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I finally received my work permit so I can safely say it now: I will be starting as a postdoctoral researcher at Academia Sinica in Taiwan...

I finally received my work permit so I can safely say it now: I will be starting as a postdoctoral researcher at Academia Sinica in Taiwan very soon! I will be working on multimodal models with a focus on graphs. More on that soon!

Last day at the LIA (Avignon CS lab) - big thanks to my colleagues and friends there for these 3 and a half years, they're the best!

Last day at the LIA (Avignon CS lab) - big thanks to my colleagues and friends there for these 3 and a half years, they're the best!

Finally, we got lucky enough to be interviewed by France 3 Champagne-Ardenne during the week! (sorry for the *terrible* quality of the...

Finally, we got lucky enough to be interviewed by France 3 Champagne-Ardenne during the week!

(sorry for the *terrible* quality of the video, the original was deleted from FR3 archives. I'll update a better version later. Also, it's in French.)

https://cloud.klmp200.net/index.php/s/ymyiyriZtY3oxDp

Also, I have been working during the last year on a second version of sleepsaver, my common lisp strategy editor. I rewrote the whole...

Also, I have been working during the last year on a second version of sleepsaver, my common lisp strategy editor. I rewrote the whole interface to use #clog instead of #mcclim (I love mcclim but it only works on Xorg and I needed it to be multiplatform). It's way more usable now with qol features such as dragging&dropping moves.

https://gitlab.com/sharpattack/sleepsaver

Back to #robotics! We made some progress during the interUT week...

Back to #robotics! We made some progress during the interUT week (https://www.utt.fr/actualites/inter-ut-2025-regroupement-annuel-des-clubs-de-robotique-du-groupe-ut-a-lutt) that regroups the three institutes of technology (UTC, UTT and UTBM).

First, some small work on repositioning the robot using aruco tags to counter odometry drift: https://sharpattack.fr/en/robotics/2025/02/07/aruco-positionning-prototype.html

Worked on Renard recently. A while ago I added a (limited) feature to extract other entities alongside characters in character networks. Now...

Worked on Renard recently. A while ago I added a (limited) feature to extract other entities alongside characters in character networks. Now the information about entity type is kept when exporting the graph to Gephi, so you can color nodes depending on the type of entities!

Emacs tip of the day: in org-mode, C-c | tries to convert the current region in an org table. So useful! It evens work on a pasted csv!

Emacs tip of the day: in org-mode, C-c | tries to convert the current region in an org table. So useful! It evens work on a pasted csv!

The preprint is available on arXiv: https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2412.11560

The preprint is available on arXiv: https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2412.11560

Just read this LREC 2024 paper "A Controlled Reevaluation of Coreference Resolution Models"...

Just read this LREC 2024 paper "A Controlled Reevaluation of Coreference Resolution Models" (https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.23/), and it seems consistent with what I heard at the CRAC 2023 workshop: recent improvements in coreference resolution seem tied to the number of parameters of the underlying model rather than to model architecture.

Last week as a PhD student!

Last week as a PhD student!

Our article (with @VincentLabatut and Richard Dufour) titled "The Role of Natural Language Processing Tasks in Automatic Literary...

Our article (with @VincentLabatut and Richard Dufour) titled "The Role of Natural Language Processing Tasks in Automatic Literary Character Network Construction" just got accepted into #COLING2025. In the paper, we analyze the importance of named entity recognition and coreference resolution on the quality of character networks automatically extracted by a NLP pipeline (in that case, Renard). We also evaluate baseline LLM-based pipelines. Preprint coming soon!

I will defend my PhD thesis the 9th of December at 9AM GMT+1. The title is "Natural Language Processing for the Representation of...

I will defend my PhD thesis the 9th of December at 9AM GMT+1. The title is "Natural Language Processing for the Representation of Narrative Texts through Character Networks". You can follow it online through this link: https://v-au.univ-avignon.fr/live/bbb-soutenance-de-these-a-amalvy-9-decembre-2024/

So I've just learned about "Proofpoint URLDefense". It's a security scheme that rewrites URLs in your email to redirect...

So I've just learned about "Proofpoint URLDefense". It's a security scheme that rewrites URLs in your email to redirect them to a website that is supposed to check if they are malicious. Regardless of whether that's a good thing or not, it just created a funny situation where I could not send precise URLs to a scientific editor because they kept getting silently rewritten. Damn you, technology!

... aaaaand the writing took a bit longer than expected, but it's finally over. Weird feeling between being happy to finally rest, and...

... aaaaand the writing took a bit longer than expected, but it's finally over. Weird feeling between being happy to finally rest, and wanting to go back and furiously edit all the stuff still bothering me. I guess that will pass.

New version of the Tibert coreference resolution library! I fixed some bugs that (greatly) affected performance, and I improved overall...

New version of the Tibert coreference resolution library! I fixed some bugs that (greatly) affected performance, and I improved overall efficiency. And we now have a more sensible benchmark (see the README).
https://github.com/CompNet/Tibert/releases/tag/v0.5.0

I can't recall a time this year when I was able to install a #Python project's dependencies without painful issues. I have been...

I can't recall a time this year when I was able to install a #Python project's dependencies without painful issues. I have been using #Poetry for some years now, and while it's better than the default experience, things are still frustrating.

How does the world work when Python's dependency management is so broken!?

So all of this time I was aligning my LaTeX tables by hand, and now you're telling me I could have just used M-x align-current? #Emacs ...

So all of this time I was aligning my LaTeX tables by hand, and now you're telling me I could have just used M-x align-current? #Emacs is amazing episode 32431

Renard v0.5.0 is out, a lot of new features! Check the changelog on Github https://github.com/CompNet/Renard/releases/tag/v0.5.0You can now...

Renard v0.5.0 is out, a lot of new features! Check the changelog on Github https://github.com/CompNet/Renard/releases/tag/v0.5.0

You can now easily extract directed mention networks!

A co-occurrence character network of Elric of Melniboné, extracted in less than 40 lines of Python using Renard (and yes, Stormbringer is a...

A co-occurrence character network of Elric of Melniboné, extracted in less than 40 lines of Python using Renard (and yes, Stormbringer is a character!)

And so, the thesis writing begins...

And so, the thesis writing begins...