Éric Le Ferrand
PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Adjunct Instructor of French
Scholarly Interests
Computational Linguistics; Automatic Speech Recognition; Language Documentation
Education
- PhD Computer Science, Charles Darwin University (Australia)
- MA Linguistics, Université Grenoble Alpes (France)
- BA Italian, Université Rennes 2 (France)
Selected Publications
- Éric Le Ferrand, Bo Jiang, Joshua Hartshorne, and Emily Prud’hommeaux. 2025. That doesn’t sound right: Evaluating speech transcription quality in field linguistics corpora. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 627–635, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Éric Le Ferrand, Zoey Liu, Antti Arppe, and Emily Prud’hommeaux. 2024. Are modern neural ASR architectures robust for polysynthetic languages?. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, pages 2953–2963, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Éric Le Ferrand, Fabiola Henri, Benjamin Lecouteux, and Emmanuel Schang. 2023. Application of Speech Processes for the Documentation of Kréyòl Gwadloupéyen. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics, pages 17–22, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Éric Le Ferrand, Steven Bird, and Laurent Besacier. 2022. Fashioning Local Designs from Generic Speech Technologies in an Australian Aboriginal Community. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 4274–4285, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
Courses Taught
- Automatic Speech Recognition (Brandeis University; Fall 2023)
- Data Science (Boston College; Spring 2024)
- Introduction du programming (Boston College; Fall 2024)
- Introduction to French 2 (University at Buffalo; Fall 2025)