Home page of David Langlois

last update: 2011/10/27

I am an assistant professor in Informatics at Nancy University (IUFM of Lorraine)

My research is located at LORIA

See my detailed page in French here

Contact

LORIA - Equipe Parole
Campus Scientifique BP 239
54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex
Bureau C132
France

Tél : (33/0) 3 83 59 20 74   Fax : (33/0) 3 83 27 83 19

E-mail : lastname.firstname@loria.fr 

Research

My research concerns: statistical machine translation, statistical language modeling, and speech recognition

My publications :

papers in journals

• «"This sentence is wrong." Detecting errors in machine-translated sentences.», Raybaud, Sylvain; Langlois, David; Smaïli, Kamel, Machine Translation, (2011) vol. 25 num. 1 pp. 1-34 (new)
• «Mining monolingual and bilingual corpora», Latiri, Chiraz; Smaïli, Kamel; Lavecchia, Caroline; Langlois, David, Intelligent Data Analysis, (2010) vol. 14 num. 6 pp.663-682
• «Événements impossibles en modélisation stochastique du langage», Langlois, David; Brun, Armelle; Smaïli, Kamel; Haton, Jean-Paul, Traitement Automatique des Langues, (2003) vol. 44 num. 1 pp.33-61

papers in conferences

2011

• «Phrase-based machine translation based on text mining and statistical language modeling techniques», Latiri, Chiraz; Smaïli, Kamel; Lavecchia, Caroline; Nasri, Cyrine; Langlois, David, (2011) 12th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics - CICLing2011 (new)

2010

• «Similar N-Gram Language Model», Gillot, Christian; Cerisara, Christophe; Langlois, David; Haton, Jean-Paul, (2010) pp.1824-1827 INTERSPEECH 2010
• «Utilisation de graphes sémantiques pour l'extraction et la traduction des idées essentielles d'un texte», André-Lovichi, Romain; Smaïli, Kamel; Langlois, David, (2010) Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances (EGC)

2009

· «Efficient Combination of Confidence Measures for Machine Translation», Raybaud, Sylvain; Langlois, David; Smaïli, Kamel, (2009) Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2009

· «Word- and sentence-level confidence measures for machine translation», Raybaud, Sylvain; Lavecchia, Caroline; Langlois, David; Smaïli, Kamel, (2009) Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Machine Translation - EAMT 09

· «New Confidence Measures for Statistical Machine Translation», Raybaud, Sylvain; Lavecchia, Caroline; Langlois, David; Smaïli, Kamel, (2009) Proceedings of the International Conference On Agents and Artificial Intelligence  ICAART 09

2008

• «Discovering Phrases in Machine Translation by Simulated Annealing», Lavecchia, Caroline; Langlois, David; Smaïli, Kamel, (2008) pp.2354-2357 INTERSPEECH 2008 - 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (2008)
• «Phrase-Based Machine Translation based on Simulated Annealing», Lavecchia, Caroline; Langlois, David; Smaïli, Kamel, (2008) Sixth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - LREC 2008
• «Une alternative aux modèles de traduction statistique d'IBM : Les triggers inter-langues», Lavecchia, Caroline; Smaïli, Kamel; Langlois, David, (2008) 15eme conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles - TALN'08

2007

• «Improving language models by using distant information», Brun, Armelle; Langlois, David; Smaïli, Kamel, (2007) International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications - ISSPA 2007
• «Building a bilingual dictionary from movie subtitles based on inter-lingual triggers», Lavecchia, Caroline; Smaïli, Kamel; Langlois, David, (2007) Translating and the Computer
• «Using inter-lingual triggers for Machine translation», Lavecchia, Caroline; Smaïli, Kamel; Langlois, David; Haton, Jean-Paul, (2007) Eighth conference INTERSPEECH 2007
• «Building Parallel Corpora from Movies», Lavecchia, Caroline; Smaïli, Kamel; Langlois, David, (2007) The 4th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - NLPCS 2007

2006

• «Exploration et utilisation d'informations distantes dans les modèles de langage statistiques», Brun, Armelle; Langlois, David; Smaïli, Kamel, (2006) pp.425-434 13ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles - TALN'2006

2004

• «ANTS : le système de transcription automatique du Loria», Brun, Armelle; Cerisara, Christophe; Fohr, Dominique; Illina, Irina; Langlois, David; Mella, Odile; Smaïli, Kamel, (2004) 4 p Journées d'Etude sur la Parole - JEP'04
• «Experiments on Building Language Resources for Multi-Modal Dialogue Systems», Romary, Laurent; Todirascu, Amalia; Langlois, David, (2004) 4 p International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - LREC'2004
• «Statistical Feature Language Model», Smaïli, Kamel; Jamoussi, Salma; Langlois, David; Haton, Jean-Paul, (2004) 4 p 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing - ICSLP' 2004

2003

• «Efficient linear combination for distant n-gram models», Langlois, David; Smaïli, Kamel; Haton, Jean-Paul, (2003) 1 pp.409-412 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology - Eurospeech'03

2002

• «Détection de séquences par sélection de l'historique : application à la reconnaissance automatique de la parole», Langlois, David; Smaïli, Kamel; Haton, Jean-Paul, (2002) XXIVe Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole - JEP'2002
• «Retrieving phrases by selecting the history: application to Automatic Speech Recognition», Langlois, David; Smaïli, Kamel; Haton, Jean-Paul, (2002) 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing - ICSLP'2002

2001

• «Improving Statistical Language Models by Removing Impossible Events», Brun, Armelle; Langlois, David; Smaïli, Kamel; Haton, Jean-Paul, (2001). Proceedings of the International Workshop "Speech and Computer" - SPECOM 2001
• «Efficient Language Models Combination: Application to Phrase Finding», Langlois, David; Smaïli, Kamel; Haton, Jean-Paul, (2001). Proceedings of the International Workshop "Speech and Computer" - SPECOM 2001
• «A New Method Based on Context for Combining Statistical Language Models», Langlois, David; Smaïli, Kamel; Haton, Jean-Paul, (2001) pp.235-247 Third International Conference on Modeling and Using Context - CONTEXT 01

2000

• «Dealing with distant relationships in natural language modelling for automatic speech recognition», Langlois, David; Smaïli, Kamel; Haton, Jean-Paul, (2000) pp.400-405 4th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics & Informatics - SCI'2000
• «Discarding Impossible Events from Statistical Language Models», Brun, Armelle; Langlois, David; Smaïli, Kamel; Haton, Jean-Paul, (2000). International Conference on Spoken Language Processing

1999

• «A New Based Distance Language Model for a Dictation Machine: application to MAUD», Langlois, David; Smaïli, Kamel, (1999) pp.1779-1782 6th European Conference on Speech Communication & Technology - EUROSPEECH'99

Teaching

My teaching activities concern:

· Teaching for future teachers in schools : teaching with numeric tools (at IUFM of Lorraine)

· Algorithmics and complexity (at MIAGE of Nancy)

· C and algorithmics (at MIAGE of Nancy)

· Numeric tools for students (at Nancy University)