Loïc Barrault
Scholar

Loïc Barrault

Google Scholar ID: S6Xj1BYAAAAJ
Research Scientist, Meta AI
Machine TranslationSpeech Translation
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
9,197
 
H-index
29
 
i10-index
48
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
13
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • One of the organizers of the Multimodal Machine Translation shared task at WMT.
Research Experience
  • Previously, he was a researcher and Associate Professor at LIUM (University of Le Mans) for 11 years, followed by 2 years as a Senior Lecturer in the NLP group at the University of Sheffield. Participated in many international projects such as EuroMatrix+, MateCAT, DARPA BOLT, and national projects like ANR Cosmat, PACTE 'Projet d’Investissement d’Avenir', and a large industrial project PEA TRAD. Coordinated the EU ChistERA M2CR project and is actively involved in the ChistERA ALLIES and French ANR ON-TRAC projects.
Education
  • Obtained his PhD in the field of automatic speech recognition from the University of Avignon in 2008.
Background
  • Research Scientist at Meta AI. Research interests include statistical and neural machine translation, particularly factored neural machine translation, multimodal neural machine translation, and designing lifelong learning methods for MT.
Miscellany
  • Photos: Cité Plantagenêt, Le Mans Tourisme; By Henk Monster, CC BY 3.0.