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Pierrette Bouillon

3 accepted papers

2024

A Concept Based Approach for Translation of Medical Dialogues into Pictographs

COLING 2024main

Pictographs have been found to improve patient comprehension of medical information or instructions. However, tools to produce pictograph representations from natural language are still scarce. In this contribution we describe a system that automatically translates French speech into pictographs to…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Jargon: A Suite of Language Models and Evaluation Tasks for French Specialized Domains

COLING 2024main

Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) are the de facto backbone of most state-of-the-art NLP systems. In this paper, we introduce a family of domain-specific pretrained PLMs for French, focusing on three important domains: transcribed speech, medicine, and law. We use a transformer architecture based on…

2024

Normalizing without Modernizing: Keeping Historical Wordforms of Middle French while Reducing Spelling Variants

NAACL 2024findings

Conservation of historical documents benefits from computational methods by alleviating the manual labor related to digitization and modernization of textual content. Languages usually evolve over time and keeping historical wordforms is crucial for diachronic studies and digital humanities. However…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar