Paul Lerner

I’m a Research Scientist at NuMind, working on Information Extraction. I got my PhD in Multimodal Information Retrieval at Paris-Saclay University (LISN/CNRS lab) and then did a three-year postdoc at ISIR (Sorbonne Université, CNRS). My PhD advisors were Olivier Ferret (CEA List) and Camille Guinaudeau (LISN). Before my PhD, I already worked with Camille but also with Hervé Bredin, about Multimodal Speaker Diarization, as a research engineer. At ISIR, I worked on Multilingual Large Language Models and Machine Translation with François Yvon.

I have an engineering degree in Computer Science from ESILV and a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Paris Descartes University (now Paris Cité). During these studies, I did two internships: one at ISIR/CNRS with Catherine Pelachaud and Beatrice Biancardi on Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction, and one at Télécom Paris with Laurence Likforman-Sulem on Parkinson’s Disease detection based on handwriting. See my resume for further details.

I’m broadly interested in Natural Language Processing, with a focus on resources and evaluation.

If you’re interested in my research, you can find a list of my publications here, and of my talks there. I advised several master students, learn about them here.

In 2025, I was awarded the DAAD AINeT fellowship that funded a week of travel to visit German labs.

I like to open source my research code and datasets, find a list of available resources here.

I also did some teaching: During my PhD, I was Teacher Assistant at Paris-Saclay University and Polytech Paris-Saclay. During three years of my postdoc, I was Teacher Assistant at ENSAE (IP Paris), Teacher Assistant at Sorbonne Université, and Teacher at Aivancity. I was also lab monitor at LxMLS 2025. More about my teaching activities here.