2026 Laurent Besacier: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	41	8854	8603	212	207	357	6943

Overview

Laurent Besacier is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and specializes primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their research predominantly focuses on Artificial Intelligence, with additional work encompassing Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Molecular Biology, Information Systems, and Literature and Literary Theory.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

Natural Language Processing Techniques
Topic Modeling
Speech and Dialogue Systems
Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
ICT in Developing Communities
Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

Laurent Besacier has contributed to several scientific publications across various venues. The most frequent publishing platforms are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Interspeech 2022
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Machine Translation
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent research papers include:

"Divide and Rule: Effective Pre-Training for Context-Aware Multi-Encoder Translation Models" (2022), published in Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
"On the Evaluation of Machine Translation for Terminology Consistency" (2021), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
"A Study of Gender Impact in Self-supervised Models for Speech-to-Text Systems" (2022), presented at Interspeech 2022
"Learning From Failure: Data Capture in an Australian Aboriginal Community" (2022), published in Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
"BERT, can HE predict contrastive focus? Predicting and controlling prominence in neural TTS using a language model" (2022), presented at Interspeech 2022

In addition to journal and conference articles, Besacier has contributed to book publications, including "Statistical Language and Speech Processing" (2020) through Springer Science+Business Media.

Collaborating frequently with other researchers, Laurent Besacier's prominent coauthors include:

Marcely Zanon Boito
Alexandre Bérard
Marco Dinarelli
Yannick Estève
Vassilina Nikoulina

Best Publications

Automatic speech recognition for under-resourced languages: A survey

Laurent Besacier;Etienne Barnard;Alexey Karpov;Tanja Schultz

570
Citations
Listen and Translate: A Proof of Concept for End-to-End Speech-to-Text Translation

Alexandre Bérard;Olivier Pietquin;Laurent Besacier;Christophe Servan

200
Citations
FlauBERT: Unsupervised Language Model Pre-training for French

Hang Le;Loïc Vial;Jibril Frej;Vincent Segonne

199
Citations
Step-by-step and integrated approaches in broadcast news speaker diarization

Sylvain Meignier;Sylvain Meignier;Daniel Moraru;Corinne Fredouille;Jean-François Bonastre

186
Citations
End-to-End Automatic Speech Translation of Audiobooks

Alexandre Berard;Laurent Besacier;Ali Can Kocabiyikoglu;Olivier Pietquin

185
Citations
The zero resource speech challenge 2017

Ewan Dunbar;Xuan Nga Cao;Juan Benjumea;Julien Karadayi

176
Citations
Listen and Translate: A Proof of Concept for End-to-End Speech-to-Text Translation

Alexandre Berard;Olivier Pietquin;Christophe Servan;Laurent Besacier

164
Citations
Information extraction from sound for medical telemonitoring

D. Istrate;E. Castelli;M. Vacher;L. Besacier

163
Citations
Automatic sound detection and recognition for noisy environment

Alain Dufaux;Laurent Besacier;Michael Ansorge;Fausto Pellandini

155
Citations
The Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2019: TTS Without T.

Ewan Dunbar;Robin Algayres;Julien Karadayi;Mathieu Bernard

122
Citations
Augmenting Librispeech with French Translations: A Multimodal Corpus for Direct Speech Translation Evaluation

Ali Can Kocabiyikoglu;Laurent Besacier;Olivier Kraif

116
Citations
Breaking the unwritten language barrier: the BULB project

Gilles Adda;Sebastian Stüker;Martine Adda-Decker;Martine Adda-Decker;Odette Ambouroue

115
Citations
Automatic Speech Recognition for Under-Resourced Languages: Application to Vietnamese Language

Viet-Bac Le;L. Besacier

111
Citations
GSM speech coding and speaker recognition

L. Besacier;S. Grassi;A. Dufaux;M. Ansorge

104
Citations
Pervasive Attention: 2D Convolutional Neural Networks for Sequence-to-Sequence Prediction

Maha Elbayad;Laurent Besacier;Jakob Verbeek

84
Citations
Localization and selection of speaker-specific information with statistical modeling

L. Besacier;J. F. Bonastre;C. Fredouille

84
Citations
On the Use of Morphological Analysis for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition

Mohamed Afify;Ruhi Sarikaya;Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo;Laurent Besacier

84
Citations
Subband architecture for automatic speaker recognition

Laurent Besacier;Jean-François Bonastre

77
Citations
The ELISA consortium approaches in broadcast news speaker segmentation during the NIST 2003 rich transcription evaluation

D. Moraru;S. Meignier;C. Fredouille;L. Besacier

66
Citations
Monolingual Adapters for Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation

Jerin Philip;Alexandre Berard;Matthias Gallé;Laurent Besacier

66
Citations
LeBenchmark: A Reproducible Framework for Assessing Self-Supervised Representation Learning from Speech

Solène Evain;Ha Nguyen;Hang Le;Marcely Zanon Boito

58
Citations
Lightweight Adapter Tuning for Multilingual Speech Translation

Hang Le;Juan Pino;Changhan Wang;Jiatao Gu

52
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-François Bonastre University of Avignon

Emmanuel Dupoux School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

Jakob Verbeek Facebook AI Research (FAIR) in Paris

Olivier Pietquin Google (United States)

Alan W. Black Carnegie Mellon University

Florian Metze Carnegie Mellon University

Lori Lamel University of Paris-Saclay

Tanja Schultz University of Bremen

Graham Neubig Carnegie Mellon University

Mark Hasegawa-Johnson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

External Links

Personal website of Laurent Besacier Google Scholar page

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