Olivier Ferret

36 papers · 2002–2026 · 9 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐝 Cross-Pollinator (14) 🏃 Academic Marathon (23) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (7) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (47) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌍 Conference Polyglot (8) 🐺 Lone Wolf (9) ⚡ Prolific Year (5) 💎 Century Club (35) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (88) ❓ The Questioner (2) 🔥 Unstoppable (8)

Conferences

ACL (9) COLING (8) IJCNLP (5) EMNLP (4) NAACL (3) SEMEVAL (3) EACL (2) AAAI (1) WACV (1)

Top co-authors

Aurélie Névéol (9) Romaric Besançon (8) Xavier Tannier (7) Julien Tourille (7) Nicolas Hiebel (4) Karën Fort (4) Herve Le Borgne (3) José G. Moreno (3) Pierre Zweigenbaum (3) Thomas Lavergne (3)

Keywords

word embedding (6) named entity recognition (6) language model (4) tag descriptor (2) domain adaptation (2) text-to-image generation (2) contextualized representation (2) biomedical text (2) multilingual nlp (2) contextual embedding (2) text generation (2) synonym extraction (2) clinical case generation (2) semantic similarity (2) synthetic text generation (2) graph embedding (2) temporal relation extraction (2) extractive summarization (1) visual question answering (1) question answering (1)

Papers

SAGA: Learning Signal-Aligned Distributions for Improved Text-to-Image Generation AAAI 2026

“Women do not have heart attacks!” Gender Biases in Automatically Generated Clinical Cases in French NAACL 2025

TIAM - A Metric for Evaluating Alignment in Text-to-Image Generation WACV 2024

Using Structured Health Information for Controlled Generation of Clinical Cases in French NAACL 2024

Few-Shot Event Argument Extraction Based on a Meta-Learning Approach NAACL 2024

Multi-Level Information Retrieval Augmented Generation for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering EMNLP 2024

Hostomytho: A GWAP for Synthetic Clinical Texts Evaluation and Annotation COLING 2024

Language Models and Semantic Relations: A Dual Relationship COLING 2024

Can Synthetic Text Help Clinical Named Entity Recognition? A Study of Electronic Health Records in French EACL 2023

MEERQAT-IRIT at SemEval-2023 Task 2: Leveraging Contextualized Tag Descriptors for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition ACL 2023

MEERQAT-IRIT at SemEval-2023 Task 2: Leveraging Contextualized Tag Descriptors for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition SEMEVAL 2023

Can We Guide a Multi-Hop Reasoning Language Model to Incrementally Learn at Each Single-Hop? COLING 2022

Specializing Static and Contextual Embeddings in the Medical Domain Using Knowledge Graphs: Let’s Keep It Simple EMNLP 2022

CharacterBERT: Reconciling ELMo and BERT for Word-Level Open-Vocabulary Representations From Characters COLING 2020

Embedding Strategies for Specialized Domains: Application to Clinical Entity Recognition ACL 2019

Using pseudo-senses for improving the extraction of synonyms from word embeddings ACL 2018

Evaluation of a Sequence Tagging Tool for Biomedical Texts EMNLP 2018

LIMSI-COT at SemEval-2017 Task 12: Neural Architecture for Temporal Information Extraction from Clinical Narratives SEMEVAL 2017

Temporal information extraction from clinical text EACL 2017

Turning Distributional Thesauri into Word Vectors for Synonym Extraction and Expansion IJCNLP 2017

Taking into account Inter-sentence Similarity for Update Summarization IJCNLP 2017

Neural Architecture for Temporal Relation Extraction: A Bi-LSTM Approach for Detecting Narrative Containers ACL 2017

LIMSI-COT at SemEval-2016 Task 12: Temporal relation identification using a pipeline of classifiers SEMEVAL 2016

Generative Event Schema Induction with Entity Disambiguation IJCNLP 2015

Early and Late Combinations of Criteria for Reranking Distributional Thesauri IJCNLP 2015

Early and Late Combinations of Criteria for Reranking Distributional Thesauri ACL 2015

Generative Event Schema Induction with Entity Disambiguation ACL 2015

Event Role Extraction using Domain-Relevant Word Representations EMNLP 2014

Improving distributional thesauri by exploring the graph of neighbors COLING 2014

Identifying Bad Semantic Neighbors for Improving Distributional Thesauri ACL 2013

Text Segmentation and Graph-based Method for Template Filling in Information Extraction IJCNLP 2011

Finding document topics for improving topic segmentation ACL 2007

Enhancing Electronic Dictionaries with an Index Based on Associations COLING 2006

Enhancing Electronic Dictionaries with an Index Based on Associations ACL 2006

Discovering word senses from a network of lexical cooccurrences COLING 2004

Using Collocations for Topic Segmentation and Link Detection COLING 2002