Dr. Paul Lerner

Education & Degrees

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Publications

Peer-reviewed international journals

• [1] B. Biancardi, M. Mancini, P. Lerner, and C. Pelachaud, “Managing an Agent’s Self-Presentational Strategies During an Interaction,” Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 6, p. 16, 2019, Impact factor: 3.4, Long, ISSN: 2296-9144. DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2019.00093. Peer-reviewed national journals
• [2] P. Lerner, S. Messoud, O. Ferret, C. Guinaudeau, H. Le Borgne, R. Besançon, J. G. Moreno, and J. Lovón Melgarejo, “A Dataset for Answering Visual Questions About Named Entities,” Traitement Automatique des Langues, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 15–39, 2022, Long URL: https://aclanthology.org/2022.tal-2.0.

Peer-reviewed international conferences

• [3] P. Lerner and F. Yvon, “Towards the Machine Translation of Scientific Neologisms,” in Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Class B, Long, 9 pages, International Committee on Computational Linguistics, 2025. URL: https://hal.science/hal-04835653.
• 4] P. Lerner and F. Yvon, “Unlike ‘Likely,’ ‘Unlike’ Is Unlikely: BPE-Based Segmentation Hinders Morphological Derivations in LLMs,” in Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Class B, Short Paper, 5 pages, International Committee on Computational Linguistics, 2025. URL: https://hal.science/hal-04831106. 4/6
• [5] P. Lerner, O. Ferret, and C. Guinaudeau, “Cross-modal Retrieval for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering,” in Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024), Class A, Long Paper, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024, pp. 421–438, ISBN: 978-3-031-56027-9. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56027-9_26.
• [6] P. Lerner, O. Ferret, and C. Guinaudeau, “Multimodal Inverse Cloze Task for Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering,” in Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023), Class A, Long Paper, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023, pp. 569–587, ISBN: 978-3-031-28244-7. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-28244-7_36.
• [7] P. Lerner, J. Bergoënd, C. Guinaudeau, H. Bredin, B. Maurice, S. Lefevre, M. Bouteiller, A. Berhe, L. Galmant, R. Yin, and C. Barras, “Bazinga! A Dataset for Multi-Party Dialogues Structuring,” in Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Track B, Long, Poster, Marseille, France: European Language Resources Association, 2022, pp. 3434–3441. URL: https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.367.
• [8] P. Lerner, O. Ferret, C. Guinaudeau, H. Le Borgne, R. Besançon, J. G. Moreno, and J. Lovón Melgarejo, “ViQuAE, a Dataset for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering about Named Entities,” in Pro[1]ceedings of The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, ser. SIGIR’22, Class A*, Long, Poster, New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Ma[1]chinery, 2022, pp. 3108–3120. doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531753. URL: https://hal.science/hal-03650618/.
• [9] M. Mancini, B. Biancardi, S. Dermouche, P. Lerner, and C. Pelachaud, “Managing Agent’s Impression Based on User’s Engagement Detection,” in Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA ’19 series, Class B, Short, Poster, 3 pages, Paris, France: Association for Computing Machinery, 2019, pp. 209–211, ISBN: 9781450366724. DOI: 10.1145/3308532.3329442. National conferences with peer review
• [10] P. Lerner and F. Yvon, “Toward the Machine Translation of Scientific Neologisms,” French, in Proceedings of the 31st Conference on Natural Language Processing, Volume 1: Long Papers and Position Papers, M. Balaguer, N. Bendahman, L.-M. Ho-dac, J. Mauclair, J. G. Moreno, and J. Pinquier, eds., Rang C, Long, Presentation, Toulouse, France: ATALA and AFPC, July 2024, pp. 245–261. URL: https://aclanthology.org/2024.jeptalnrecital-taln.17.
• [11] P. Lerner, O. Ferret, and C. Guinaudeau, “Cross-modal search for answering visual questions,” in 18th Conference on Information Retrieval and Applications, ed. H. Zargayouna, Rang C, Long, Presentation, Paris, France: ATALA, 2023, pp. 74–92. URL: https://aclanthology.org/2023.jeptalnrecital-coria.5.
• [12] P. Lerner, O. Ferret, C. Guinaudeau, H. Le Borgne, R. Besançon, J. G. Moreno, and J. Lovón Melgarejo, “A Dataset for Answering Visual Questions About Named Entities Using Knowledge Bases,” in Proceedings of the Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN) 2022, Rank C, Short, Presentation, Avignon, France: ATALA, 2022, pp. 434–444. URL: https://aclanthology.org/2022.jeptalnrecital-taln.43/.
• [13] P. Lerner and L. Likforman-Sulem, “Classification of Online Handwriting Time Series for Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis using Deep Learning,” in Proceedings of the 4th Junior Conference on Data Science and Engineering (JDSE) (non-archival), Short Paper, Poster, 2019, p. 3. Peer-reviewed international workshops
• [14] P. Lerner and C. Grouin, “INCLURE: A Dataset and Toolkit for Inclusive French Translation,” in Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC) @ LREC-COLING 2024, P. Zweigenbaum, R. Rapp, and S. Sharoff, eds., Long, Presentation, 10 pages, Turin, Italy: ELRA and ICCL, May 2024, pp. 59–68. URL: https://aclanthology.org/2024.bucc-1.7. 5/6 Invited Seminars
• [15] P. Lerner, “Automatic Data Annotation and Webly Supervised Visual Question Answering,” in Knowledge[1]Enhanced Information Retrieval workshop (KEIR @ ECIR 2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 2024. URL: https://keirworkshop.github.io/.
• [16] P. Lerner, “Towards Machine Translation of Scientific Neologisms,” in IRIT seminars, Toulouse, France, 2024. URL: https://www.irit.fr/EVT/PDF/evt-1070-en.pdf.