Dietrich Klakow from Saarland University has been invited to participate at the EBDVF 2021 session on “Data and AI to remove language barriers and address societal challenges” ! EBDVF 2021 will be an excellent opportunity to promote COMPRISE to the broader AI and data community.
We have the pleasure to announce the acceptance of our Dagstuhl Seminar proposal entitled “Privacy in Speech and Language Technology”! The Seminar, which was initially scheduled on January 31 – February 5, 2021, will eventually take place on August 21-26, 2022. It will cover the fields of computer science and the…
Today, Emmanuel Vincent introduced COMPRISE and the impact of European funding on research and innovation to a large audience of academic and industry researchers. This was part of a series of webinars on Horizon Europe organized by Region Grand Est. Today’s webinar called “Investing in digital technologies: from research to production, for…
Today, Emmanuel Vincent introduced COMPRISE to 8th grade pupils at Saint-Léon school in Nancy, France. This was an opportunity to tell pupils about the inner working and the limitations of current voice technologies and to explain them the role of research and innovation in building the future of Europe.
Emmanuel Vincent from INRIA gave a great presentation about COMPRISE at a seminar series at the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
The Call For Papers for the Privacy Preserving Machine Learning Workshop at NeurIPS 2020 (co- organized by our partner Aurelien Bellet, from INRIA) is open now !! This one day workshop focuses on privacy preserving techniques for machine learning and disclosure in large scale data analysis, both in the distributed…
Following the release of their white paper on voice assistants, the French data protection authority CNIL and Le VoiceLab will host a meetup on September 7 at 18:00 addressing the ethical, technical, and legal issues raised by voice assistants. Emmanuel Vincent, whose interview can be read in the white paper, will present ongoing…
Six papers showcasing COMPRISE’s research advances have been accepted for publication at Interspeech 2020 ! Privacy guarantees for de-identifying text transformations [David Adelani, Ali Davody, Thomas Kleinbauer, Dietrich Klakow] A comparative study of speech anonymization metrics [Mohamed Maouche, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Nathalie Vauquier, Aurélien Bellet, Marc Tommasi, Emmanuel Vincent] On semi-supervised…
Additional papers for the COMPRISE project have been accepted! The most recent ones will be published at the 23rd International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD’2020), and are the following: “Investigating the Impact of Pre-trained Word Embeddings on Memorization in Neural Networks” [Aleena Thomas, David Adelani, Ali Davody, Aditya Mogadala,…
Emmanuel Vincent from INRIA gave a great presentation, at VoiceTech, about the major scientific and technological challenges in speech processing that we are facing today. COMPRISE as an initiative done by our Consortium members was presented in this context!
Emmanuel Vincent from INRIA was invited for a debate entitled “What voice assistants really know about us?”. Emmanuel explained the idea behind the COMPRISE project by highlighting the need to create a methodology that will protect the users’ data, in order to ensure their privacy. This was broadcast via the Rue89 Strasbourg media! Check…
Our partner Tilde has organized a workshop for Riga’s Children’s Hospital. The workshop covered two main topics: (1) eventual use-case scenarios for two Tilde/COMPRISE demonstrators and (2) availability of data for system training and testing. Participants got brief introduction of the COMPRISE project and its objectives as well as the underlying technologies of…
Emmanuel Vincent from INRIA has been invited to participate at the Global Forum on AI for Humanity (GFAIH)! Experts from AI, social sciences, humanities, and engineering, as well as innovators, economic actors, policy makers and civil society representatives were all at GFAIH in order (i) to reach a common understanding of the perspectives…
As part of COMPRISE, the work “Private Protocols for U-Statistics in the Local Model and Beyond” [James Bell, Aurélien Bellet, Adria Gascon, Tejas Kulkarni] has been accepted for presentation at two workshops part of CCS’2019: Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy (TPDP) and Privacy Preserving Machine Learning (PPML). Congratulations to our team!…
Emmanuel Vincent, Irina Illina, and Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava demonstrated the privacy-driven voice transformation technology developed in COMPRISE as part of the Science festival at Université de Lorraine! It was a great interaction between INRIA’s members and several groups of junior high school students, students and staff of Université de Lorraine…
A great COMPRISE pitch is given @META-FORUM’2019 along with a booth! A brief overview of COMPRISE, its main goals, and fields of possible cooperation with the European Language Grid (ELG) platform were presented!
Our partner Dietrich Klakow from USAAR, expert in the field of language technologies, has been invited to participate at the EC expert consultation on language technologies and web accessibility! He gave an elevator pitch highlighting what can be realized within the next 10 or 20 years in the domain of language technology.
The first COMPRISE paper entitled “Privacy-Preserving Adversarial Representation Learning in ASR: Reality or Illusion?” [Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Aurélien Bellet, Marc Tommasi, Emmanuel Vincent] has been accepted for publication at Interspeech’2019! Great team work!
COMPRISE was broadcast on France 3 TV Channel! Emmanuel Vincent explained the aim of the project by highlighting the need to create a methodology that will protect the users’ data, in order to ensure their privacy.
COMPRISE was presented at the “Showcasing Language Technology in H2020 and CEF Telecom Projects” workshop that was held on the 26 of April 2019 in Brussels. The workshop introduced Digital Service Infrastructures and their stakeholders at Member State level to language technology related projects in the H2020 program and in CEF…
Marc Tommasi and Aurélien Bellet from INRIA are organizing the 10th edition of the privacy and data protection workshop. The workshop will take place from 9 to 11 July 2019 at Cape Hornu, in the heart of the Baie de Somme, in the Picardie region of France. The workshop is multi-disciplinary, and aims to bring…
Emmanuel Vincent gave a talk entitled Speech & deep learning : successes and grand challenges at the AI and Language for Citizens Day organized by Lorraine Université d’Excellence on March 15, 2019. Two of the four challenges listed in this talk, namely cost reduction and increased privacy, are core challenges of…
Emmanuel Vincent attended the networking session entitled Where Multilingualism, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence meet: Language Technologies for the Next Generation Internet organized by META-NET and LT Innovate at the ICT 2018 conference on December 4, 2018. A summary of the 7 projects accepted under the ICT-29-2018 call was presented, including COMPRISE. He met…