Nicolas Ballier

38 papers A* 1A 2B 3C 1Misc 1Journal 9Unranked 21

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	J	`jnl`	Assessing the validity of new paradigmatic complexity measures as criterial features for proficiency in L2 writings in English. CoRR Cyriel Mallart, Andrew J. Simpkin, Nicolas Ballier, Paula Lissón, Rémi Venant, Jen-Yu Li, Bernardo Stearns, Thomas Gaillat
2025	A*	`conf`	Beyond WER: Probing Whisper's Sub-token Decoder Across Diverse Language Resource Levels. EMNLP Siyu Liang, Nicolas Ballier, Gina-Anne Levow, Richard A. Wright
2025	J	`jnl`	Beyond WER: Probing Whisper's Sub-token Decoder Across Diverse Language Resource Levels. CoRR Siyu Liang, Nicolas Ballier, Gina-Anne Levow, Richard A. Wright
2025	J	`jnl`	The Limits of Data Scaling: Sub-token Utilization and Acoustic Saturation in Multilingual ASR. CoRR Siyu Liang, Nicolas Ballier, Gina-Anne Levow, Richard A. Wright
2024	—	`conf`	Enhancing Translation Quality: A Comparative Study of Fine-Tuning and Prompt Engineering in Dialog-Oriented Machine Translation Systems. Insights from the MULTITAN-GML Team. WMT Lichao Zhu, Maria Zimina, Behnoosh Namdarzadeh, Nicolas Ballier, Jean-Baptiste Yunès
2024	—	`conf`	Exploring NMT Explainability for Translators Using NMT Visualising Tools. EAMT (1) Gabriela González Sáez, Mariam Nakhlé, James Turner, Fabien Lopez, Nicolas Ballier, Marco Dinarelli, Emmanuelle Esperança-Rodier, Sui He, Raheel Qader, Caroline Rossi, Didier Schwab, Jun Yang
2024	—	`conf`	Logging Keystrokes in Writing by English Learners. LREC/COLING Georgios Velentzas, Andrew Caines, Rita Borgo, Erin Pacquetet, Clive Hamilton, Taylor B. Arnold, Diane Nicholls, Paula Buttery, Thomas Gaillat, Nicolas Ballier, Helen Yannakoudakis
2024	—	`conf`	Probing Whisper Predictions for French, English and Persian Transcriptions. ICNLSP Nicolas Ballier, Léa Burin, Behnoosh Namdarzadeh, Sara Ng, Richard A. Wright, Jean-Baptiste Yunès
2024	—	`conf`	The MAKE-NMTViz Project: Meaningful, Accurate and Knowledge-limited Explanations of NMT Systems for Translators. EAMT (2) Gabriela González Sáez, Fabien Lopez, Mariam Nakhlé, James Turner, Nicolas Ballier, Marco Dinarelli, Emmanuelle Esperança-Rodier, Sui He, Caroline Rossi, Didier Schwab, Jun Yang
2024	J	`jnl`	Whisper for L2 speech scoring. Int. J. Speech Technol. Nicolas Ballier, Taylor B. Arnold, Adrien Méli, Tori Thurston, Jean-Baptiste Yunès
2023	C	`conf`	A new learner language data set for the study of English for Specific Purposes at university. LDK Cyriel Mallart, Nicolas Ballier, Jen-Yu Li, Andrew J. Simpkin, Bernardo Stearns, Rémi Venant, Thomas Gaillat
2023	—	`conf`	Exploring a New Grammatico-functional Type of Measure as Part of a Language Learning Expert System. BEA@ACL Cyriel Mallart, Andrew J. Simpkin, Rémi Venant, Nicolas Ballier, Bernardo Stearns, Jen-Yu Li, Thomas Gaillat
2023	—	`conf`	Investigating Techniques for a Deeper Understanding of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) Systems through Data Filtering and Fine-tuning Strategies. WMT Lichao Zhu, Maria Zimina, Maud Bénard, Behnoosh Namdar, Nicolas Ballier, Guillaume Wisniewski, Jean-Baptiste Yunès
2023	—	`conf`	Methods for Phonetic Scraping of Youtube Videos. ICNLSP Adrien Méli, Steven Coats, Nicolas Ballier
2023	—	`conf`	The MAKE-NMTVIZ System Description for the WMT23 Literary Task. WMT Fabien Lopez, Gabriela González Sáez, Damien Hansen, Mariam Nakhlé, Behnoosh Namdarzadeh, Nicolas Ballier, Marco Dinarelli, Emmanuelle Esperança-Rodier, Sui He, Sadaf Mohseni, Caroline Rossi, Didier Schwab, Jun Yang, Jean-Baptiste Yunès, Lichao Zhu
2023	—	`conf`	Using Whisper LLM for Automatic Phonetic Diagnosis of L2 Speech, a Case Study with French Learners of English. ICNLSP Nicolas Ballier, Adrien Méli, Maelle Amand, Jean-Baptiste Yunès
2022	—	`conf`	Analyzing Gender Translation Errors to Identify Information Flows between the Encoder and Decoder of a NMT System. BlackboxNLP@EMNLP Guillaume Wisniewski, Lichao Zhu, Nicolas Ballier, François Yvon
2022	Misc	`conf`	Fine-tuning a Subtle Parsing Distinction Using a Probabilistic Decision Tree: the Case of Postnominal "that" in Noun Complement Clauses vs. Relative Clauses. ALTA Zineddine Tighidet, Nicolas Ballier
2022	J	`jnl`	Fine-tuning a Subtle Parsing Distinction Using a Probabilistic Decision Tree: the Case of Postnominal "that" in Noun Complement Clauses vs. Relative Clauses. CoRR Zineddine Tighidet, Nicolas Ballier
2022	J	`jnl`	Screening Gender Transfer in Neural Machine Translation. CoRR Guillaume Wisniewski, Lichao Zhu, Nicolas Ballier, François Yvon
2022	—	`conf`	The SPECTRANS System Description for the WMT22 Biomedical Task. WMT Nicolas Ballier, Jean-Baptiste Yunès, Guillaume Wisniewski, Lichao Zhu, Maria Zimina-Poirot
2021	A	`conf`	"See what I mean, huh?" Evaluating Visual Inspection of F Interspeech Aurélie Chlébowski, Nicolas Ballier
2021	A	`conf`	An Experiment in Paratone Detection in a Prosodically Annotated EAP Spoken Corpus. Interspeech Adrien Méli, Nicolas Ballier, Achille Falaise, Alice Henderson
2021	—	`conf`	Biais de genre dans un système de traduction automatiqueneuronale : une étude préliminaire (Gender Bias in Neural Translation : a preliminary study ). TALN (1) Guillaume Wisniewski, Lichao Zhou, Nicolas Ballier, François Yvon
2021	—	`conf`	Screening Gender Transfer in Neural Machine Translation. BlackboxNLP@EMNLP Guillaume Wisniewski, Lichao Zhu, Nicolas Ballier, François Yvon
2021	—	`conf`	The SPECTRANS System Description for the WMT21 Terminology Task. WMT@EMNLP Nicolas Ballier, Dahn Cho, Bilal Faye, Zong-You Ke, Hanna Martikainen, Mojca Pecman, Guillaume Wisniewski, Jean-Baptiste Yunès, Lichao Zhou, Maria Zimina-Poirot
2020	B	`conf`	A Manually Annotated Resource for the Investigation of Nasal Grunts. LREC Aurélie Chlébowski, Nicolas Ballier
2020	J	`jnl`	Approches quantitatives de l'analyse des pr{é}dictions en traduction automatique neuronale (TAN). CoRR Maria Zimina-Poirot, Nicolas Ballier, Jean-Baptiste Yunès
2020	—	`conf`	C'est "mm-hm, oui" ou "mm-hm, non" ? Propositions pour une grammaire des composantes acoustiques des interactions nasalisées (A modest proposal for the pragmatic of nasal grunts in the CID corpus). JEP-TALN-RECITAL (1) Aurélie Chlébowski, Nicolas Ballier
2020	—	`conf`	From Linguistic Research Projects to Language Technology Platforms: A Case Study in Learner Data. IWLTP@LREC Annanda Sousa, Nicolas Ballier, Thomas Gaillat, Bernardo Stearns, Manel Zarrouk, Andrew J. Simpkin, Manon Bouyé
2020	B	`conf`	The Learnability of the Annotated Input in NMT Replicating (Vanmassenhove and Way, 2018) with OpenNMT. LREC Nicolas Ballier, Nabil Amari, Laure Merat, Jean-Baptiste Yunès
2020	—	`conf`	Un prototype en ligne pour la prédiction du niveau de compétence en anglais des productions écrites (A prototype for web-based prediction of English proficiency levels in writings). JEP-TALN-RECITAL (Demos) Thomas Gaillat, Nicolas Ballier, Annanda Sousa, Manon Bouyé, Andrew J. Simpkin, Bernardo Stearns, Manel Zarrouk
2019	B	`conf`	A Supervised Learning Model for the Automatic Assessment of Language Levels Based on Learner Errors. EC-TEL Nicolas Ballier, Thomas Gaillat, Andrew J. Simpkin, Bernardo Stearns, Manon Bouyé, Manel Zarrouk
2019	J	`jnl`	Beyond lexical frequencies: using R for text analysis in the digital humanities. Lang. Resour. Evaluation Taylor B. Arnold, Nicolas Ballier, Paula Lissón, Lauren Tilton
2018	J	`jnl`	Predicting CEFRL levels in learner English on the basis of metrics and full texts. CoRR Taylor B. Arnold, Nicolas Ballier, Thomas Gaillat, Paula Lissón
2017	—	`conf`	R-Based Strategies for DH in English Linguistics: A Case Study. Teach4DH@GSCL Nicolas Ballier, Paula Lissón
2016	—	`conf`	Variabilité des syllabes réalisées par des apprenants de l'anglais (Analysing syllable variability in a French learner corpus of English). JEP-TALN-RECITAL (1) Nicolas Ballier, Philippe Martin, Maelle Amand
2015	—	`conf`	Assessing L2 phonemic acquisition: A normalization-independent method? ICPhS Adrien Méli, Nicolas Ballier