Parmentier, Yannick

Associate Professor, Université de Lorraine (IUTNC)

WG leader

About

Yannick teaches computer science to undergraduate students at the University Institute of Technology. His current work focuses on the use of deep machine learning models in the context of under-resourced natural language processing, and computer-assisted language learning.

More information is available on Yannick’s webpage.

Education

Université Henri Poincaré | Nancy, France
PhD in Computer Science | Sept 2003 - April 2007

Université de Franche-Comté | Besançon, France
MSc in Computer Science | Sept 2002 - June 2003

Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard
Engineering Diploma | Sept 2000 - June 2003

Experience

Université de Lorraine - IUTNC | Nancy, France
Associate Professor | 2025 - present

Université de Lorraine - INSPE | Nancy, France
Associate Professor | 2017 - 2025

Université d’Orléans - IUT’O | Orléans, France
Associate Professor | 2009 - 2017

Ecole Supérieure des Sciences de l’Ingénieur de Nancy
Teaching fellow (ATER) | 2008 - 2009

Eberhard Karls Universtät | Tübingen, Germany
Post-doctoral fellow | 2007 - 2008

Publications

2024

Conference paper

  1. Generating from AMRs into High and Low-Resource Languages using Phylogenetic Knowledge and Hierarchical QLoRA Training (HQL). William Soto, Yannick Parmentier, Claire Gardent. In proceedings of 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Tokyo, Japan.
  2. Gramex: Generating Controlled Grammar Exercises from Various Sources. Guillaume Toussaint, Yannick Parmentier, Claire Gardent. In proceedings of NLP4CALL2024 : Natural Language Processing for Computer-assisted Language Learning, Rennes, France.

2023

Book chapter

  1. Construction, exploitation et exploration de ressources linguistiques pour le traitement automatique des expressions polylexicales en français : le projet PARSEME-FR. Mathieu Constant, Marie Candito, Yannick Parmentier, Carlos Ramisch, Agata Savary. Lidia Becker, Julia Kuhn, Christina Ossenkop, Claudia Polzin-Haumann, Elton Prifti (eds). 2023.

Conference paper

  1. Towards Sentence-level Text Readability Assessment for French. Duy Ngo, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of Second Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR@RANLP2023), Varna, Bulgaria.
  2. Phylogeny-Inspired Soft Prompts For Data-to-Text Generation in Low-Resource Languages. William Soto, Yannick Parmentier, Claire Gardent. In proceedings of IJCNLP-AACL 2023: The 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Bali, Indonesia. Yuki Arase, Baotian Hu, Wei Lu (eds). 2023.

Proceedings

  1. Actes des 5èmes journées du Groupement de Recherche CNRS « Linguistique Informatique, Formelle et de Terrain ». Karën Fort, Claire Gardent, Yannick Parmentier.

Research report

  1. Procédure de diffusion des publications de l’ATALA sur les archives ouvertes. Yannick Parmentier, Sylvain Pogodalla, Rachel Bawden, Matthieu Labeau, Iris Eshkol-Taravella.

2022

Journal

  1. Generating Arabic TAG for syntax-semantics analysis. Cherifa Ben Khelil, Chiraz Ben Othmane Zribi, Denys Duchier, Yannick Parmentier. Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press (CUP).

2021

Journal

  1. An Error Analysis Framework for Shallow Surface Realisation. Anastasia Shimorina, Yannick Parmentier, Claire Gardent. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, The MIT Press.

Conference paper

  1. Donner du sens à l’objet numérique dans la formation des futur·e·s professeur·e·s des écoles. Yannick Parmentier, Sylvie Kirchmeyer. In proceedings of Atelier « Apprendre la Pensée Informatique de la Maternelle à l’Université », dans le cadre de la conférence Environnements Informatiques pour l’Apprentissage Humain (EIAH), Fribourg/Virtuel, Switzerland. Broisin, Julien, Declercq, Christophe, Fluckiger, Cédric, Parmentier, Yannick, Peter, Yvan, Secq, Yann (eds). 2021.

Proceedings

  1. Actes de l’atelier APIMU 2021 @ EIAH : Apprendre la Pensée Informatique de la Maternelle à l’Université. Julien Broisin, Christophe Declercq, Cédric Fluckiger, Yannick Parmentier, Yvan Peter, Yann Secq.

2020

Journal

  1. A French corpus annotated for multiword expressions and named entities. Marie Candito, Mathieu Constant, Carlos Ramisch, Agata Savary, Bruno Guillaume, Yannick Parmentier, Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro. Journal of Language Modelling, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.

Conference paper

  1. PIAF : développer la Pensée Informatique et Algorithmique dans l’enseignement Fondamental. Gilbert Busana, Brigitte Denis, Marie Duflot-Kremer, Sarah Higuet, Lara Kataja, Yves Kreis, Christophe Laduron, Christian Meyers, Yannick Parmentier, Robert Reuter, Armin Weinberger. In proceedings of Didapro 8 – DidaSTIC – L’informatique, objets d’enseignements – enjeux épistémologiques, didactiques et de formation, Lille, France.
  2. PIAF: Developing Computational and Algorithmic Thinking in Fundamental Education. Yannick Parmentier, Robert Reuter, Sarah Higuet, Lara Kataja, Yves Kreis, Marie Duflot-Kremer, Christophe Laduron, Christian Meyers, Gilbert Busana, Armin Weinberger, Brigitte Denis. In proceedings of AACE 2020 - EdMedia + Innovate Learning, Amsterdam / Virtual, Netherlands.

Proceedings

  1. Actes des 2èmes journées scientifiques du Groupement de Recherche Linguistique Informatique Formelle et de Terrain (LIFT).. Thierry Poibeau, Yannick Parmentier, Emmanuel Schang.

2019

Book

  1. Representation and Parsing of Multiword Expressions. Yannick Parmentier, Jakub Waszczuk. Yannick Parmentier, Jakub Waszczuk (eds). 2019.

Other publications

  1. PIAF : développer la Pensée Informatique et Algorithmique dans l’enseignement Fondamental. Gilbert Busana, Brigitte Denis, Marie Duflot-Kremer, Sarah Higuet, Lara Kataja, Yves Kreis, Christophe Laduron, Christian Meyers, Yannick Parmentier, Robert Reuter, Armin Weinberger.

2018

Journal

  1. Building a syntactic-semantic interface for a semi-automatically generated TAG for Arabic. Chérifa Ben Khelil, Chiraz Zribi, Denys Duchier, Yannick Parmentier. The international Arab journal of information technology, Colleges of Computing and Information Society (CCIS).

Conference paper

  1. Interface syntaxe-sémantique au moyen d’une grammaire d’arbres adjoints pour l’étiquetage sémantique de l’arabe. Chérifa Ben Khelil, Chiraz Zribi, Denys Duchier, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of 25e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN), Rennes, France.
  2. A semi-automatically generated TAG for Arabic: Dealing with linguistic phenomena. Chérifa Ben Khelil, Chiraz Zribi, Denys Duchier, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2018), Hanoi, Viet Nam.
  3. Enseigner la pensée informatique à l’école primaire : formation initiale et continue des professeurs. Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of Atelier “Organisation et suivi des activités d’apprentissage de l’informatique : outils, modèles et expériences” RJC-EIAH 2018, Besançon, France.

2017

Conference paper

  1. A new syntactic-semantic interface for ArabTAG an Arabic Tree Adjoining grammar. Chérifa Ben Khelil, Chiraz Zribi, Denys Duchier, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of The 18th International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT’2017), Yassmine Hammamet, Tunisia.

  2. Annotation d’expressions polylexicales verbales en français. Marie Candito, Mathieu Constant, Carlos Ramisch, Agata Savary, Yannick Parmentier, Caroline Pasquer, Jean-Yves Antoine. In proceedings of 24e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN), Orléans, France. Iris Eshkol, Jean-Yves Antoine (eds). 2017.

  3. Produire des ressources électroniques à partir de descriptions formelles : application aux langues peu dotées. Denys Duchier, Yannick Parmentier, Simon Petitjean, Emmanuel Schang. In proceedings of DiLiTAL - Diversité Linguistique et TAL, Orléans, France.

  4. Un outil pour la manipulation de ressources arborées. Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of 24e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN), Orléans, France.

  5. Multiword expression-aware A* TAG parsing revisited. Jakub Waszczuk, Agata Savary, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of 13th International Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms, Umeå, Sweden.

Proceedings

  1. Actes des 19es REncontres jeunes Chercheurs en Informatique pour le TAL (RECITAL 2017). Hélène Flamein, Yannick Parmentier. Hélène Flamein, Yannick Parmentier (eds). 2017.

2016

Conference paper

  1. ArabTAG: from a Handcrafted to a Semi-automatically Generated TAG. Chérifa Ben Khelil, Denys Duchier, Yannick Parmentier, Chiraz Zribi, Fériel Ben Fraj. In proceedings of TAG+12: 12th International Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms, Düsseldorf, Germany.

  2. Separating the regular from the idiosyncratic: An object-oriented lexical encoding of MWEs using XMG. Timm Lichte, Yannick Parmentier, Simon Petitjean, Agata Savary, Jakub Waszczuk. In proceedings of PARSEME 6th general meeting, Struga, North Macedonia.

  3. XMG2: Describing Description Languages. Simon Petitjean, Denys Duchier, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (LACL 2016), Nancy, France. Maxime Amblard, Philippe de Groote, Sylvain Pogodalla, Christian Rétoré (eds). 2016.

  4. Promoting multiword expressions in A* TAG parsing. Jakub Waszczuk, Agata Savary, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016), Osaka, Japan.

  5. Enhancing practical TAG parsing efficiency by capturing redundancy. Jakub Waszczuk, Agata Savary, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of 21st International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA 2016), Séoul, Korea, Republic of.

2015

Journal

  1. High-level methodologies for grammar engineering. Introduction to the special issue. Denys Duchier, Yannick Parmentier. Journal of Language Modelling, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.

Conference paper

  1. PARSEME – PARSing and Multiword Expressions within a European multilingual network. Agata Savary, Manfred Sailer, Yannick Parmentier, Michael Rosner, Victoria Rosén, Adam Przepiórkowski, Cvetana Krstev, Veronika Vincze, Beata Wójtowicz, Gyri Smørdal Losnegaard, Carla Parra Escartín, Jakub Waszczuk, Mathieu Constant, Petya Osenova, Federico Sangati. In proceedings of 7th Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics (LTC 2015), Poznań, Poland.

Proceedings

  1. Proceedings of the Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF) 2015 Workshop. Emily Bender, Lori Levin, Stefan Müller, Yannick Parmentier, Aarne Ranta.

2014

Journal

  1. Model-Theory and Implementation of Property Grammars with Features. Denys Duchier, Thi-Bich-Hanh Dao, Yannick Parmentier. Journal of Logic and Computation, Oxford University Press (OUP).

Book chapter

  1. Constraint-driven Grammar Description. Benoît Crabbé, Denys Duchier, Yannick Parmentier, Simon Petitjean. Philippe Blache, Henning Christiansen, Verónica Dahl, Denys Duchier, Jørgen Villadsen (eds). 2014.

  2. Lexical Disambiguation in LTAG using Left Context. Claire Gardent, Yannick Parmentier, Guy Perrier, Sylvain Schmitz. Zygmunt Vetulani, Joseph Mariani (eds). 2014.

Conference paper

  1. Décrire informatiquement une langue naturelle : application à quelques langues d’Afrique. Denys Duchier, Nicola Lampitelli, Brunelle Magnana Ekoukou, Yannick Parmentier, Simon Petitjean, Emmanuel Schang. In proceedings of Colloque “Francophonie et Langues Nationales”, Dakar, Senegal.

Proceedings

  1. Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Gosse Bouma, Yannick Parmentier. Gosse Bouma, Yannick Parmentier (eds). 2014.

2013

Journal

  1. XMG : eXtensible MetaGrammar. Benoît Crabbé, Denys Duchier, Claire Gardent, Joseph Le Roux, Yannick Parmentier. Computational Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press).

Book

  1. 7th International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Language Processing (CSLP’12). Selected and Revised Papers. Denys Duchier, Yannick Parmentier. Denys Duchier and Yannick Parmentier (eds). 2013.

Proceedings

  1. Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2013 Workshop: High-level Methodologies for Grammar Engineering (HMGE’13). Denys Duchier, Yannick Parmentier.

2012

Conference paper

  1. Analyse Syntaxique par Contraintes pour les Grammaires de Propriétés à Traits. Denys Duchier, Thi-Bich-Hanh Dao, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of Huitièmes Journées Francophones de Programmation par Contraintes (JFPC 2012), Toulouse, France.

  2. Décrire la morphologie des verbes en ikota au moyen d’une métagrammaire. Denys Duchier, Brunelle Magnana Ekoukou, Yannick Parmentier, Simon Petitjean, Emmanuel Schang. In proceedings of 19e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2012) - Atelier sur le traitement automatique des langues africaines (TALAf 2012), Grenoble, France.

  3. Describing Morphologically-rich Languages using Metagrammars: a Look at Verbs in Ikota. Denys Duchier, Brunelle Magnana Ekoukou, Yannick Parmentier, Simon Petitjean, Emmanuel Schang. In proceedings of Workshop on “Language technology for normalisation of less-resourced languages”, 8th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages and the 4th workshop on African Language Technology, Istanbul, Türkiye. G. De Pauw, G-M de Schryver, M.L. Forcada, K. Sarasola, F.M. Tyers, P.W. Wagacha (eds). 2012.

  4. Metagrammars as Logic Programs. Denys Duchier, Yannick Parmentier, Simon Petitjean. In proceedings of 7th International Conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (LACL 2012, demo session), Nantes, France.

  5. Describing São Tomense Using a Tree-Adjoining Meta-Grammar. Emmanuel Schang, Denys Duchier, Brunelle Magnana Ekoukou, Yannick Parmentier, Simon Petitjean. In proceedings of 11th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+11), Paris, France.

Proceedings

  1. Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Language Processing (CSLP’12). Denys Duchier, Yannick Parmentier.

2011

Conference paper

  1. Model-Theory of Property Grammars with Features. Denys Duchier, Thi-Bich-Hanh Dao, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of 12th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2011), Dublin, Ireland.
  2. Cross-framework Grammar Engineering using Constraint-driven Metagrammars. Denys Duchier, Yannick Parmentier, Simon Petitjean. In proceedings of 6th International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Language Processing (CSLP’11), Karlsruhe, Germany.
  3. Lexical Disambiguation in LTAG using Left Context. Claire Gardent, Yannick Parmentier, Guy Perrier, Sylvain Schmitz. In proceedings of 5th Language & Technology Conference - LTC’11, Poznań, Poland.

2010

Journal

  1. TuLiPA - Parsing Extensions of TAG with Range Concatenation Grammars. Laura Kallmeyer, Wolfgang Maier, Yannick Parmentier, Johannes Dellert. Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Technical Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Conference paper

  1. Property Grammar Parsing Seen as a Constraint Optimization Problem. Denys Duchier, Thi-Bich-Hanh Dao, Yannick Parmentier, Willy Lesaint. In proceedings of Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Formal Grammar (FG 2010), Copenhagen, Denmark.
  2. Une modélisation en CSP des grammaires de propriétés. Denys Duchier, Thi-Bich-Hanh Dao, Yannick Parmentier, Willy Lesaint. In proceedings of JFPC 2010 - Sixièmes Journées Francophones de Programmation par Contraintes, Caen, France.

2009

Journal

  1. Convertir des grammaires d’arbres adjoints à composantes multiples avec tuples d’arbres (TT-MCTAG) en grammaires à concaténation d’intervalles (RCG). Laura Kallmeyer, Yannick Parmentier. Revue TAL : traitement automatique des langues, Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (ATALA) / Klincksieck.

Conference paper

  1. An Earley Parsing Algorithm for Range Concatenation Grammars. Laura Kallmeyer, Wolfgang Maier, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), Suntec, Singapore.
  2. Un Algorithme d’Analyse de Type Earley pour Grammaires à Concaténation d’Intervalles. Laura Kallmeyer, Wolfgang Maier, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles - TALN’09, Senlis, France.
  3. TuLiPA - Parsing Extensions of TAG with Range Concatenation Grammars. Laura Kallmeyer, Wolfgang Maier, Yannick Parmentier, Johannes Dellert. In proceedings of First Polish-German Workshop on Research Cooperation in Computer Science, Cracow, Poland.

2008

Conference paper

  1. Developing a TT-MCTAG for German with an RCG-based Parser. Laura Kallmeyer, Timm Lichte, Wolfgang Maier, Yannick Parmentier, Johannes Dellert. In proceedings of The sixth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 08), Marrakech, Morocco.
  2. TuLiPA: Towards a Multi-Formalism Parsing Environment for Grammar Engineering. Laura Kallmeyer, Timm Lichte, Wolfgang Maier, Yannick Parmentier, Johannes Dellert, Kilian Evang. In proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks, GEAF 2008, Manchester, United Kingdom.
  3. Convertir des grammaires d’arbres adjoints à composantes multiples avec tuples d’arbres (TT-MCTAG) en grammaires à concaténation d’intervalles (RCG). Laura Kallmeyer, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of 15e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles - TALN 2008, Avignon, France.
  4. On the relation between Multicomponent Tree Adjoining Grammars with Tree Tuples (TT-MCTAG) and Range Concatenation Grammars (RCG). Laura Kallmeyer, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA 2008), Tarragona, Spain.
  5. TuLiPA: un environnement d’analyse syntaxico-sémantique pour grammaires d’arbres. Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of First Nancy Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NaTAL’08), Nancy, France.
  6. TuLiPA: A Syntax-Semantics Parsing Environment for Mildly Context-Sensitive Formalisms. Yannick Parmentier, Laura Kallmeyer, Timm Lichte, Wolfgang Maier, Johannes Dellert. In proceedings of 9th International Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG+9), Tübingen, Germany.
  7. Using Constraints over Finite Sets of Integers for Range Concatenation Grammar Parsing. Yannick Parmentier, Wolfgang Maier. In proceedings of Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, GoTAL 2008, Gothenburg, Sweden. Bengt Nordström, Aarne Ranta (eds). 2008.

2007

Conference paper

  1. SemTAG: a platform for specifying Tree Adjoining Grammars and performing TAG-based Semantic Construction. Claire Gardent, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume Proceedings of the Demo and Poster Sessions, Prague, Czechia.
  2. SemTAG, une architecture pour le développement et l’utilisation de grammaires d’arbres adjoints à portée sémantique. Claire Gardent, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of 14e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles - TALN 2007, Toulouse, France.
  3. XMG: eXtending MetaGrammars to MCTAG. Yannick Parmentier, Laura Kallmeyer, Timm Lichte, Wolfgang Maier. In proceedings of Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles - TALN 2007, Toulouse, France.

2006

Conference paper

  1. Coreference handling in XMG. Claire Gardent, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference, Sydney, Australia.
  2. SemTAG, the LORIA toolbox for TAG-based Parsing and Generation. Eric Kow, Yannick Parmentier, Claire Gardent. In proceedings of The Eighth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG+8), Sydney/Australia.
  3. A constraint driven metagrammar. Joseph Le Roux, Benoît Crabbé, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of The Eighth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG+8), Sydney, Australia.
  4. XMG - An expressive formalism for describing tree-based grammars. Yannick Parmentier, Joseph Le Roux, Benoît Crabbé. In proceedings of 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - EACL 2006, Trento, Italy.

2005

Conference paper

  1. XMG : Un Compilateur de Méta-Grammaires Extensible. Denys Duchier, Joseph Le Roux, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of 12e Conférence Annuelle sur le Traitement Automatiques des Langues Naturelles - TALN 2005, Dourdan, France.

  2. Large scale semantic construction for Tree Adjoining Grammar. Claire Gardent, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of Logical Aspects in Computational Linguistics - LACL’05, Bordeaux/France. Philippe Blache and Edward Stabler and Joan Busquets and Richard Moot (eds). 2005.

  3. XMG: a Multi-formalism Metagrammatical Framework. Yannick Parmentier, Joseph Le Roux. In proceedings of 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information - ESSLLI 2005, Edinburgh/Scotland, United Kingdom.

2004

Conference paper

  1. The MetaGrammar Compiler: An NLP Application with a Multi-paradigm Architecture. Denys Duchier, Joseph Le Roux, Yannick Parmentier. In proceedings of Second International Mozart/Oz Conference - MOZ 2004, Charleroi, Belgium.
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