I am a postdoctoral researcher at Chubu Gakuin University working with Misato Hayashi under a SNF postdoc.mobility fellowship. My project investigates the cognitive origins of human language through the comparison of recursive capabilities across primates. (To reach me: firstname[at]lastname.net).
Before that, I defended my PhD in (computational) linguistics at the University of Geneva in 2024, where I was supervised by Aurélie Herbelot and Jacques Moeschler. The title of my thesis is Language against Communication: a matter of subjectivity.
In my thesis, I question the communicative function of language in light of the major challenge posed by the privacy and idiosyncrasy of mental content (a.k.a. subjectivity). I introduce Subjective Coordination Theory, a theory of language and communication that does not rest on the presupposition that language enables mutual understanding and which argues that communication is thus better viewed as a form of subjective rather than intersubjective coordination between minds. I contrast the concept of subjectivity with that of normality to ponder on the role of human subjectivity in the development of artificial minds, and draw on the case study of Alan Turing's original article in Mind to conclude that artificial intelligence, at least as originally conceived by Turing, is a science that remains far from being done (on the concept of Undone (Computer) Science, check out: https://undonecs.sciencesconf.org/).
You can read my manuscript here or download it directly here.
I will be a SNF postdoc.mobility fellow for 24 months at Chubu Gakuin University working with Misato Hayashi.
I defended my PhD in Linguistics at the University of Geneva titled Language against Communication: a matter of subjectivity on December 6 2024!
I was at UndoneCS on February 5-7 2024 to present my work on the undone science of artificial intelligence.
I was at JCoLE on September 5-8 2022 to present our work on Language without shared meaning.
From July 1st 2021 to December 31st 2022 I was a SNF doc.mobility fellow for 18 months at the ILLC in Amsterdam working with Raquel Fernández.
Our new paper on Avoiding conflict: when speaker coordination does not require conceptual agreement is out in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Language and Computation!
I was at GeCKo on May 18 2020 with Aurélie Herbelot to present our contribution to Modeling lexical semantic shifts during ad-hoc coordination
I was at ACL from July 29 to August 2 2019 to present Towards incremental learning of word embeddings using context informativeness at the Student Research Workshop
I was at COLING on August 21-24 2018 with Corentin Ribeyre to present a paper on Butterfly Effects in Frame Semantic Parsing
I was at eLex on September 19-21 2017 with Corentin Ribeyre to present myValencer: a Valence Patterns Search Engine for FrameNet
I was at COLING on December 13-16 2016 with Corentin Ribeyre to present the Valencer: an API to Query Valence Patterns in FrameNet