First things first, a quick guide on how to pronounce my name.

I am a post-doctoral researcher located in Toulouse, France. I am currently working with Chloé Braud and Philippe Muller at IRIT on mulilingual discourse relation extraction/identification. For any questions, don’t hesitate to send me an email or reach out on Mastodon!

Studies

I finished my PhD under the auspice of CNRS in two teams: CLLE at University of Toulouse II-Jean Jaurès, and IRIT at University of Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier University. My advisors are Nabil Hathout and Tim Van de Cruys. The title of my thesis is: “What do you know, BERT? Exploring the linguistic competencies of Transformer-based contextual word embeddings” and can be found here. My doctoral research focused on LLM explainability through the eyes of a linguist; can contextual word embeddings capture essential, complex and interesting linguistic knowledge? They learn many contexts, but can they deduce fine-grained preferences and constraints? Can they deal with “simple” concepts such as word order and “difficult” concepts such as time?

I pursued my MSc at Saarland University, in the Language Science and Technology Master’s program. I pursued my undergraduate studies in the University of Patras, with a B.A. in Greek Philology, Major in Linguistics.

Work

I previously worked at the Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Kunstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), in the Multilingual Techologies lab, under Prof. Dr. Günter Neumann, on multilingual text classification, syntactic parsing, dictionary generation and automatic linguistic annotation.

Misc

My pronouns are she/her. I fence (fleuret, lightsaber), but my favorite contact sport is drag. I am the designated baker at my workplaces. My natural habitat is art museums, and I have strong opinions about Paul Gauguin. I love Belgium, writing, and Oxford commas. I am a mutant.