Paul Lerner

Dr. Paul Lerner is a researcher at the Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR), affiliated with Sorbonne University (formerly Université Pierre et Marie Curie). His work focuses on machine translation, multimodal learning, and knowledge-based visual question answering systems.

Research Interests:

• Machine translation for scientific neologisms and inclusive French
• Cross-modal retrieval in visual question answering
• Integration of knowledge bases into multimodal systems
• Development of NLP datasets for emerging tasks

Publications: Active in top venues like COLING, ECIR, and SIGIR since 2019, with recent 2025 work on BPE segmentation limitations in LLMs and scientific translation challenges.

Projects: Creator of datasets including ViQuAE (visual QA), Bazinga! (dialogue structuring), and INCLURE (inclusive translation toolkit).