Julien TOURILLE, PhD

Centre d’intégration Nano-INNOV
CEA/DRT/LIST/DIASI/LASTI
2, Boulevard Thomas Gobert
91120 PALAISEAU
julien.tourille[AT]gmail.com

About Me

I am a NLP researcher at CEA LIST working with the industry at the frontier of research 🚀.
I am also fighting disinformation and polarization by devising new methods for news recommendation and bot detection.
And I like running, a lot.

🗞️ News #

[2023-12-20] Aboubacar Tuo has successfully defended its thesis 🎉
[2023-12-11] Guilhem Piat has successfully defended its thesis 🎉
[2023-10-24] Our paper "TIAM -- A Metric for Evaluating Alignment in Text-to-Image Generation" has been accepted to WACV 2024. 🎉
[2023-10-24] Our consortium OpenLLM-France, lead by Linagora, has submitted its proposal to the call entitled "Communs numériques pour l’intelligence artificielle générative"

📋 Current Projects & Collaborations #

VANGUARD - Disrupting trafficking in human beings

Information extraction from web and social media resources
HE / EU contribution: € 5,000,000 / Duration: 36m (2023-10 - 2026-09)

Confiance.ai

Working with Renault on domain adaptation for language models

eMeuse Santé

Information extraction for clinical trials

AI4media - A European Excellence Centre for Media, Society and Democracy

NLP methods for information extraction in news
H2020 / EU contribution: € 11,999,722.50 / Duration: 48m (2020-09 - 2024-08)

BOOM - Modeling and Opening Opinion Bubbles

New methods for news recommendation systems that take into account both options and topics
ANR PRCE / ANR contribution: € 739,176.83 / Duration: 48m (2021-01 - 2024-12)

CoDeinE - artificial text COrpus DEsIgNed Ethically

Clinical text generation in collaboration with AP-HP
ANR PRC / ANR contribution: € 558,772.16 / Duration: 48m (2021-03 - 2025-02)

🎓 Supervision #

Current

Hugo Boulanger (postdoc, 2023-2024): Text Generation
Paul Grimal (PhD student, 2022-2025): Multi-modality, Diffusion Models
Evan Dufraisse (PhD student, 2021-2024): Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Past

Aboubacar Tuo (PhD student, 2020-2023): Event Extraction, Few-shot learning
Guilhem Piat (PhD student, 2019-2023): Named Entity Recognition, Entity Linking, BioNLP
Rida Lali (intern, 2023): Event Extraction, Knowledge Injection
Babacar Sow (intern, 2021): DeepFake Detection
Salma Salhi (intern, 2020): Event Extraction

📚 Publications #

2024

Paul Grimal, Hervé Le Borgne, Olivier Ferret, Julien Tourille
TIAM -- A Metric for Evaluating Alignment in Text-to-Image Generation
In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). 2024.
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2023

Evan Dufraisse, Adrian Popescu, Julien Tourille, Armelle Brun, Jérôme Deshayes
MAD-TSC: A Multilingual Aligned News Dataset for Target-dependent Sentiment Classification
In: Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 2023.
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Aboubacar Tuo, Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret, Julien Tourille
Détection d'événements à partir de peu d'exemples par seuillage dynamique
In: Actes de la 30e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. 2023.
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Guilhem Piat, Ellington Kirby, Julien Tourille, Nasredine Semmar, Alexandre Allauzen, Hassane Essafi
Intégration de connaissances structurées par synthèse de texte spécialisé
In: Actes de la 30e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. 2023.
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Aboubacar Tuo, Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret, Julien Tourille
Trigger or Not Trigger: Dynamic Thresholding for Few Shot Event Detection
In: Proceedings of the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval. 2023.
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Evan Dufraisse, Julien Tourille, Armelle Brun, Adrian Popescu
Analysis of Polarization in the News
In: Workshop on fake news "Infox sur Seine". 2023.
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2022

Guilhem Piat, Nasredine Semmar, Alexandre Allauzen, Hassane Essafi, Julien Tourille
Enriching Contextualized Representations with Biomedical Ontologies: Extending KnowBert to UMLS
In: Proceedings of the 2022 Computing Conference. 2022.
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Aboubacar Tuo, Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret, Julien Tourille
Mieux utiliser BERT pour la détection d'évènements à partir de peu d'exemples
In: Actes de la 29e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. 2022.
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Tiphaine Le Clercq de Lannoy, Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret, Julien Tourille, Frédérique Brin-Henry, Bianca Vieru
Stratégies d'adaptation pour la reconnaissance d'entités médicales en français
In: Actes de la 29e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. 2022.
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Evan Dufraisse, Célina Treuillier, Armelle Brun, Julien Tourille, Sylvain Castagnos, Adrian Popescu
Don't Burst Blindly: For a Better Use of Natural Language Processing to Fight Opinion Bubbles in News Recommendations
In: Proceedings of the LREC 2022 workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences. 2022.
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Julien Tourille, Babacar Sow, Adrian Popescu
Automatic Detection of Bot-generated Tweets
In: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation. 2022.
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Aboubacar Tuo, Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret, Julien Tourille
Better Exploiting BERT for Few-shot Event Detection
In: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Natural Language and Information Systems. 2022.
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2020

Julien Tourille, Olivier Ferret, Aurélie Névéol, Xavier Tannier
Modèle neuronal pour la résolution de la coréférence dans les dossiers médicaux électroniques
In: Actes de la 27e conférence sur Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. 2020.
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2018

Julien Tourille
Extracting Clinical Event Timelines: Temporal Information Extraction and Coreference Resolution in Electronic Health Records
Université Paris-Saclay, 2018.
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Julien Tourille, Matthieu Doutreligne, Olivier Ferret, Aurélie Névéol, Nicolas Paris, Xavier Tannier
Evaluation of a Sequence Tagging Tool for Biomedical Texts
In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis. 2018.
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2017

Julien Tourille, Olivier Ferret, Xavier Tannier, Aurélie Névéol
LIMSI-COT at SemEval-2017 Task 12: Neural Architecture for Temporal Information Extraction from Clinical Narratives
In: Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017). 2017.
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Julien Tourille, Olivier Ferret, Aurélie Névéol, Xavier Tannier
Neural Architecture for Temporal Relation Extraction: A Bi-LSTM Approach for Detecting Narrative Containers
In: Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 2017.
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Julien Tourille, Olivier Ferret, Xavier Tannier, Aurélie Névéol
Temporal information extraction from clinical text
In: Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 2017.
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2016

Julien Tourille, Olivier Ferret, Aurélie Névéol, Xavier Tannier
Extraction de relations temporelles dans des dossiers électroniques patient
In: Actes de la 23e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. 2016.
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Julien Tourille, Olivier Ferret, Aurélie Névéol, Xavier Tannier
LIMSI-COT at SemEval-2016 Task 12: Temporal relation identification using a pipeline of classifiers
In: Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation. 2016.
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👨‍💻 Open Source #

I am just starting giving back to the community by providing some (I hope) useful tools and libraries.
This is an ongoing effort, the list will hopefully get larger over time !

OSCAR Corpus Downloader

Simple tool to download the OSCAR corpus.