Funded projects, scientific community involvement, experimental platforms and software developments.
Research Interests
Fabrice Maurel is interested in (1) Morpho-dispositional Semantics, (2) Web Accessibility and (3) Enactive Design of Interactive Systems. In (1), his main studies focus on taking into account layout and typography information for the improvement of natural language processing (Text To Speech Systems, extractive summarization and visualization of documents, Web Page clustering). In (2), he works on multimodal access to web pages by the blind without loss of contents and cognitive efficiency. In (3) he develops haptic and concurrent speech interfaces to encourage the emergence of high-level non-visual reading strategies.
Institutional responsibilities
2024–On-goingFounder and head of DIAMANTDIAMA∩T (Documents, InterActions, Multimodal machine learning, Accessibility, nlp ∩ vision, Text analytics) - created as a cross-cutting working group of the GREYC laboratory bringing together some twenty researchers, and a fully-fledged GREYC research team since 1 September 2026.
2022–On-goingHead of the Master in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (160 students), with Gaël Dias.
2022–On-goingLead of five actions of the NORMANTHIIA and SATIN training projects (France 2030, Compétences et Métiers d'Avenir).
2016–On-goingElected member of the GREYC laboratory council and of the council of the Faculty of Science.
2016–2026Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (1,500 students): co-director from September 2016 to 2022, then director from 2022 to August 2026.
2015–2016Director of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (400 students).
2024–On-goingCo-head of the Multimodality and Multisensoriality Working Group within the CNRS Human-Computer Interaction Research Network (GDR IHM).
2022–On-goingMember of the editorial board of the journal TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues).
2022–On-goingCo-head of the "Multimodal Information Processing" working group of the IMAGE team at the GREYC laboratory.
2021–On-goingElected member of the board of the French Association of Automatic Language Processing (ATALA) as scientific ambassador (collaborations with other learned societies and CNRS research groups, PhD Thesis Award, monitoring of the LANGU:IA project, Young Talents Day).
2018–On-goingInvolvement in three Human Computer Interaction Working Groups (participation in national meetings, presentation of work and structuring of actions) | Sound Interfaces; Human Document Interaction (group no longer active); HCI and Health
2018–2020Participation in the construction meetings of the pre-GDR TAL (GDR since 2020). Interventions mainly around the Multimodality axis
2017–2023Groupe NU (New Uses): multidisciplinary reflection (computer science - GREYC, LITIS; linguistics - LiDiFra; cognitive sciences - PALM) and organisation of seminars on the instrumentation of interpretative activity.
Funded projects
2027–2031Coordinator of the STP-MEC project (an integrated approach to accessible text simplification, at the interface of natural language processing, linguistics and cognitive neuroscience, based on multimodal generative models and their experimental validation) - Funded by ANR (ANR-26-CE38-3075-02)
2026–2028Coordinator of the ECOFALC project (generative models for Easy-to-Read (FALC) simplification preserving discourse coherence and emotional intensity) - Funded by CNRS (80|PRIME programme, MITI)
2026–2029Academic partner of the EMERVA project (New varieties of plain language and embodied language awareness: perspectives for a socially inclusive AI) - comparing the simplified language produced by artificial intelligence with that produced by multilingual young people, across informative, administrative and literary texts, including poetry in plain language - Funded by CaeSAR (ExcellenceS, France 2030)
2024–2027Academic partner of the MENTAL.AI@Caesar project (Artificial Intelligence for Mental and Brain Health) - Funded under France 2030 (AMI ExcellenceS) and by the Normandy Region
2024–2027Academic partner of the HYBRIDS project (Hybrid Intelligence to Monitor, Promote and Analyse Transformations in Good Democracy Practices) - detection of toxic social-media bots and of hyperpartisan political news - Funded by the European Union (MSCA Doctoral Networks)
2024–2028Academic partner of the PARTAGES project (Advanced Development of Digital Commons for Generative Artificial Intelligence in Health) - Funded under France 2030, led by the Health Data Hub
2024–2027Work-package leader of the 2E2MR project (Text and Image Relation for Exploring and Expertising Climbing Elite Performers) - Funded by ANR
2023–2026Work-package leader of the ABC project (Text Image and Magnetic Reasonance Imaging Analysis to Understand Well-being at the Museum) - Funded by the Public Interest Group in charge of the city of "Caen Millénaire 2025 | Art et Science" initiative
2022–2025Co-supervisor of the FALC-Auto project (automatic generation of Easy-to-Read content) - CIFRE industrial partnership with the Koena association, funded by ANRT
2021–2025Work-package leader of the INDYX project (identification of relevant blocks within a web page, with the aim of integrating this technology to determine the relevance of evaluating and indexing dynamic content areas) - Funded by BPI France 2030 for Development of industrial and service companies in growth markets.
2018–2021Coordinator of the TAG-THUNDER project(Access to Web Documents by Spatialized Oral Feedback) - Funded by BPI France (PIA2)
2017Coordinator of the Tagthunder2 project(Study, Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Innovative Oral Concepts of Non-Visual Access to Texts) - Regional funding (CPER NUMNIE)
2016Coordinator of the Tagthunder1 project(Study, Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Innovative Oral Concepts of Non-Visual Access to Texts) - Regional funding (CPER NUMNIE)
2013–2016Coordinator of the ART-ADN project (Access to Digital Documents by Oral and Haptic Feedback) - Funded by ANR (12-SOIN-0003-2)
2015Member of the SEMCOMP project (Semantic Resources to Access Web Documents for E-Learning) - Regional funding (CPER)
Organisation of Events
2023–On-goingOrganization of the National PhD Thesis Award in NLP for ATALA (call for submissions, selection jury, award ceremony).
2020–On-goingIn charge of the "aTALiers" in order to improve the visibility of the research activity around Automatic Language Processing produced in the GREYC laboratory (organization of annual local and national seminars).
Creation of Multidisciplinary Experimental Platforms at GREYC Lab
2025–On-goingSructuring and development of the Smart Home project for the GREYC laboratory | Created as part of the NORMANTHIIA project, the design and setup of the 50m² room draw on expertise in computer science, electronics, and robotics to support the development of innovative teaching and internship projects. The space will include features such as oxygen sensors, floor lighting, a control room with a monitoring system, home automation equipment, a portable MRI, a contact mat for fall detection, screens, speakers, projectors, a dedicated storage area, etc.
2024–On-goingSructuring and development of the psychosensory room project for the GREYC laboratory The GREYC psychosensory room
2026Opening address, as representative of ATALA, sponsor of the event | Journée llm@hopital.fr — large language models in hospital settings | PariSanté Campus, Paris (France), 16–17 March 2026
2020Touch the web to hear it better... listen to it to touch it better. | 2nd day of the Working Group "intermodality, multimodality"of the National NLP Research Group | Marseille (France)
2019Touch the web to hear it better... listen to it to touch it better. | Rencontres Universitaires Numériques Normandes(RUNN 2019) "Accessibility and inclusion: digital technology at the service of all! | Caen (France)
2016TactiNET and Tagthunder Demo | Science Fair | Caen (France)
2016Short technical, cultural and scientific interventions on disability; trained groups who have the day to design projects, prototypes, or concepts of uses and services to people | Disability and New Technologies Day 2 - TV set - Journalist interview - Creative co-design workshops | Caen Living lab - Le Dôme (France)
2015Short technical, cultural and scientific interventions on disability; trained groups who have the day to design projects, prototypes, or concepts of uses and services to people | Disability and New Technologies Day 1 - TV set - Journalist interview - Creative co-design workshops | Caen Living lab - Le Dôme (France)
Participation in PhD Jury
2026François Ledoyen (Computer Science) | Transcription automatique de textes en Facile à Lire et à Comprendreas co-supervisor
2024Kirill Milintsevich (Computer Science) | Estimation of Depression Level from Text: Symptom-Based Approach, External Knowledge, Dataset Validity
2023Nhu Khoa Nguyen (Computer Science) | Détection des tendances émergentes dans les articles de presse
2020Laetitia Castillan (Psychology) | Accessibility of digital textbooks for students with visual impairment
2020Judith Jeyafreeda Andrew (Computer Science) | Task Oriented Web Page Segmentation as co-supervisor
2016Cyril Kudlinski (Psychology) | The Mouse, the Stylus and the Child: A Developmental Approach to Child-Computer Interactions
2016Laurent Sorin (Computer Science) | Contributions of Textual Architectures to Non-visual Accessibility of Digital Records
2016Waseem Safi (Computer Science) | Non-visual Vibro-tactile Navigation of Web Pages on Touch Screen Devices as co-supervisor
