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Our objectives

ESPERANTO will contribute to the development of the next generation of AI; AI interacting with their users for better learning but also explainable systems: systems whose decisions are understandable by humans. In order to make these technologies accessible to the largest number of people, ESPERANTO will address applications with limited resources in the field of rare languages, robotics or education.

Among major events, the ESPERANTO consortium will co-organize JSALT workshops in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University. JSALT workshops consist of 2 weeks of summer school followed by 6 weeks of teamwork on a research topic chosen by the organizers and funded by major American companies. For the second time in 25 years, this key event in the field of Artificial Intelligence will take place outside the American continent and JSALT 2023  will bring 4 teams of international researchers to Le Mans.

News

    • Secondment of Heydi Méndez Vázquez

      Heydi Mendez Vazquez in Le Mans Université

      WP5: Evaluating intelligent systems, WP6: Community fostering
      Heydi Mendez Vazquez from CENATAV (Cuba) is hosted by LMU (France) for a 3 month-period.

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    • Secondment of Martin Atangana and Yannick Yomie

      Yannick Yomie, Martin Atangana, Marie Tahon and Anthony Larcher in Le Mans Université

      WP2: Working with low resources, WP4: Explainability
      Martin Atangana and Yannick Yomie visiting from UY1 (Cameroon) are hosted by LMU (France) for a 3 month-period.

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    • Secondment of Flavio Reyes Diaz

      WP2: Working with low resources
      Flavio Jorge REYES DIAZ from CENATAV (Cuba) is hosted by UNIZAR (Spain) for a 3 month-period.

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    • Secondment of Cyntia Bonomi and Mariel Esteve

      WP2: Working with low resources
      WP4: Explainability
      Cyntia Bonomi and Mariel Esteve from CONICET (Argentina) will be working in Zaragoza alongside researchers from VivoLab from September 1st to November 6th, 2023.

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    • Secondment of Martin Bernardo Meza and Lautaro Estienne

      WP6: Community fostering
      WP4: Explainability
      Martin Bernardo Meza and Lautaro Estienne from CONICET (Argentina) are hosted by UPGM FIT VUT Brno (Czech Republic) for a 3 month-period.

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    • Plenary talk by Victoria Mingote and Pablo Gimeno (UNIZAR)

      Victoria Mingote : “Representation and Metric Learning Advances for Face and Speaker Biometric Systems”
      Pablo Gimeno: “Multiclass audio segmentation in broadcast environments”

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    • Secondment of Leonardo Pepino and German Bachi

      WP6: Community fostering
      Leonardo Pepino and German Bachi from CONICET (Argentina) are hosted by UPGM FIT VUT Brno (Czech Republic) for a 3 month-period.

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    • Secondment of Fethi Bougares, Gabriel Hernandez and Lara Gauder

      WP4: Explainability
      Fethi Bougares from Elyadata (Tunisia), Gabriel Hernandez from CENATAV (Cuba) and Lara Gauder from CONICET (Argentina) are hosted by Le Mans Université (France) for 2or 3 month-periods, including JSALT workshop.

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    • Secondment of Jazmín Vidal

      WP4: Explainability
      Jazmín Vidal from CONICET (Argentina) is hosted by Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain) for a 3 month-period.

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    • Secondment of Yannick Yomie Nzeuhang

      WP2: Working with low resources
      Yannick Yomie Nzeuhang from University of Yaounde (Cameroon) is hosted by Université Grenoble Alpes (France) for a 4 month-period.

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    • Secondment of Federico Landini

      WP2: Working with low resources
      Federico Landini from Brno University of Technology (Czechia) is hosted by CONICET (Argentina) for a 2,5 month-period.

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    • Secondment of Martin Rodrigue Atangana Ongolo

      WP2: Working with low resources
      Martin Rodrigue Atangana Ongolo from University of Yaounde (Cameroon) is hosted by Université Grenoble Alpes (France) for a 4 month-period.

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    • JSALT closing days

      This summer, for 6 weeks, the ESPERANTO projects brought together in Le Mans 32 researchers from 10 countries to work on explainability for diarization and on Automatic design for conversationa models.

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    • Plenary talk by Petr Schwarz (BUT) and Themos Stafylakis (Omilia)

      Petr Schwarz: “Introduction to speaker identification and deep fake context.”
      Themos Stafylakis: “Extracting speaker and emotion information from self-supervised speech models.”

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    • Seminar from Martin Rodrigue Atangana Ongolo et Yannick Yomie Nzeuhang

      Martin Rodrigue Atangana Ongolo and Yannick Yomie Nzeuhang, PhD students at at the University of Yaoundé 1 and currently in secondment at the University of Grenoble Alpes, present their work.

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    • JSALT 2023 selection committee in Baltimore

      A team from the ESPERANTO consortium joined the JSALT team to select and refine the research topics that will be addressed next summer in Le Mans.

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    • ESPERANTO Progress on Week 2

      For the second week of the JSALT 2022 Workshop, the Esperanto team has presented the on-going work during the plenary session with other teams on July, Wednesday 13.

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    • ESPERANTO Progress on Week 1

      For the first week of the JSALT 2022 Workshop, the Esperanto team has presented the on-going work during the plenary session with other teams on July, Wednesday 6.

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    • ESPERANTO Introduction for JSALT 2022

      During the kick off meeting of the JSALT2022 workshop the ESPERANTO team described the goal of its research for the coming 6 weeks.

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    • JSALT 2022 workshop in Baltimore

      WP2: Working with low resources, WP6: Fostering community
      Monday, 27th of June is the kick of session of the JSALT 2022 workshop in Baltimore !

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    • 2022 JHU Summer School on Human Language Technology

      WP2: Working with low resources, WP6: Fostering community
      The first group of ESPERANTO team to JSalt has arrived at JHU, Baltimore, and started to follow the intensive two-week summer school of the Center for Language and Speech Processing

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    • Secondment of Gabriel HERNANDEZ SIERRA and Flavio Jorge REYES DIAZ

      WP2: Working with low resources
      Gabriel HERNANDEZ SIERRA and Flavio Jorge REYES DIAZ from CENATAV (Cuba) are hosted by UNIZAR (Spain) for a 3 month-period.

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    • Secondment of Germes Bengono Obiang

      WP4: Explainability
      Germes Bengono Obiang, PhD student from Université de Yaounde 1 (Cameroon) is hosted by Avignon Université (France) for a 3 month period.

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    • JSALT 2022 1st presential meeting

      ESPERANTO team members gathered in Le Mans to work on their JSALT project.

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    • Seminar from Theo Mariotte at Telecom Paris

      Theo Mariotte, PhD student at Le Mans Université, will present his work related to explainability at Telecom Paris, in the adasp group .

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    • European Researchers' Night

      ESPERANTO project was presented during the 2022 edition of European Night of Researchers

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    • AI Industry Connect Talks by SKEL | Omilia, Themos Stafylakis

      Dr Themos Stafylakis, Head of Machine Learning and Voice Biometrics, Omilia – Conversational Intelligence is invited speaker for the monthly business talks titled AI Industry Connect Talks.

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    • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges

      Horizon Europe has launched its Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges.
      Find out how it works and download the new flyer.

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    • Science & You

      Anthony Larcher presented ESPERANTO project to Science & You, an international science culture event addressed to professionals (researchers, PhD students, heads of museums and science centers, science communicators and journalists...), and open to the general public.

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    • Secondment of Oldrich Plchot Ladislav Mosner and Anna Silnova

      WP6: Community Fostering
      Oldrich Plchot Ladislav Mosner and Anna Silnova from BUT (Czech Republic) are hosted by Omilia (Greece) for a first period of 3 weeks.

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    • Déclics

      Anthony Larcher participated to the Déclics meeting with high school students, where he presented the ESPERANTO project.

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    • European Researchers' Night

      ESPERANTO project was presented during the European Night of Researchers in Le Mans and Zaragoza.

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    • The LIUM human active correction platform for speaker diarization

      The human assisted speaker diarization platform enables a human annotator to correct the output of any speaker diarization system by providing a graphical view of the diarization segmentation and clustering steps and guiding the human annotator to optimize the correction process and easily improve the resulting diarization.

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    • NIST workshop on AI Measurement and Evaluation

      The three-day workshop aims to bring together stakeholders and experts to identify the most pressing needs for AI measurement and evaluation and to advance the state of the art and practice.

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    • Secondment of Fethi Bougares

      WP2: Working with low resources
      Fethi Bougares from LMU (France) is hosted by Elyadata (Tunisia) for 7 months

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    • Speechbrain Release

      The first public version of SpeechBrain (https://speechbrain.github.io/) is released.

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    • Kick-Off Meeting

      ESPERANTO Kick off meeting was held online.

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JSALT 2022 - 2023

 

ESPERANTO participation to the 2002-2023 editions of the JSALT Workshop is actively supported by Jean Zay / IDRIS (http://www.idris.fr/jean-zay/jean-zay-presentation.html).

 

We would like to warmly thank their team from the high quality of service provided and their efficiency.

 

This work was performed using HPC resources from GENCI–IDRIS (Grant 2022-AD011012565 )