Christophe Servan

Christophe Servan is a prominent researcher and manager in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). He currently holds multiple positions:

1. Researcher at the LISN-CNRS lab since 2022.12
2. Part-time Research Scientist and Manager at Qwant, where he leads the NLP topic.1
3. Senior Principal Scientist at Intescia – LISN-CNRS.3

Academic Background

Christophe Servan holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Avignon, France, which he received in 2008.1

Research Interests

His main research interests include:

• Deep Learning for multilingual Natural Language Processing
• Applications in Dialogue Systems and Information Retrieval
• Responsible models for various NLP fields, including:
  • Spoken Language Understanding
  • Semantic content analysis and modeling
  • Conversational QA
  • Machine translation
  • Intent Detection in real-life applications at scale1

Professional Experience

Throughout his career, Christophe Servan has held several notable positions:

• Deputy director of the INRIA-QWANT Lab (2018-2021)
• Applied researcher at SYSTRAN (2016-2017)
• Member of the GETALP team at the University of Grenoble (2015-2016)
• Researcher at Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE) (2013-2015)
• Postdoc researcher at the University of Le Mans, France (LIUM)
• Research engineer at the Vision & Content Engineering Laboratory at CEA LIST (2009-2010)1

Teaching Experience

Christophe Servan has been teaching NLP courses to master's and engineering students at various institutions, including:

• Polytech'Saclay
• EPITA
• Polytech Grenoble1

Recent Work

Some of his recent work includes:

• Development of the French version of the ALBERT model (FrALBERT)
• Participation in the LongEval project for longitudinal evaluation of model performance
• Research on Transformers-based models for French Spoken Language Understanding and Question-Answering tasks1

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