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Publications (16)

cs.CL2025

The Anatomy of Speech Persuasion: Linguistic Shifts in LLM-Modified Speeches

Alisa Barkar, Mathieu Chollet, Matthieu Labeau +2

This study examines how large language models understand the concept of persuasiveness in public speaking by modifying speech transcripts from PhD candidates in the "Ma These en 18…

cs.LG2024

Any2Graph: Deep End-To-End Supervised Graph Prediction With An Optimal Transport Loss

Paul Krzakala, Junjie Yang, Rémi Flamary +3

We propose Any2graph, a generic framework for end-to-end Supervised Graph Prediction (SGP) i.e. a deep learning model that predicts an entire graph for any kind of input. The frame…

cs.CL2022

A survey of neural models for the automatic analysis of conversation: Towards a better integration of the social sciences

Chloé Clavel, Matthieu Labeau, Justine Cassell

Some exciting new approaches to neural architectures for the analysis of conversation have been introduced over the past couple of years. These include neural architectures for det…

cs.CL2021

Few-Shot Emotion Recognition in Conversation with Sequential Prototypical Networks

Gaël Guibon, Matthieu Labeau, Hélène Flamein +2

Several recent studies on dyadic human-human interactions have been done on conversations without specific business objectives. However, many companies might benefit from studies d…

cs.CL2021

Hierarchical Pre-training for Sequence Labelling in Spoken Dialog

Emile Chapuis, Pierre Colombo, Matteo Manica +2

Sequence labelling tasks like Dialog Act and Emotion/Sentiment identification are a key component of spoken dialog systems. In this work, we propose a new approach to learn generic…

stat.ML2024

Learning Differentiable Surrogate Losses for Structured Prediction

Junjie Yang, Matthieu Labeau, Florence d'Alché-Buc

Structured prediction involves learning to predict complex structures rather than simple scalar values. The main challenge arises from the non-Euclidean nature of the output space,…

cs.CL2021

Code-switched inspired losses for generic spoken dialog representations

Emile Chapuis, Pierre Colombo, Matthieu Labeau +1

Spoken dialog systems need to be able to handle both multiple languages and multilinguality inside a conversation (\textit{e.g} in case of code-switching). In this work, we introdu…

cs.LG2026

Tailoring Strictly Proper Scoring Rules for Downstream Tasks: An Application to Causal Inference

Roman Plaud, Alexandre Perez-Lebel, Antoine Saillenfest +4

Probabilistic models are typically trained using task-agnostic objectives like log-loss, which can lead to significant errors in downstream estimation. This disconnect is especiall…

cs.CL2024

Revisiting Hierarchical Text Classification: Inference and Metrics

Roman Plaud, Matthieu Labeau, Antoine Saillenfest +1

Hierarchical text classification (HTC) is the task of assigning labels to a text within a structured space organized as a hierarchy. Recent works treat HTC as a conventional multil…

cs.LG2025

To Each Metric Its Decoding: Post-Hoc Optimal Decision Rules of Probabilistic Hierarchical Classifiers

Roman Plaud, Alexandre Perez-Lebel, Matthieu Labeau +2

Hierarchical classification offers an approach to incorporate the concept of mistake severity by leveraging a structured, labeled hierarchy. However, decoding in such settings freq…

stat.ML2023

Exploiting Edge Features in Graphs with Fused Network Gromov-Wasserstein Distance

Junjie Yang, Matthieu Labeau, Florence d'Alché-Buc

Pairwise comparison of graphs is key to many applications in Machine learning ranging from clustering, kernel-based classification/regression and more recently supervised graph pre…

cs.CL2020

The importance of fillers for text representations of speech transcripts

Tanvi Dinkar, Pierre Colombo, Matthieu Labeau +1

While being an essential component of spoken language, fillers (e.g."um" or "uh") often remain overlooked in Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) tasks. We explore the possibility o…

cs.CL2024

The Impact of Word Splitting on the Semantic Content of Contextualized Word Representations

Aina Garí Soler, Matthieu Labeau, Chloé Clavel

When deriving contextualized word representations from language models, a decision needs to be made on how to obtain one for out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words that are segmented into s…

cs.CL2025

EmoDynamiX: Emotional Support Dialogue Strategy Prediction by Modelling MiXed Emotions and Discourse Dynamics

Chenwei Wan, Matthieu Labeau, Chloé Clavel

Designing emotionally intelligent conversational systems to provide comfort and advice to people experiencing distress is a compelling area of research. Recently, with advancements…

cs.LG2021

Improving Multimodal fusion via Mutual Dependency Maximisation

Pierre Colombo, Emile Chapuis, Matthieu Labeau +1

Multimodal sentiment analysis is a trending area of research, and the multimodal fusion is one of its most active topic. Acknowledging humans communicate through a variety of chann…

cs.CL2020

Compositional Languages Emerge in a Neural Iterated Learning Model

Yi Ren, Shangmin Guo, Matthieu Labeau +2

The principle of compositionality, which enables natural language to represent complex concepts via a structured combination of simpler ones, allows us to convey an open-ended set…