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Paul Lerner
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Research Scientist @ NuMind

https://paullerner.github.io/
I'm starting this new personal project: autollm, a python library for easy data distillation of LLMs for text classification, information extraction, and open-ended tasks github.com/PaulLerner/a...
github.com
August 28, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Hi folks, I'm searching for a Research Scientist position in Paris starting from September! Let me know if you hear about an opportunity :)
June 4, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Great discussion at LREC :)
May 14, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Parallel Corpora of Scholarly Documents for English-French Machine Translation
Ziqian Peng, Lichao Zhu, Rachel Bawden, Maud Bénard, Éric de la Clergerie, Mathilde Huguin, Natalie Kübler, Paul Lerner, Alexandra Mestivier & François Yvon
📅 11th May | 16:30–16:54 | BUCC (remote)
May 8, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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➡️ Can Multimodal LLMs Generate Pedagogical Questions?

Thomas Gerald, Sahar Ghannay, Julie Lascar, Paul Lerner @lernerp.bsky.social, Anne Vilnat

in collaboration with LISN @lisnlab.bsky.social x.com/LISNLAB

📅 Thurs., 14 May, 11:00 - 12:40 (long, poster)
May 6, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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➡️ Assessing the Political Fairness of Multilingual LLMs: A Case Study based on a 21-way Multiparallel EuroParl Dataset

Paul Lerner @lernerp.bsky.social, François Yvon @yvofr.bsky.social

📅 Wed., 13 May, 11:40 (long, oral)
📖 arxiv.org/abs/2510.20508
May 6, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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➡️ Parallel Corpora of Scholarly Documents for English-French Machine Translation #BUCC
Z. Peng, @lichaozhu.bsky.social @rachelbawden.bsky.social @maudbenard.bsky.social Éric de la Clergerie, @mathildehuguin.bsky.social @nataliekubler.bsky.social @lernerp.bsky.social A. Mestivier & @yvofr.bsky.social
May 6, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Happy to chat if you're at LREC next week, I'll be presenting Wednesday at 11:40 in Session O4 "Evaluation, Validation, Quality Assurance and Benchmarking Methodologies"
May 5, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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We are very happy to announce our next seminar: Paul Lerner @lernerp.bsky.social (ISIR, Sorbonne Université & CNRS) "Controlling Linguistic Variability in Large Language Models" on Friday 10th April 2026, 11am CET. Details here 👉 almanach.inria.fr/seminars-en....
April 3, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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🧑‍🔬I’m recruiting PhD students in Natural Language Processing @unileipzig.bsky.social Computer Science, together with @scadsai.bsky.social!

Topics include, but aren’t limited to:

🔎Linguistic Interpretability
🌍Multilingual Evaluation
📖Computational Typology

Please share!

#NLProc #NLP
December 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The team meeting of the week was presented by Alexandre Vérine, from PSL, about "Quality and Diversity in generative models through the lens of f-divergences."
Thanks a lot for this interesting talk!
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Accepted to a Workshop (1/2):

"Self-Retrieval from Distant Contexts for Document-Level Machine Translation", accepted to the Conference on Machine Translation (WMT25), from @ziqianpeng.bsky.social, @rachelbawden.bsky.social, @yvofr.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Come work with @yvofr.bsky.social @weissweiler.bsky.social and me at @mlia-isir.bsky.social for a M2 internship on Assessing the Morphological Competence of LLMs! For 5-6 months from February or March 2026. Paid 600€/month
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
What's the plural of "LLM-as-a-Judge"?
October 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
introducing 🤔 ppllm, a Python Library to Compute LLM's Perplexity and Surprisal github.com/PaulLerner/p...
GitHub - PaulLerner/ppllm: 🤔 A Python Library to Compute LLM's Perplexity and Surprisal
🤔 A Python Library to Compute LLM's Perplexity and Surprisal - PaulLerner/ppllm
github.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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"in 2025 we will have flying cars" 😂😂😂
July 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Last week, I presented my work on "Assessing the Political Biases of Multilingual LLMs" at the EALM workshop @ TALN 2025 ! Thanks again to the ANR Diké project for organizing the workshop
July 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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📢 🎉 The team has one paper accepted to #MTsummit2025!
"Investigating Length Issues in Document-level Machine Translation" by @ziqianpeng.bsky.social, @rachelbawden.bsky.social and @yvofr.bsky.social in collaboration with @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social
📍 Geneva | 🗓️ 23-27,June
📕 arxiv.org/abs/2412.17592
Investigating Length Issues in Document-level Machine Translation
Transformer architectures are increasingly effective at processing and generating very long chunks of texts, opening new perspectives for document-level machine translation (MT). In this work, we chal...
arxiv.org
June 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"meticulously" is so absent from this list (from aclanthology.org/2025.coling-... )
June 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Am I the only reviewer that actually fills this "Reviewer Checklist"? And why do Area Chairs never answer when the paper needs to be desk-rejected? And reviews are due in 3 days 🫠
June 16, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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For the EALM Workshop
"On Assessing the Political Biases of Multilingual Large Language Models" by @lernerp.bsky.social Laurène Cave, @haldaume3.bsky.social Léo Labat, Gaël Lejeune, Pierre-Antoine Lequeu, @bpiwowar.bsky.social Nazanin Shafiabadi and yvofr.bsky.social, collaborated with the STIH lab
June 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Amazed at what a COLING paper could look like in the 80's
February 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Hope you enjoyed our poster at #AISummit! I'm standing next to Pierre-Antoine Lequeu, @salimhafid.bsky.social, and @manonberriche.bsky.social but there's more people involved! Zoom-in to read their names or learn more about the project here about.make.org/democratic-c...
February 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM