Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile, on HAL and on the ACL anthology.

2024 Gabriela González Sáez, Fabien Lopez, Mariam Nakhlé, James Turner, Nicolas Ballier, Marco Dinarelli, Emmanuelle Esperança-Rodier, Sui He, Caroline Rossi, Didier Schwab, Jun Yang: The MAKE-NMTViz Project: Meaningful, Accurate and Knowledge-limited Explanations of NMT Systems for Translators. EAMT (2) 2024: 12-13 PDF

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: Exploring NMT Explainability for Translators Using NMT Visualising Tools. EAMT (1) 2024: 396-410 PDF

Bernardo Stearns, Nicolas Ballier, Thomas Gaillat , Andrew Simpkin , John P. McCrae (2024) Evaluating the Generalisation of an Artificial Learner Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning, 199-208. PDF

Marco Dinarelli, Dimitra Niaouri, Fabien Lopez, Gabriela Gonzalez-Saez, Mariam Nakhlé, Emmanuelle Esperança-Rodier, Caroline Rossi, Didier Schwab* and Nicolas Ballier (2024) Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation Models Analysis And Evaluation Through Attention, TAL, n° 64, vol. 3, 67-91. Special issue on interpretability. PDF

Velentzas, G., Caines, A., Borgo, R., Pacquetet, E., Hamilton, C., Arnold, T., Nicholls, D., Gaillat, T., Ballier N. and Yannakoudakis, H. (2024). Logging Keystrokes in Writing by English Learners. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) (pp. 10725-10746). PDF

Nicolas Ballier, Taylor Arnold, Adrien Méli, Tori Thurston, Jean-Baptiste Yunès (2024) Whisper for L2 speech scoring, The International Journal of Speech Technology.Springer,

Ballier, N & Méli, A. (2024) Investigating Acoustic Correlates of Whisper Scoring for L2 Speech Using Forced alignment with the Italian Component of the ISLE corpus, NLP4CALL 2024, Rennes, 24-25 Oct 2024, 20-32, published in the ACL anthology.

Ballier, N., Burin, L., Namdarzadeh, B., Ng, S, Wright, R. and Yunès, J.-B. (2024) Probing Whisper Predictions for French, English and Persian Transcriptions, 7th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, October 19-20, 2024, Trento, Italy, 129-138, published in the ACL Anthology.