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Laurent Besacier

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Principal Scientist at Naver Labs Europe && Professor at University Grenoble Alpes #NLP #AI #LLMs

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Call for Virtual Registration Subsidies Official website for the 2026 Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Call for Virtual Registration Subsidies for #EACL26 🌍

⚠️ Not for paper registrants
📝 Apply by Feb 27, 2026 (AoE)
📩 Decisions by Mar 2, 2026

2026.eacl.org/calls/virtua...

Don’t register before hearing back if you apply!

24.02.2026 15:40 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Thierry Breton et des personnalités européennes sanctionnés par Washington pour leur rôle dans la régulation de la tech Paris a dénoncé « avec la plus grande fermeté » la décision américaine visant l’ancien commissaire européen qui évoque, de son côté, une chasse aux sorcières. Le département d’Etat qualifie de « censu...

On parle beaucoup de Thierry Breton ce matin.
N'oublions pas Imran Ahmed (Center for Countering Digital Hate), Clare Melford (Global Disinformation Index), Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, fondatrice de HateAid et Josephine Ballon, de la même association.

24.12.2025 07:20 — 👍 168    🔁 75    💬 7    📌 4
Sponsorship brochure for ACL 2026 Conferences - 2025-11-28.pdf

I'm Sponsorship Co-Chair for #EACL2026 . EACL is a major NLP conference bringing together 2,000+ researchers and practitioners. Sponsorship boosts your organization’s visibility while supporting AI research. Sponsorship booklet: tinyurl.com/sponsor-eacl26

12.12.2025 08:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finally done with my #ICLR2026 reviews! 🎉 Used the full rating scale this time: from 0 (a paper that should’ve been desk-rejected) to 10 (absolutely loved it). Average: 4.4.

29.10.2025 10:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Multimodal, multilingual and trustworthy AI models and resources for XR Models, data, resources and publications as part of the EU project UTTER (2022-2025).

The UTTER EU project is wrapping up!
At NAVER LABS Europe, we’re proud to have contributed with models like mHuBERT & SPIRE as well as datasets such as ELITR-Bench for long-context LLM evaluation.
Discover more in our latest post 👇
europe.naverlabs.com/blog/multimo...

06.10.2025 14:50 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Ma chorale se produit le WE des 27-28 Septembre à la salle Edmond Vigne de Fontaine dans l’agglomération grenobloise. Occasion de venir écouter et voir du chant 🎤mis en scène et chorégraphie 🕺. QR code sur le flyer.

12.09.2025 16:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Applications are now open. Deadline: October 12th !

03.09.2025 20:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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GitHub - besacier/ETAL2025: Modèles Multimodaux pour l’Interaction Orale Modèles Multimodaux pour l’Interaction Orale. Contribute to besacier/ETAL2025 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Très heureux d’intervenir à l’école d’été #ETAL2025 à Roscoff (en terre bretonne 🌊) pour un cours d’introduction aux modèles multimodaux pour l’interaction orale.
📚 Matériel : github.com/besacier/ETA...

01.09.2025 08:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Je découvre à l'instant que la vuelta (tour d’espagne) passe devant chez moi aujourd’hui à seyssins, près de grenoble… lors d’une étape en provenance... d’italie 🤨

26.08.2025 06:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Advanced Language Processing Winter School – ALPS, 29th March – 3th April 2026

If you are leaving #acl2025 thinking "I wish for a week of time to think what's next", we have you covered:

alps.imag.fr

Announcing ALPS 2025, our 5th NLP winter school in 🇫🇷 We guarantee great scientific discussions, a fantastic scenery and great speakers:

01.08.2025 06:38 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

🚀 A powerful and easy-to-build constrained speech LLM model. For multilingual SQA, we beat Microsoft-Phi and all unconstrained submissions on the SHORT track at IWSLT 2025 instruction-following track!

Presented this Thursday at ACL 2025 by myself and @beomseok-lee.bsky.social 🧵👇

29.07.2025 14:18 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Sam Soul sera à Laval-en-Belledonne pour la fête de la musique le 21.6 🎷🎷🎷

08.06.2025 08:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As a scientist it should feel like an accomplishment when domain you’ve contributed to nears resolution after years of collective effort. So why many react with frustration refusing to let go of a field that’s essentially become engineering instead of moving on to new challenges?

22.05.2025 07:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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À Cannes, la fiancée de Jeff Bezos Lauren Sánchez débarque de son yacht et reçoit un prix pour son supposé engagement écolo Cannes ça pêche. À l’occasion d’un étonnant gala organisé près de la Croisette, Lauren Sánchez a été récompensée pour sa prétendue action en faveur de «la justice climatique». De quoi faire oublier so...

🛥️ Hier soir, en marge du festival de Cannes, Lauren Sánchez a reçu un prix pour son «plaidoyer pour la justice climatique»… qu’elle est venue récupérer à bord du yacht de 127m de long qu’elle partage avec son fiancé, le patron d'Amazon Jeff Bezos.

On vous en dit plus👇

21.05.2025 09:40 — 👍 61    🔁 22    💬 16    📌 7
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Sam Soul fête ses 10 ans et vous invite à un apéro-concert le samedi 24.5 à 18h au lycée horticole (!) de St-Ismier 🌳 Entrée gratuite!

10.05.2025 07:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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And we are done! Many tired eyes and lots of insights in today's project presentation (so much stuff done in 5 days!!) + insights from @dirkhovy.bsky.social

#ALPS2025

04.04.2025 10:21 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

#ALPS2025 lecture #5 was given by Alexandra Birch (University of Edinburgh). Title: “Reasoning and Knowledge in Multilingual Models”!!

03.04.2025 05:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#ALPS2025 lecture #4: Dzmitry Bahdanau (ServiceNow Research). Agents and Reasoning !

02.04.2025 08:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Yes, although it is April, #ALPS2025 is a truly WINTER school with snow activities etc. ❄️🎿🌨️

01.04.2025 15:25 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wonderful lecture #3 at #ALPS2025 on Algorithms for text generation by François Yvon who introduced us to the large space of decoding algorithms!

01.04.2025 10:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We end day1 of #ALPS2025 with Marzieh Fadaee (Cohere For AI): “Languages as Windows to Human Knowledge: Building Better Language Models Through Global Understanding”

31.03.2025 16:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This year at #ALPS2025 we innovate with group mini projects proposed by organisers or participants themselves!

31.03.2025 14:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#ALPS2025 first talk: Kyunghyun Cho himself! “Causality gets help from deep learning “

31.03.2025 14:05 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#ALPS2025 day1 kicks off with a poster session!

31.03.2025 07:29 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Still possible to join this shared task !

28.03.2025 12:45 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

ALPS 2025, the #NLP winter school in the Alps, kicks off in 2 days! 50 participants from around the world 🌍 7 top speakers, mini-projects, and 3 poster sessions ! Plus: snowy, screen-free fun in Aussois❄️ #ALPS2025 Web: https:/alps.imag.fr

28.03.2025 09:46 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Interesting to see the 20y-old Fisher dataset from 2004 making a strong comeback and being used to build dual-channel conversational speech models !

07.03.2025 11:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
AutoMin 2025 | Home Shared Task on Automatic Minuting

Join AutoMin 2025 - 3d Run of the Automatic Minuting Shared Task at #SIGDIAL2025 to push the limits of LLMs in
📌 Meeting Summarization
📌 Meeting Question Answering
📅 Workshop: Aug. 28, 2025
ufal.github.io/automin-2025/
#NLP #LLMs #AI #AutoMin

03.03.2025 09:24 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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15 PhD positions as part of the SWEET project – a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Industrial Doctoral Network Applications are invited for 15 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) positions to be funded by the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie European Training Network on “Social aWareness for sErvice roboTs” (SWEET) within the Hor...

🤝 Supported by 10 beneficiaries: Uni Degli Studi Napoli Federico II, Uni de Extremadura, @csic.es, @uni-hamburg.de, Ensta Paris, @palrobotics.bsky.social, @naverlabseurope.bsky.social, Furhat Robotics, Uni de León, @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social

✍️ Info: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/317628

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26.02.2025 09:03 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Ad on research positions and internships at NAVER LABS Europe, Grenoble, France in February 2025

Ad on research positions and internships at NAVER LABS Europe, Grenoble, France in February 2025

Welcome to NAVER LABS Europe on Bluesky! We chose 'LABS blue' to kickoff our posts & we'd appreciate it if you could share this one widely tinyurl.com/2nt9jdnv 😊 #hiring #jobs #internships

21.02.2025 15:58 — 👍 32    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 1