An article, co-authored by Prof. Andrei Popescu-Belis, has received the Best Paper Award at the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP). The article presents the research of Dr Nikolaos Pappas - a postdoc at the Idiap Research Institute in Martigny - under the supervision of Prof. Popescu-Belis, former head of Idiap’s Natural Language Processing group.
Natural Language Understanding
In our group, we model summarization, abstraction (textual entailment), machine translation, knowledge extraction, syntactic structure, and lexical semantics, among other natural language processing (NLP) problems. We develop deep learning models of the discovery and prediction of entities and their relations at multiple levels of representation for multiple tasks.
Group News
James Henderson, who has joined Idiap in September 2017 and is now leading Idiap's Natural Language Understanding group, has recently been appointed as Action Editorfor the "Transactions of Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)" journal.
The paper "Multilingual Hierarchical Attention Networks for Document Classification" by Nikolaos Pappas and Andrei Popescu-Belis has received the Best Paper Award at the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, held on November 27-December 1 in Tapei, Taiwan.
The paper "Multilingual Visual Sentiment Concept Matching" by Nikolaos Pappas, Mercan Topkara, Miriam Redi, Brendan Jou, Tao Chen, Hongyi Liu, Shih-Fu Chang has received the Best Multimodal Paper Award at the Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), held on June 6-9 in New York.
The Idiap NLP group has participated in the search and hyperlinking task at the MediaEval 2013 evaluation campaign. The NLP group was ranked first out of eleven participants on the hyperlinking task (finding video segments related to a given one) and third out of seven on the keyword video search task.
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Current Group Members

HENDERSON, James (Brinton)
(Senior Researcher)
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MICULICICH, Lesly (Sadiht)
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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MAI, Florian
(Research Assistant)
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MOHAMMADSHAHI, Alireza
(Research Assistant)
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MARFURT, Andreas
(Research Assistant)
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KARIMI MAHABADI, Rabeeh
(Research Assistant)
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BEHJATI, Melika
(Research Assistant)

COMAN, Andrei (Catalin)
(Research Assistant)
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Alumni
- BHATT, Chidansh
- GASNIER, Catherine
- HABIBI, Maryam
- HAJLAOUI, Najeh
- HONNET, Pierre-Edouard
- LE, Quoc Anh
- LISON, Pierre
- LIYANAPATHIRANA, Jeevanthi Uthpala
- LOAICIGA, Sharid
- LUONG, Ngoc-Quang
- MAHDABI, Parvaz
- MATENA, Lukas
- MEYER, Braida (Regula)
- MEYER, Thomas
- PAPPAS, Nikolaos
- PATEL, Kumar
- POPESCU-BELIS, Andrei
- PU, Xiao
- REKABSAZ, Navid
- YAZDANI, Majid
Active Research Grants
- DOMAT - On-demand Knowledge for Document-level Machine Translation
- EVOLANG - Evolving Language
- INTREPID - Automated interpretation of political and economic policy documents: Machine learning using semantic and syntactic information
- LAOS - Learning Representations of Abstraction in Text
- NKBP - Deep Learning Models for Continual Extraction of Knowledge from Text
- SARAL - Summarization and domain-Adaptive Retrieval of Information Across Languages