{"id":101,"date":"2017-09-15T09:33:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T09:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iict-space.heig-vd.ch\/apu\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:32:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:32:49","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/iict-space.heig-vd.ch\/apu\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">My research interests are in natural language processing, machine translation, information retrieval, language and multimodal resources, and the evaluation of linguistic and interactive systems.<\/p>\n<p>My articles can be found on my <a href=\"http:\/\/andreipb.free.fr\/publications.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">publication list<\/a> or my <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=E4kF67wAAAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar profile<\/a>.\u00a0 My recent research projects include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CIEL (Confidential Information Extraction with LLMs) supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/seal-innovation.ch\/\">SEAL Innovation Programme<\/a>, with Recarta, Exoscale, SDSC\/EPFL (2025-2026)<\/li>\n<li>SECTOR (Self-hosted AI Coding Tools: Review and Prototype) supported by Armasuisse (2024-2025)<\/li>\n<li>INTERCOM (Interpr\u00e9tation communautaire automatique de langues peu dot\u00e9es\u00a0: donn\u00e9es, syst\u00e8mes, \u00e9valuation) supported by HES-SO, with Bhaasha S\u00e0RL (2024)<\/li>\n<li>ChatMaterial (Generation of language teaching material) supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innosuisse.ch\">InnoSuisse<\/a> (with Godeby S\u00e0rl) (2024)<\/li>\n<li>DOMAT (On-demand Knowledge for Document-level Machine Translation) supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/snf.ch\/fr\">SNSF<\/a> (2018-2023), continued by EXOMAT SNSF (2024-2025)<\/li>\n<li>UNISUB (Unsupervised NMT with innovative multilingual subword models) supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ar.admin.ch\/fr\/armasuisse-wissenschaft-und-technologie-w-t\/home.html\">Armasuisse<\/a> (2022-2023)<\/li>\n<li>Decrypt (D\u00e9crypter les perturbations prosodiques pour am\u00e9liorer l&#8217;apprentissage de la communication) supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innosuisse.ch\">InnoSuisse<\/a> (with TALK S\u00e0rl) (2021)<\/li>\n<li>Digital Lyric (Cr\u00e9ation Po\u00e9tique Assist\u00e9e par Ordinateur, et Anthologies Num\u00e9riques Personnalisables) supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snf.ch\/fr\/JnT2xEAERCgO8qQc\/encouragement\/communication-scientifique\/agora\">SNSF Agora<\/a> program (main applicant: University of Lausanne) (2019-2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Previously, I have been the leader of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idiap.ch\/project\/modern\/\">MODERN SNSF Sinergia project<\/a> (2013-2017) on Modeling Discourse Entities and Relations for Coherent Machine Translation, which followed the COMTIS Sinergia project (2010-2013), on Improving the Coherence of Machine Translation Output by Modeling Intersentential Relations. I have been involved in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.im2.ch\">IM2 NCCR<\/a> from its start to its end (2002-2013), working on dialogue processing, data management and HCI, as head or deputy head of two individual projects. I have contributed to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summa-project.eu\">SUMMA EU project<\/a> (2016-2017), as well as to the inEvent European project (2011-2014), and to the AMIDA European integrated project (2007-2010) as head of a work package on interfaces and evaluation.<\/p>\n<h3>Recent articles<\/h3>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>Ataee S., Huart H. &amp; Popescu-Belis A. (2026) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2510.18077\">Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Improves Context-Aware Translation with Large Language Models<\/a>. <i>Proceedings of the 15th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)<\/i>, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.<\/li>\n<li>Allemann A., Noir S. &amp; Popescu-Belis A. (2025) &#8211; Neo &#8211; A Sophisticated Multilingual Chatbot for a Trusted News Ecosystem Exploration. <i>International Broadcasting Convention (<\/i><em><a href=\"https:\/\/show.ibc.org\">IBC 2025<\/a><\/em><i>), Technical Papers<\/i>, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 12 p. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibc.org\/ibc-show\/news\/thelma-schoonmaker-to-receive-ibc2025-international-honour-for-excellence\/22161\">Best Technical Paper<\/a> Award.<\/li>\n<li>Popescu-Belis A., Allemann A., Ferrari T., Krishnamani G. (2025) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2025.mtsummit-2.3\/\">Speech-to-Speech Translation Pipelines for Conversations in Low-Resource Languages<\/a>. <i>Proceedings of the 20th Machine Translation Summit<\/i>, Geneva, Switzerland, 10 p.<\/li>\n<li>Allemann A., Atrio A.R. &amp; Popescu-Belis A. (2025) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2025.mtsummit-1.6\/\">Optimizing the Training Schedule of Multilingual NMT using Reinforcement Learning<\/a>. <i>Proceedings of the 20th Machine Translation Summit<\/i>, Geneva, Switzerland, 16 p.<\/li>\n<li>Vernikos G. &amp; Popescu-Belis A. (2024) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2024.acl-long.653\/\">Don&#8217;t Rank, Combine! Combining Machine Translation Hypotheses Using Quality Estimation<\/a>. <i>Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)<\/i>, Bangkok, Thailand, p. 12087-12105.<\/li>\n<li>Wolleb B., Silvestri R., Vernikos G., Dolamic L., &amp; Popescu-Belis A. (2023) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2023.eamt-1.14\/\">Assessing the Importance of Frequency versus Compositionality for Subword-based Tokenization in NMT<\/a>. <i>Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT)<\/i>, Tampere, Finland, 10 p.<\/li>\n<li>Atrio A.R., Allemann A., Dolamic L., &amp; Popescu-Belis A. (2023) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2023.loresmt-1.4\/\">A Simplified Training Pipeline for Low-resource and Unsupervised Machine Translation<\/a>. <i>Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)<\/i>, EACL, Dubrovnik, Croatia, p.\u00a047-58.<\/li>\n<li>Popescu-Belis A., Atrio A.R., Bernath B., Boisson E., Ferrari T., Theimer-Lienhard X., &amp; Vernikos G. (2023) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2023.latechclfl-1.2\/\">GPoeT: a Language Model Trained for Rhyme Generation on Synthetic Data<\/a>. <i>Proceedings of the 7th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL)<\/i>, EACL, Dubrovnik, Croatia, p.\u00a010-20.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Recent talks<\/h3>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>De Laval G., Ferrari T., Friedli E., Habfast P., Lefebvre C., Popescu-Belis A. (2026) &#8211; Information Extraction from Long Documents with Local LLMs. <a href=\"https:\/\/ai-days.swiss-ai-center.ch\/fr\/\">AI Days 2026<\/a>, Swiss AI Center, Fribourg, 24 March 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Popescu-Belis A., Chapuis B., Ferrari T., Gambin D., Teofanovic S. &amp; Zmoos L. (2025) &#8211; Assessing the Performance of AI Coding Assistants: Metrics and Results. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/cyber-defence-campus_cyber-alp-retreat-2025-thats-a-wrap-activity-7341804567526858752-K-I7\">CYD Cyber-Alp Retreat<\/a>, Davos, 19 June 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Popescu-Belis A. (2024) &#8211; Mod\u00e8les de langage, mod\u00e8les d&#8217;intelligence\u00a0? Invited talk at <a href=\"https:\/\/ludovia.ch\/\">Ludovia CH 2024<\/a>, Yverdon-les-Bains, 23 April 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Allemann A., Popescu-Belis A., Chapuis B., Krishnamani G. &amp; Krishnamani K. (2024) &#8211; Low-resource Spoken Translation Pipeline for SMEs. <a href=\"https:\/\/2024.appliedmldays.org\/\">Applied Machine Learning Days (AMLD)<\/a>, EPFL, Lausanne, 26 March 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Popescu-Belis A. (2023) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/andreipb.free.fr\/textes\/apb-IAetCorrection-7dec23.pdf\">Intelligence artificielle et correction grammaticale<\/a>. Invited talk for <a href=\"https:\/\/ast-arci.ch\/arci\/\">ARCI<\/a> (Association Romande des Correcteurs d&#8217;Imprimerie) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.associationdescorrecteurs.fr\/\">ACLF<\/a> (Association des Correcteurs de Langue Fran\u00e7aise), 7 December 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Popescu-Belis A. (2023) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/smartlink.ausha.co\/pedagoscope\/chatgpt-entre-fascination-et-realisme\">ChatGPT entre fascination et r\u00e9alisme<\/a>. Interview for <a href=\"https:\/\/pedagoscope.ch\/podcast\/\">P\u00e9dagoscope (le podcast de l&#8217;enseignement sup\u00e9rieur)<\/a>, 24 February 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My research interests are in natural language processing, machine translation, information retrieval, language and multimodal resources, and the evaluation of linguistic and interactive systems. 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