Éric Le Ferrand, PhD

I am in Mauritius for fieldwork right now, it is 27°C and my paper has been accepted to Interspeech2026.

I understand that everything is getting more expensive but the price to register for #ACL2026 is just ridiculous. Maybe this should be wake up call? If the US are getting this pricy, start organizing conferences in other countries?

Well, see you in Computel-9 in July. New paper accepted

At that point, reading reviews is kinda funny. You will have a couple of reviewers who will provide constructive critics (good or bad) and that one reviewer who is like "BOOOOO! LAME! Next!". #interspeech

And despite multiple reminders, emergency reviewers found and all reviews in very last minute. I still have regular reviewers turning their reviews in the middle of the author's response period... #ACL2026

I've never had such a hard time getting reviews done as an AC this year for #ACL2026. I am URGENTLY in need of three reviewers to review papers on AI and UX generation and a position paper on AI and education. Please DM me with openReview credential

resharing some Bird wisdom here (the professor not the feathered creature) #page=5&zoom=100,401,196" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">arxiv.org/pdf/2512.24863… I am shocked that this paper is still facing rejection considering the number of prompt engineering craps that are accepted every ARR cycle...

Wow, the deadline for fieldmatters2026 is tomorrow! Don't forget to submit your paper! field-matters.github.io/cfp2026 See you in Rabat

The deadline for FieldMatters is this Friday! Hurry up! field-matters.github.io/cfp2026

This #ARR cycle the AC did not even read the reviews rebuttal and comments and based their meta-review solely based on the abstract.

For the past 2 years at least, as an author, reviewer and AC (1) very rarely the reviewers reviewing my papers are knowledgeable of my field (2) very rarely I am knowledgeable of the papers I need to review. (with the exceptions of workshops, journal papers, and a couple of conf

10 more days to make your submission de FieldMatters. Great venue if you are working on #NLProc endangered languages and #AI field-matters.github.io/cfp2026

FieldMatters deadline is December 19th field-matters.github.io/cfp2026 #ACL #EACL #NLProc

CFP: Fieldmatters collocated with EACL2026 in Rabat Morocco. Deadline December 19th. field-matters.github.io/cfp2026

People need to stop creating new Benchmarks that are almost 100% generated by LLMs.

I am happy to say that my latest paper Faithful Transcription: Leveraging Bible Recordings to Improve ASR for Endangered Languages, has been accepted to AACL.

The list of workshops for #EACL2026 is out! #NLProc

Oh wow! did you see that? the CFP for #fieldmatters2026 is out. Special call for scholars working on Moroccan, North African languages! aclweb.org/portal/content…

Did you know? couple of weeks ago, I was a keynote speaker at @UQAC

Have you heard? #FieldMatters workshop has been renewed for a 5th edition. See you in Rabat during #EACL2026