FrenLyS: A Tool for the Automatic Simplification of French General Language Texts

no code implementations • RANLP 2021 • Eva Rolin, Quentin Langlois, Patrick Watrin, Thomas François

Lexical simplification (LS) aims at replacing words considered complex in a sentence by simpler equivalents.

Lexical Simplification Sentence

Is Attention Explanation? An Introduction to the Debate

no code implementations • ACL 2022 • Adrien Bibal, Rémi Cardon, David Alfter, Rodrigo Wilkens, Xiaoou Wang, Thomas François, Patrick Watrin

In this paper, we provide a clear overview of the insights on the debate by critically confronting works from these different areas.

L’Attention est-elle de l’Explication ? Une Introduction au Débat (Is Attention Explanation ? An Introduction to the Debate )

no code implementations • JEP/TALN/RECITAL 2022 • Adrien Bibal, Remi Cardon, David Alfter, Rodrigo Wilkens, Xiaoou Wang, Thomas François, Patrick Watrin

Nous présentons un résumé en français et un résumé en anglais de l’article Is Attention Explanation ?

CENTAL at SemEval-2016 Task 12: a linguistically fed CRF model for medical and temporal information extraction

no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2016 • Charlotte Hansart, Damien De Meyere, Patrick Watrin, Andr{\'e} Bittar, C{\'e}drick Fairon

Part-Of-Speech Tagging Temporal Information Extraction

FLELex: a graded lexical resource for French foreign learners

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Thomas Fran{\c{c}}ois, N{\`u}ria Gala, Patrick Watrin, C{\'e}drick Fairon

In this paper we present FLELex, the first graded lexicon for French as a foreign language (FFL) that reports word frequencies by difficulty level (according to the CEFR scale).

Language Acquisition Optical Character Recognition (OCR) +1

Discriminative Strategies to Integrate Multiword Expression Recognition and Parsing

no code implementations • ACL 2012 • Matthieu Constant, Anthony Sigogne, Patrick Watrin

Constituency Parsing Dependency Parsing

La reconnaissance des mots compos\'es \`a l'\'epreuve de l'analyse syntaxique et vice-versa : \'evaluation de deux strat\'egies discriminantes (Recognition of Compound Words Tested against Parsing and Vice-versa : Evaluation of Two Discriminative Approaches) [in French]

no code implementations • JEPTALNRECITAL 2012 • Matthieu Constant, Anthony Sigogne, Patrick Watrin

Extraction of unmarked quotations in Newspapers

no code implementations • LREC 2012 • St{\'e}phanie Weiser, Patrick Watrin

The focus is the extraction and annotation of unmarked quotation sentences.

Opinion Mining Sentence +1