PhD defense of Jade Mekki on 8th, September 2022

Title: Characterisation of language registers using emerging sequential pattern extraction Abstract: This PhD thesis aims at automatically characterising language registers. From a linguistic point of view, our contribution is to study the potential of natural language processing techniques to extract new knowledge about the casual, neutral, and formal registers. On…

Accepted paper at RANLP 2021

TREMoLo-Tweets: a Multi-Label Corpus of French Tweets for Language Register Characterization Jade Mekki, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Delphine Battistelli, and Nicolas Béchet

Accepted paper at ICANN 2021

Style as Sentiment versus Style as Formality: the same or different? Somayeh Jafaritazehjani, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive, and John D. Kelleher

Paper accepted at CICLing 2019 (La Rochelle, France)

The paper “Towards the Automatic Processing of Language Registers: Semi-supervisedly Built Corpus and Classifier for French” has been accepted at the International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing). The authors are Gwénolé Lecorvé, Hugo Ayats, Benoît Fournier, Jade Mekki, Jonathan Chevelu, Delphine Battistelli, and Nicolas Béchet. Come…

2 papers accepted at CORIA-TALN-RJC 2018!

First work on TREMoLo has just been accepted to CORIA-TALN-RJC 2018, the French NLP conference to be held in Rennes in May. Paper titles (translated from French) : Feature identification for register characterization. Jade Mekki, Delphine Battistelli, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Nicolas Béchet. Joint building of a corpus and a classifier for…

What?

The main objectives of the project are to study linguistic registers per se, and to develop methods for automatic transformation of linguistic registers across texts, i.e., translating a text from a register to another. This work will rely on the extraction of register-specific linguistic patterns and their integration in an…