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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 2d

The UTTER EU project is wrapping up!
At NAVER LABS Europe, we’re proud to have contributed with models like mHuBERT & SPIRE as well as datasets such as ELITR-Bench for long-context LLM evaluation.
Discover more in our latest post 👇
europe.naverlabs.com/blog/multimo...

Multimodal, multilingual and trustworthy AI models and resources for XR

Models, data, resources and publications as part of the EU project UTTER (2022-2025).

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 26d

Ma chorale se produit le WE des 27-28 Septembre à la salle Edmond Vigne de Fontaine dans l’agglomération grenobloise. Occasion de venir écouter et voir du chant 🎤mis en scène et chorégraphie 🕺. QR code sur le flyer.

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Sep 3

Applications are now open. Deadline: October 12th !

mgalle.bsky.social @mgalle.bsky.social · Aug 1

If you are leaving #acl2025 thinking "I wish for a week of time to think what's next", we have you covered:

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Announcing ALPS 2025, our 5th NLP winter school in 🇫🇷 We guarantee great scientific discussions, a fantastic scenery and great speakers:

Advanced Language Processing Winter School – ALPS, 29th March – 3th April 2026

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Sep 1

Très heureux d’intervenir à l’école d’été #ETAL2025 à Roscoff (en terre bretonne 🌊) pour un cours d’introduction aux modèles multimodaux pour l’interaction orale.
📚 Matériel : github.com/besacier/ETA...

GitHub - besacier/ETAL2025: Modèles Multimodaux pour l’Interaction Orale

Modèles Multimodaux pour l’Interaction Orale. Contribute to besacier/ETAL2025 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Aug 26

Je découvre à l'instant que la vuelta (tour d’espagne) passe devant chez moi aujourd’hui à seyssins, près de grenoble… lors d’une étape en provenance... d’italie 🤨

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mgalle.bsky.social @mgalle.bsky.social · Aug 1

If you are leaving #acl2025 thinking "I wish for a week of time to think what's next", we have you covered:

alps.imag.fr

Announcing ALPS 2025, our 5th NLP winter school in 🇫🇷 We guarantee great scientific discussions, a fantastic scenery and great speakers:

Advanced Language Processing Winter School – ALPS, 29th March – 3th April 2026

alps.imag.fr

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Marcely Zanon Boito @marcelyzboito.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚀 A powerful and easy-to-build constrained speech LLM model. For multilingual SQA, we beat Microsoft-Phi and all unconstrained submissions on the SHORT track at IWSLT 2025 instruction-following track!

Presented this Thursday at ACL 2025 by myself and @beomseok-lee.bsky.social 🧵👇

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Jun 8

Sam Soul sera à Laval-en-Belledonne pour la fête de la musique le 21.6 🎷🎷🎷

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · May 22

As a scientist it should feel like an accomplishment when domain you’ve contributed to nears resolution after years of collective effort. So why many react with frustration refusing to let go of a field that’s essentially become engineering instead of moving on to new challenges?

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Vert, le média 💚 @vert.eco · May 21

🛥️ Hier soir, en marge du festival de Cannes, Lauren Sánchez a reçu un prix pour son «plaidoyer pour la justice climatique»… qu’elle est venue récupérer à bord du yacht de 127m de long qu’elle partage avec son fiancé, le patron d'Amazon Jeff Bezos.

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À Cannes, la fiancée de Jeff Bezos Lauren Sánchez débarque de son yacht et reçoit un prix pour son supposé engagement écolo

Cannes ça pêche. À l’occasion d’un étonnant gala organisé près de la Croisette, Lauren Sánchez a été récompensée pour sa prétendue action en faveur de «la justice climatique». De quoi faire oublier so...

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · May 10

Sam Soul fête ses 10 ans et vous invite à un apéro-concert le samedi 24.5 à 18h au lycée horticole (!) de St-Ismier 🌳 Entrée gratuite!

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mgalle.bsky.social @mgalle.bsky.social · Apr 4

And we are done! Many tired eyes and lots of insights in today's project presentation (so much stuff done in 5 days!!) + insights from @dirkhovy.bsky.social

#ALPS2025

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Apr 3

#ALPS2025 lecture #5 was given by Alexandra Birch (University of Edinburgh). Title: “Reasoning and Knowledge in Multilingual Models”!!

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Apr 2

#ALPS2025 lecture #4: Dzmitry Bahdanau (ServiceNow Research). Agents and Reasoning !

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Apr 1

Yes, although it is April, #ALPS2025 is a truly WINTER school with snow activities etc. ❄️🎿🌨️

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Apr 1

Wonderful lecture #3 at #ALPS2025 on Algorithms for text generation by François Yvon who introduced us to the large space of decoding algorithms!

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Mar 31

We end day1 of #ALPS2025 with Marzieh Fadaee (Cohere For AI): “Languages as Windows to Human Knowledge: Building Better Language Models Through Global Understanding”

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Mar 31

This year at #ALPS2025 we innovate with group mini projects proposed by organisers or participants themselves!

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Mar 31

#ALPS2025 first talk: Kyunghyun Cho himself! “Causality gets help from deep learning “

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Mar 31

#ALPS2025 day1 kicks off with a poster session!

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Mar 28

Still possible to join this shared task !

Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Mar 3

Join AutoMin 2025 - 3d Run of the Automatic Minuting Shared Task at #SIGDIAL2025 to push the limits of LLMs in
📌 Meeting Summarization
📌 Meeting Question Answering
📅 Workshop: Aug. 28, 2025
ufal.github.io/automin-2025/
#NLP #LLMs #AI #AutoMin

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Shared Task on Automatic Minuting

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Mar 28

ALPS 2025, the #NLP winter school in the Alps, kicks off in 2 days! 50 participants from around the world 🌍 7 top speakers, mini-projects, and 3 poster sessions ! Plus: snowy, screen-free fun in Aussois❄️ #ALPS2025 Web: https:/alps.imag.fr

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Mar 7

Interesting to see the 20y-old Fisher dataset from 2004 making a strong comeback and being used to build dual-channel conversational speech models !

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Mar 3

Join AutoMin 2025 - 3d Run of the Automatic Minuting Shared Task at #SIGDIAL2025 to push the limits of LLMs in
📌 Meeting Summarization
📌 Meeting Question Answering
📅 Workshop: Aug. 28, 2025
ufal.github.io/automin-2025/
#NLP #LLMs #AI #AutoMin

AutoMin 2025 | Home

Shared Task on Automatic Minuting

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IRI-Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial @iri-robotics.bsky.social · Feb 26

🤝 Supported by 10 beneficiaries: Uni Degli Studi Napoli Federico II, Uni de Extremadura, @csic.es, @uni-hamburg.de, Ensta Paris, @palrobotics.bsky.social, @naverlabseurope.bsky.social, Furhat Robotics, Uni de León, @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social

✍️ Info: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/317628

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15 PhD positions as part of the SWEET project – a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Industrial Doctoral Network

Applications are invited for 15 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) positions to be funded by the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie European Training Network on “Social aWareness for sErvice roboTs” (SWEET) within the Hor...

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