We are very happy to announce our next seminar: Paul Lerner @lernerp.bsky.social (ISIR, Sorbonne Université & CNRS) "Controlling Linguistic Variability in Large Language Models" on Friday 10th April 2026, 11am CET. Details here 👉 almanach.inria.fr/seminars-en....

🎉 ALMAnaCH will be at EACL 2026 and co-located workshops this week! 🎉 👏 Congratulations to all authors and collaborators for their contributions on responsible and multilingual NLP, covering bias, misinformation, sociocultural analysis, and language modelling across diverse languages and domains.

We are excited to announce our next seminar: David A. Smith @dasmiq.bsky.social (Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston) "Artificial Intelligence as an Archival Science" on Friday 20th March 2026, 11am CET. Details here 👉 almanach.inria.fr/seminars-en....

We are very happy to announce our next seminar: Quentin Bertrand @quentinbertrand.bsky.social (Inria) "On the closed-form of flow matching: Generalization does not arise from target stochasticity" on Friday 6th February 2026, 11am CET. Details here 👉 almanach.inria.fr/seminars-en

You like Automatic Text Recognition (ATR/OCR/HTR) ? You like challenges ? Well, we open a competition for ATR/OCR of medieval manuscripts, in cross-lingual & diachronic settings for the Latin script. 📆 20/01 Registration 📆 21/03 Test set released 📆 3/04 Deadline for results Link cmmhwr26.inria.fr

🎓 Huge congratulations to Matthieu Futeral who successfully defended his PhD on the 9th December on "Multilingual and Multimodal Language Modelling", supervised by @bensagot.bsky.social, @rachelbawden.bsky.social and Cordelia Schmid.

We are very happy to announce our next seminar: Barbara McGillivray (King's College London) "Temporal models for Word Sense Disambiguation in historical texts and the COALA project" on Friday 9th January 2026, 11am CET. Details here: almanach.inria.fr/seminars-en....

From #CHR2025, I am happy to make public the update of #CoMMA, our corpus of multilingual medieval manuscripts, ran through our ATR pipeline. We updated our corpus with 10k manuscripts, reaching: 2.7B tokens in Latin 560M in French comma.inria.fr But that's not the only thing we did...

We are delighted to announce our next seminar: Carlo Santagiustina @santagiustina.bsky.social (Inria) "Human- vs. LLM-based annotations for the Social Sciences: Investigating misalignments and disagreements" on Friday 5th December, 11am CET. Details here: almanach.inria.fr/seminars-en....

We are proud to announce that we trained 1.5B, 8B, and 24B generative language models from scratch on 2 to 4 tera-tokens of carefully curated, high-quality data covering French, English and code. We release our models and code under open-source licences. Thread👇

We are excited to announce our next seminar by Fabian Suchanek (Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris) "On Language Models and Knowledge Bases" on Friday 21st November, 11am CET. Details can be found here: almanach.inria.fr/seminars-en....

🎉 The ALMAnaCH team will be at EMNLP 2025 taking place this week! 🎉 👏 Congratulations to all authors and collaborators for their contributions covering machine translation, dialogue analysis, and low-resource language processing. Here’s where you can find us: 🔹 Main Conference & Findings 👉

The ALMAnaCH research team, Inria Paris’s research team in natural language processing and digital humanities, is now on LinkedIn! Don’t hesitate to follow us for updates on our publications, seminar series, and more! www.linkedin.com/company/alma...

It's been brewing for months: @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social releases CoMMA (Corpus of Multilingual Medieval Archives) ! 📚 2.5bn tokens of mostly Latin and French texts 🕰️ 800→1600 CE 📜 23k manuscripts 🖥️ 18k on the reading interface: comma.inria.fr 🔍 Paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220v1 (1/🧵)

We are thrilled to announce our next seminar, co-organised w/ and taking place at ISIR by Jonathan Gratch (University of Southern California) on “A social-functional view on the recognition and analysis of emotional expressions”, Mon. 22 September, 2pm CEST. Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🏆🤩 We are excited to share the news that @nthngdy.bsky.social, supervised by @bensagot.bsky.social and Éric de la Clergerie, has received the 2025 ATALA Best PhD Dissertation Prize! You can read his PhD online here: hal.science/tel-04994414/

A huge congratulations to Lorraine Vanel who successfully defended her PhD on 8th July on “Planning Socio-Emotional Response Generation for Conversational Agents” supervised by Chloé Clavel (@inriaparisnlp.bsky.social) and Alya Yacoubi (Zaion).

I'm happy to share with you that my article, "La traduction automatique dialectale: état de l'art et étude préliminaire sur le continuum dialectal de l'occitan", received the 🥇 Best Paper Award in the RJC track of conference TALN 2025 ! 🔗 lnkd.in/eYM_J-pM

It was a busy week for ALMAnaCH. A huge congratulations to Yanzhu Guo who successfully defended her PhD on Friday 20th June on the “Automatic Evaluation of Human-Written and Machine-Generated Text”, supervised by Chloé Clavel! 👩‍🎓🎉

A massive congratulations to Lydia Nishimwe who successfully defended her PhD last Wednesday on "Robust Neural Machine Translation of User-Generated Content", supervised by @rachelbawden.bsky.social and @bensagot.bsky.social 👩‍🎓🎉

We are delighted to announce our next seminar by Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social ‬(@univofmaryland.bsky.social, currently on sabbatical at @sorbonne-universite.fr) entitled "Fairness and Trustworthiness in Generative Al" on Friday 20th June at 11am CEST.

Congratulations to @arijriabi.bsky.social who successfully defended her PhD “Small is Beautiful: Addressing Resource Scarcity, Language Variation, & Transfer Challenges for Automatic Detection of Harmful Language” last Tuesday, supervised by @zehavoc.bsky.social & @openlaurent.bsky.social 👩‍🎓🎉

Does your LLM truly comprehend the complexity of the code it generates? 🥰 Introducing our new non-saturated (for at least the coming week? 😉) benchmark: ✨BigO(Bench)✨ - Can LLMs Generate Code with Controlled Time and Space Complexity? Check out the details below !👇

We are excited for our next seminar, which will be given by Aina Garí Soler (Inria, @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social) on "Word Meaning Representation and Negotiation" on Friday 21st March at 11am CET. Connection link to be shared on the day. Details here: almanach.inria.fr/seminars-en....!

CATMuS Medieval Dataset 1.6.0 is out on @hf.co ! What's new ? Well... 〰️ 190,808 lines (+15k) 🔤 6,874,276 characters ! (+1M) 📖 314 different manuscripts ! (+96 !) New: - Uncial is on board ! - Occitan as well ! - We start from the 7th century now ! huggingface.co/datasets/CAT... 1/4

We are happy to announce our next seminar, given by Florian Cafiero @floriancafiero.bsky.social (PSL @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social) entitled "A Riddle in a Haystack: Using Large Language Models for the Detection of Rare Phenomena" on Friday 7th March at 11am CET. Details here: t.co/pPbWfkALM4!

Lydia Nishimwe est finaliste du concours "Ma thèse en 180 secondes" à Sorbonne Université ! Venez la soutenir le lundi 10 mars à 18h 🎤 🎓👏

We are thrilled to announce our next seminar by Syrielle Montariol @smontariol.bsky.social (EPFL) entitled "Multimodal perception and reasoning" on Friday 21st February at 11am CET. Connection link to be shared on the day. Details here: t.co/pPbWfkALM4!

We are excited for our next seminar by Cécile Pierrot (Inria) & Camille Desenclos (Université de Picardie & Inria) entitled "Percer le secret des lettres chiffrées de Charles Quint: un travail interdisciplinaire" on Friday 7th February at 11am CET. Details here: t.co/pPbWfkALM4!

🦋 We’ve made the move! The ALMAnaCH project-team at Inria Paris is now posting here. Follow us for news and updates about our research and seminar announcements!