Myriam Bras

Myriam Bras is a Professor at the Cognition, Languages, Ergonomics (CLLE) research center at the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès. She serves as Co-head of the Languages and Language team and Co-head of the OCRE theme focused on Occitan, Romance Languages, and European Languages. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with practical applications for language preservation and education.

Professor Bras specializes in semantics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis, with particular expertise in the Occitan language. Her research encompasses temporal structures of discourse, semantics of time across lexicon, grammar and discourse, and situated linguistics focusing on language comparison in educational settings. She has developed significant computational resources for Occitan including the BaTelÒc database and TALòc tools, addressing the critical need for documentation of this UNESCO-classified endangered language.

Her recent publications (2023-2025) demonstrate a strong focus on Occitan language processing, discourse coherence analysis, and developing linguistic resources for under-resourced languages. These works reveal consistent patterns of interdisciplinary collaboration across computational linguistics, language documentation, and educational applications, particularly through European-funded projects like LINGUATEC and LINGUATEC-IA.

Professor Bras has secured substantial research funding through multiple European and national projects including LINGUATEC (2018-2021), LINGUATEC-IA (2024-2026), DiViTal (2021-2024), and RESTAURE (2015-2018). Her work demonstrates significant commitment to both theoretical linguistics and practical applications for language preservation, particularly for minority languages of France.

She leads the development of critical language resources including the CorpusArièja (a collection of 72 texts in Occitan with dialectal and spelling variation), the ParCoLab Parallel Corpus, and Loflòc (a morphological lexicon for Occitan using Universal Dependencies). These resources support both academic research and practical language revitalization efforts.