  • Building user models (for activities like search)
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Extraction
  • Text Generation
Education
  • Research Direction Habilitation (HDR), 2020

    Sorbonne Université

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2003

    Université Paris 6

  • Master in Applied Mathematics (year 1) / Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (year 2), 1999

    Université Paris 6

  • BSc in Mathematics applied to Social Sciences, 1997

    Université Paris 5

  • BSc in Psychology, 1997

    Université Paris 5

📚 My Research
I am a researcher in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. Lately, I am particularly interested in controlled text generation, dialogue systems for information access and understanding better transformer architectures.
Featured Publications
Recent Publications
(2024). Which Neurons Matter in IR? Applying Integrated Gradients-based Methods to Understand Cross-Encoders.
(2024). Learning Relational Decomposition of Queries for Question Answering from Tables. ACL 2024.
(2024). Towards Effective and Efficient Sparse Neural Information Retrieval. ACM Transactions on Information Systems.
(2024). What Makes Multimodal In-Context Learning Work?.
(2023). Neural ranking model for generating sparse representations for information retrieval.