I am a CNRS researcher working in Getalp team (part of Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble). Before that, I was a research scientist at Naver Labs Europe (2019) and a research associate at the University of Edinburgh (2018) I obtained my PhD in 2017 at Paris Diderot University, which is now part of Université Paris Cité.

My research focuses on natural language and speech processing. Some of my current research interests: syntactic/semantic parsing and annotation, speech processing, end-to-end speech parsing, multitask learning.

Contact: first.last@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

PhD supervision
Publications
Tools and data

News July 2023: I have been awarded an ANR grant to work on syntactic parsing of spoken French.

Available positions:

• M2 internship on syntactic parsing of speech, 6 months, from February or March 2025
• PhD position (start: Fall 2024), 3 years, Structural Biases for Compositional Semantic Prediction
• PhD position (start: Fall 2024)

PhD Supervision

• Minnie Kabra: 2025-, Cross-modal methods for parsing speech, co-supervised with Benjamin Lecouteux
• Rayan Ziane: 2024-, Syntactic annotations for speech from low-ressource languages, co-supervised with Emmanuel Schang and Benjamin Lecouteux
• Maelig Hurte: 2024-, Structural biases for compositional generalization, co-supervised with Éric Gaussier
• Jeongwoo Kang: 2021-, Cross-lingual AMR Parsing, co-supervised with Didier Schwab and Cédric Lopez
• Adrien Pupier: 2021-, End-to-end Dependency Parsing of Spoken French, co-supervised with Benjamin Lecouteux and Jérôme Goulian

Publications

2025:

• Reassessing Graph Linearization for Sequence-to-sequence AMR Parsing: On the Advantages and Limitations of Triple-Based Encoding.
  Jeongwoo Kang, Maximin Coavoux, Cédric Lopez, Didier Schwab.
  Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP 2025

• (in French) Le traitement automatique des langues naturelles comme outil de prédiction des jugements . - Un pas à franchir entre le rêve et la réalité.
  Etienne Vergès, Maximin Coavoux, Olivia Vaudaux, Caroline Bazzoli, Géraldine Vial
  La Semaine juridique. Édition générale, 2025.

• (in French) Intelligence artificielle contre intelligence humaine - Comment l’esprit humain prédit les décisions des juges.
  Caroline Bazzoli, Maximin Coavoux, Olivia Vaudaux, Etienne Vergès, Géraldine Vial.
  La Semaine juridique. Édition générale, 2025.

2024:

• Should Cross-Lingual AMR Parsing go Meta? An Empirical Assessment of Meta-Learning and Joint Learning AMR Parsing.
  Jeongwoo Kang, Maximin Coavoux, Cédric Lopez, Didier Schwab.
  Findings of EMNLP 2024
  [pdf] [bib] [preprint] [Jeongwoo’s code and data] [git]

• Growing Trees on Sounds: Assessing Strategies for End-to-End Dependency Parsing of Speech.
  Adrien Pupier, Maximin Coavoux, Jérôme Goulian, Benjamin Lecouteux
  ACL 2024
  [pdf] [bib] [preprint] [Adrien’s code]

• (in French) Méta-apprentissage pour l’analyse AMR translingue.
  Jeongwoo Kang, Maximin Coavoux, Cédric Lopez, Didier Schwab
  TALN 2024
  [pdf] [bib] [Jeongwoo’s code and data]

• (in French) Une approche par graphe pour l’analyse syntaxique en dépendances de bout en bout de la parole.
  Adrien Pupier, Maximin Coavoux, Benjamin Lecouteux, Jérôme Goulian
  TALN 2024
  [pdf] [bib]

• What has LeBenchmark Learnt about French Syntax?
  Zdravko Dugonjić, Adrien Pupier, Benjamin Lecouteux, Maximin Coavoux
  LREC-COLING 2024
  [pdf] [bib] [preprint]

• Limitations of Human Identification of Automatically Generated Text
  Nadège Alavoine, Maximin Coavoux, Emmanuelle Esperança-Rodier, Romane Gallienne, Carlos Gonzalez Gallardo, Jérôme Goulian, Jose G. Moreno, Aurélie Névéol, Didier Schwab, Vincent Segonne, Johanna Simoens
  LREC-COLING 2024
  [pdf] [bib]

• Jargon: A Suite of Language Models and Evaluation Tasks for French Specialized Domains
  Vincent Segonne, Aidan Mannion, Laura Alonzo-Canul, Alexandre Audibert, Xingyu Liu, Cécile Macaire, Adrien Pupier, Yongxin Zhou, Mathilde Aguiar, Felix Herron, Magali Norré, Massih-Reza Amini, Pierrette Bouillon, Iris Eshkol-Taravella, Emmanuelle Esperança-Rodier, Thomas François, Lorraine Goeuriot, Jérôme Goulian, Mathieu Lafourcade, Benjamin Lecouteux, François Portet, Fabien Ringeval, Vincent Vandeghinste, Maximin Coavoux, Marco Dinarelli and Didier Schwab
  LREC-COLING 2024
  [pdf] [bib]

• Vlexique 2.0: A rich lexicon of French verbal inflection with form-level frequencies
  Sacha Beniamine, Maximin Coavoux, Olivier Bonami
  IMM 2024 International Morphology Meeting [pdf] [bib] [data] [data visualisation] [morphological tagger]

• LeBenchmark 2.0: a Standardized, Replicable and Enhanced Framework for Self-supervised Representations of French Speech.
  Titouan Parcollet, Ha Nguyen, Solène Evain, Marcely Zanon Boito, Adrien Pupier, Salima Mdhaffar, Hang Le, Sina Alisamir, Natalia Tomashenko, Marco Dinarelli, Shucong Zhang, Alexandre Allauzen, Maximin Coavoux, Yannick Esteve, Mickael Rouvier, Jérôme Goulian, Benjamin Lecouteux, Francois Portet, Solange Rossato, Fabien Ringeval, Didier Schwab, Laurent Besacier.
  Computer Speech & Language
  [pdf] [bib] [preprint] [models]

2023:

• Pretrained Language Models v. Court Ruling Predictions: A Case Study on a Small Dataset of French Court of Appeal Rulings.
  Olivia Vaudaux, Caroline Bazzoli, Maximin Coavoux, Géraldine Vial, Étienne Vergès.
  NLLP 2023
  [pdf] [bib]

• Neural correlates of object-extracted relative clause processing across English and Chinese.
  Donald Dunagan, Miloš Stanojević, Maximin Coavoux, Shulin Zhang, Shohini Bhattasali, Jixing Li, Jonathan Brennan, John Hale.
  Neurobiology of Language. 2023.
  [link]

• (In French) Analyse sémantique AMR pour le français par transfert translingue.
  Jeongwoo Kang, Maximin Coavoux, Cédric Lopez, Didier Schwab.
  TALN 2023.
  [pdf] [bib] [Jeongwoo’s code]

• On Detecting Policy-Related Political Ads: An Exploratory Analysis of Meta Ads in 2022 French Election.
  Vera Sosnovik, Romaissa Kessi, Maximin Coavoux, Oana Goga.
  TheWebConf2023.
  [pdf] [bib] [preprint]

• BERT Is Not The Count: Learning to Match Mathematical Statements with Proofs.
  Weixian Li, Yftah Ziser, Maximin Coavoux and Shay B. Cohen.
  EACL 2023.
  [pdf] [bib] [preprint] [old preprint version]

2022:

• (In French) Apprentissage profond pour l’estimation du quotient ouvert à partir du signal électroglottographique.
  Minh-Châu Nguyên, Maximin Coavoux, Solange Rossato.
  LIFT 2022.
  [pdf] [bib]

• (In French) Extraction de Phrases Préfabriquées des Interactions à partir d’un corpus arboré du français parlé : une étude exploratoire.
  Marie-Sophie Pausé, Agnès Tutin, Olivier Kraif, Maximin Coavoux.
  CMLF 2022.
  [pdf] [bib]

• End-to-End Dependency Parsing of Spoken French.
  Adrien Pupier, Maximin Coavoux, Benjamin Lecouteux, Jérôme Goulian.
  Interspeech 2022.
  [pdf] [bib] [Adrien’s code]

2021:

• BERT-Proof Syntactic Structures: Investigating Errors in Discontinuous Constituency Parsing.
  Maximin Coavoux.
  Findings of ACL 2021.
  [pdf] [bib] [test suite] [parser’s code]

• (In French) Contribution d’informations syntaxiques aux capacités de généralisation compositionelle des modèles seq2seq convolutifs.
  Diana Nicoleta Popa, William N. Havard, Maximin Coavoux, Eric Gaussier and Laurent Besacier.
  TALN 2021 (short).
  [pdf] [bib]

• Self-Supervised and Controlled Multi-Document Opinion Summarization.
  Hady Elsahar, Maximin Coavoux, Matthias Gallé, Jos Rozen.
  EACL 2021 (long).
  [pdf] [bib] [preprint]

2020:

• (In French) FlauBERT : des modèles de langue contextualisés pré-entraînés pour le français.
  Hang Le, Loïc Vial, Jibril Frej, Vincent Segonne, Maximin Coavoux, Benjamin Lecouteux, Alexandre Allauzen, Benoît Crabbé, Laurent Besacier, Didier Schwab.
  TALN 2020 (short).
  [pdf] [bib]

• (In French) Qu’apporte BERT à l’analyse syntaxique en constituants discontinus ? Une suite de tests pour évaluer les prédictions de structures syntaxiques discontinues en anglais.
  Maximin Coavoux
  TALN 2020 (short).
  [pdf] [bib]

• FlauBERT: Unsupervised Language Model Pre-training for French.
  Hang Le, Loïc Vial, Jibril Frej, Vincent Segonne, Maximin Coavoux, Benjamin Lecouteux, Alexandre Allauzen, Benoît Crabbé, Laurent Besacier, Didier Schwab.
  LREC 2020.
  [pdf][bib] [pre-print] [code for FlauBERT] [code for constituency parsing experiments]

2019:

• Unsupervised Aspect-Based Multi-Document Abstractive Summarization.
  Maximin Coavoux, Hady Elsahar, Matthias Gallé.
  NewSum 2019 workshop (short).
  [pdf] [bib]

• Discontinuous Constituency Parsing with a Stack-free Transition System and a Dynamic Oracle.
  Maximin Coavoux, Shay B. Cohen.
  NAACL 2019 (long).
  [pdf] [bib] [code] [slides]

• Unlexicalized Transition-based Discontinuous Constituency Parsing.
  Maximin Coavoux, Benoît Crabbé, Shay B. Cohen.
  TACL 2019.
  [pdf] [html] [bib] [code]

2018:

• Privacy-preserving Neural Representation of Text.
  Maximin Coavoux, Shashi Narayan, Shay B. Cohen.
  EMNLP 2018 (long).
  [pdf] [bib] [code]

2017:

• Multilingual Lexicalized Constituency Parsing with Word-Level Auxiliary Tasks.
  Maximin Coavoux, Benoît Crabbé.
  EACL 2017 (short).
  [pdf] [bib] [code]
• Incremental Discontinuous Phrase Structure Parsing with the GAP Transition.
  Maximin Coavoux, Benoît Crabbé.
  EACL 2017 (long). Outstanding paper award.
  [pdf] [bib] [code] [slides]
• (In French) Représentation et analyse automatique des discontinuités syntaxiques dans les corpus arborés en constituants du français.
  Maximin Coavoux, Benoît Crabbé.
  TALN 2017 (long).
  [pdf] [bib] [code] [slides]
• Cross-lingual RST Discourse Parsing.
  Chloé Braud, Maximin Coavoux, Anders Søgaard.
  EACL 2017 (long).
  [pdf] [bib]

2016:

• (In French) Prédiction structurée pour l’analyse syntaxique en constituants par transitions : modèles denses et modèles creux.
  Maximin Coavoux, Benoît Crabbé.
  Traitement Automatique des Langues, ATALA, 2016, 57 (1).
  [pdf] [bib]
• Neural greedy constituent parsing with dynamic oracles.
  Maximin Coavoux, Benoît Crabbé.
  ACL 2016 (long).
  [pdf] [bib] [code] [slides]

2015:

• (In French) Comparaison d’architectures neuronales pour l’analyse syntaxique en constituants.
  Maximin Coavoux, Benoît Crabbé.
  TALN 2015 (long). Best paper award.
  [pdf] [bib]

Thesis:

• Discontinuous Constituency Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages.
  Maximin Coavoux. PhD thesis. 2017 [pdf] [bib]

Tools and data

• Off-the shelf constituency parsers:
  • Bert based discontinuous parser: a discontinuous parser for English and German, based on BERT and released with pretrained models.
  • mtgpy-fr: a constituency parser for French, based on Flaubert and released with pretrained models.
• Discontinuous Constituency Treebanks for French
• Wikipedia parsed to constituency trees
• see also zenodo