YVON François
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Senior CNRS researcher
Awards
François Yvon is currently a CNRS research director and works within the MLIA team at the Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR – CNRS/Sorbonne University). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from ENST (1996), where he was appointed as a lecturer in the Computer Science and Networks department, and later became a professor of Computer Science at Université Paris-Sud in 2007. At that time, he joined LIMSI-CNRS (now the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Digital Sciences – LISN, CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay) in Orsay, where he developed machine translation activities within the Spoken Language Processing group. He became a member of CNRS during his tenure as director of LIMSI (2013–2019). In July 2023, he joined ISIR.
His research activities cover a wide range of topics in natural language processing, from computational morphology to text mining and structured learning methods. He is currently focusing on multilingual processing.
Selected publications
- Paul Lerner and François Yvon. 2025. Towards the Machine Translation of Scientific Neologisms <https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.63/>. In /Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics/, pages 947–963, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Amir Hossein Kargaran, Ayyoob Imani, François Yvon, and Hinrich Schuetze. 2023. GlotLID: Language Identification for Low-Resource Languages <https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.410/>. In /Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023/, pages 6155–6218, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Rachel Bawden and François Yvon. 2023. Investigating the Translation Performance of a Large Multilingual Language Model: the Case of BLOOM <https://aclanthology.org/2023.eamt-1.16/>. In /Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation/, pages 157–170, Tampere, Finland. European Association for Machine Translation.
- Maxime Bouthors, Josep Crego, and François Yvon. 2023. Towards Example-Based NMT with Multi-Levenshtein Transformers <https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.113/>. In /Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing/, pages 1830–1846, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Shu Okabe, Laurent Besacier, and François Yvon. 2022. Weakly Supervised Word Segmentation for Computational Language Documentation <https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.510/>. In /Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)/, pages 7385–7398, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.