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Hadrien GELAS

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  Training and professional background
  Research interests
  Scientific activities
  Fieldwork
  Participation in research projects
  Teaching
  Other international activities
  Main publications and conferences

TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND


 

2009-2012: PhD in Linguistic, Université Lumière-Lyon 2, Laboratory Dynamique Du Language, co-direction Laboratory Informatique de Grenoble.
Title: Automatic Speech Recognition for Bantu Languages: Punu (B43) and Swahili (G42).
Advisors: François Pellegrino (DDL), Laurent Besacier (LIG), Sophie Manus (DDL)

 

2008-2009: MASTER 2 Linguistics, Université Lumière-Lyon2.
Title: Apport de la reconnaissance de la parole à la documentation du punu, évaluation d'outils pour la documentation de langues en danger.
Advisors: François Pellegrino (DDL), Laurent Besacier (LIG)

 

2007-2008: MASTER 1 Linguistics, Université Lumière-Lyon2.
Title: Évolution d'une langue en danger à travers l'étude du système verbal du gisir, langue bantu B41
Advisors: Lolke van der Veen (DDL), Denis Creissels (DDL)

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS


 

Automatic Speech Recognition

 

Bantu Languages

 

Resource scarce languages

 

Endangered languages

 

Corpora studies

 

Statistical Studies

 

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES


 

10 mai 2011 : Co-organizing the seminar AFCP: Ethical and legal aspects of oral corpora.
(co-organized with S. Rossato, L. Besacier and G. Adda) (Program and Interventions in French)

 

FIELDWORK


 

May 2010 : Read speech collection in London with native speakers of Swahili.

 

PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS


 

Member, ANR project Pi, Spoken Language Technologies for PI-languages.
Project manager: Laurent Besacier (LIG).

 

Assistant, ANR Project CLHASS.
Project manager: Jean-Marie Hombert (DDL).

 

TEACHING


 

2012-2013 : Assistant lecturer in computer science, IUT Lumière Lyon 2

  • Licence 3rd year "Logistique Globale" (Global Logistics) : Database Management Systems
  • DUT QLIO (Quality, Industrial Logistics and Organization) : Database Management Systems

 

2011-2012: Linguistics, Université Lumière Lyon 2

  • Licence 2nd year: General Linguistic - Phonology.
    Learn the IPA with an interactive Flashcard game : English, French (click on left edge for fullscreen mode and shuffle, unclick both side mode on right edge, then use your keyboard left/right arrow keys to navigate and up/down keys to see answers. You can also generate tests, play games and print cards or learn all this on your last Android/iPhone smartphone).
  • Licence 1st year 2nd semester: General Linguistic - Morphology / Syntax

 

2010-2011 : Seminar : Introduction to Latex for linguists (with Pierric Sans and Christian Dicanio)

 

2010-2011: Linguistics, Université Lumière Lyon 2

  • Licence 2nd year 1st semester: Computational Linguistic - Phonetic with Praat.
  • Licence 2nd year 2nd semester: Computational Linguistic - Tools for data analysis.

 

2009-2010 : Linguistics, Université Stendhal Grenoble 3

  • Licence 2nd year : Syllabic Representations

 

OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES


 

3L International Summer School on Language Documentation and Description, SOAS London, 2009.

 

3L International Summer School on Language Documentation and Description, Lyon, 2008.

 

Grants and Scholarships

  • 2009-2012 : Doctoral grant.

MAIN PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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PhDs and master thesis
 

Gelas, H., 2009, "Apport de la reconnaissance de la parole à la documentation du punu, évaluation d'outils pour la documentation de langues en danger", Mémoire M2, Sciences du Langage, Université Lumière Lyon 2


 

Gelas, H., 2008, "Évolution d'une langue en danger à travers l'étude du système verbal du gisir, langue bantu B41", Mémoire M1, Sciences du Langage, Université Lumière Lyon 2


Chapters in books
 

Adda, G., Mariani, J., Besacier, L. & Gelas, H., 2013, "Economic and Ethical background of Crowdsourcing for Speech", in Crowdsourcing for Speech Processing Applications to Data Collection, Transcription and Assessment, Eskenazi, M., Levow, G., Meng, H., Parent, G. & Suendermann, D. (eds), John Wiley & Sons


Conferences with proceedings
 

Gelas, H., Besacier, L. & Pellegrino, F., 2012, "Developments of Swahili resources for an automatic speech recognition system", proc. of SLTU, Cape Town, South Africa, 07-09 May (Slides)  (paper)


 

Gelas, H., Besacier, L. & Pellegrino, F., 2012, "Développement de ressources en swahili pour un système de reconnaisance automatique de la parole", actes de JEP, Grenoble, France, Juin 2012 (Slides)  (paper)


 

Gelas, H., Abate, S., Besacier, L. & Pellegrino, F., 2012, "Analyse des performances de modèles de langage sub-lexical pour des langues peu-dotées à morphologie riche", actes de JEP, Workshop TALAF, Grenoble, France, Juin 2012 (Slides)  (paper)


 

Gelas, H., Abate, S., Besacier, L. & Pellegrino, F., 2011, "Evaluation of crowdsourcing transcriptions for African languages", proc. of Human Language Technology for Development, Alexandria, Egypt, 02-05 May


 

Gelas, H., Abate, S., Besacier, L. & Pellegrino, F., 2011, "Quality assessment of crowdsourcing transcriptions for African languages", proc. of Interspeech, Florence, Italy, 28-31 August  (paper, poster)


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