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Vincent Segonne

4 accepted papers

2024

A Comparison of Language Modeling and Translation as Multilingual Pretraining Objectives

EMNLP 2024main

Pretrained language models (PLMs) display impressive performances and have captured the attention of the NLP community.Establishing best practices in pretraining has, therefore, become a major focus of NLP research, especially since insights gained from monolingual English models may not necessarily…

2024

Can Machine Translation Bridge Multilingual Pretraining and Cross-lingual Transfer Learning?

COLING 2024main

Multilingual pretraining and fine-tuning have remarkably succeeded in various natural language processing tasks. Transferring representations from one language to another is especially crucial for cross-lingual learning. One can expect machine translation objectives to be well suited to fostering su…

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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

Limitations of Human Identification of Automatically Generated Text

COLING 2024main

Neural text generation is receiving broad attention with the publication of new tools such as ChatGPT. The main reason for that is that the achieved quality of the generated text may be attributed to a human writer by the naked eye of a human evaluator. In this paper, we propose a new corpus in Fren…