Joseph Le Roux

I am an Associate Professor, working on Natural Language Processing at LIPN, USPN.

Main interests

  • Natural Language Syntax and Semantics,
  • Parsing, Grammar Induction,
  • Machine Learning, Structured Prediction, Optimization
  • Finite State Morphology, Type Theory

Social

Contact

leroux -AT- lipn.fr
Phone: +33 (0) 1 49 40 32 13
Fax Number: +33 (0) 1 48 26 51 12
bureau A101 LIPN - CNRS UMR 7030
Université Paris-Nord - 99, av. J-B. Clément
93430 Villetaneuse FRANCE

Internships 2024/2025 for Master Students

  1. NLP: Arc Vector Representation for NLP
  2. NLP: Latent-Annotation Formalisms via VAE and Diffusion
  3. MRFs for Combinatorial Optimization: Datasets
  4. MRFs for Combinatorial Optimization: Amortized Minimization of Bethe Energy

Supervising

Yash Kankanampati
Ph.D. Candidate (with Nadi Tomeh) Started Oct. 2024, Efficient RAG
Nicolas Floquet
Ph.D. Candidate (with Thierry Charnois and Nadi Tomeh) Started Oct. 2022, Efficient Transformers and Parsing
Alexandre Schulz
Ph.D. Candidate (with Roberto Wolfler-Calvo, Mathieu Lacroix and Emiliano Traversi) Started Oct. 2022, Primal and Dual Neural-based Heuristics for MIP solving

Supervised

Caio Corro
Ph.D. Candidate (with Adeline Nazarenko) Nov. 2014-Mar. 2018, Lagrangian Relaxation Methods for Deep Syntax.
Xudong Zhang
Ph.D. Candidate (with Thierry Charnois) Oct. 2018-May 2022, Energy Networks and Higher-Order Parsing.
Ghazi Felhi
Ph.D. Candidate (with Adeline Nazarenko and Djamé Seddah) Nov. 2019-Jan. 2023, Unsupervised Disentanglement with VAEs

What I do

Since 2011
Associate Professor (with French HDR) in the RCLN team at LIPN, Université Paris 13.

What I used to do

2010-2011
Post-Doctoral Researcher in the SEQUOIA project in the team TALEP, LIF, Université Aix-Marseille 2
2008-2010
Post-Doctoral Researcher in probabilistic parsing and grammar inference in the LORG Project at NCLT, Dublin, Ireland.
2007-2008
Worked as 'ATER' (TA / assistant lecturer) in IUT Charlemagne, Nancy, France.
2004-2007
PhD under the supervision of Pr. Guy Perrier (Calligramme team in LORIA lab, Nancy, France). I have worked on the modeling of coordination and its implementation in Interaction Grammars