The partners' club of the GdR CNRS Traitement Automatique des Langues (GdR TAL) is organizing a scientific day on March 13, 2025 at Orange Innovation in Rennes (Cesson). The aim of the day is to showcase academic-industrial collaborations, and to exchange ideas on technological and methodological transfers from labs to industry (and vice versa). Current issues linked to the evaluation of generative models will also be highlighted.

The day will be built around several invited oral presentations and poster and demo presentations (see call for papers below).

Like all areas of AI, NLP has benefited in recent years from the emergence of new models - often large, pre-trained neural networks - which are highly efficient and enjoy a high public profile. However, despite their apparent maturity, adapting these text and/or speech models to business needs poses a number of challenges.

Also, their evaluation in a specific operating context (language, domain, task, modality...) is a delicate problem. This is particularly the case for generative models, where the methodological framework for evaluation remains fragile and is often poorly adapted to a specific use case.

Academic-industrial collaborations enable us to explore these adaptation and evaluation challenges within specific business frameworks, giving rise to numerous scientific questions, such as:

• Specialized NLP models: construction from scratch vs. fine-tuning vs. contextual adaptation (eg. RAG), prompting
• Frugality: adaptation, distillation, evaluation of computationally or data-light models
• Evaluation: in vitro vs. in vivo evaluation, evaluation for specific tasks, evaluation by business experts
• Production: issues raised by the deployment of models to users (security, scalability, exploitation of user feedback...)

As part of this day, we invite researchers working on these themes in academic or industrial settings to present (demo or poster) their work, even if it has already been published, in order to exchange ideas with colleagues in the field. Presentations of collaborative projects are also welcome.

All you need to do is submit an abstract of no more than one page, and/or the poster if it already exists, and/or the article describing the work if it has already been published, in French or English, to https://gdr-tal-jcp2025.sciencesconf.org

 
Submission of abstracts/posters/articles: on a rolling basis, no later than February 21, 2025

Notification to authors: maximum 1 week after receipt of proposal

The event runs from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with lunch provided on site. It will be held at the Orange Innovation conference center, 4 Rue du Clos Courtel, 35510 Cesson-Sévigné (metro line B, direction Via Silva, Atalante stop).