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.
Funded projects:
2018::On-going | Academic leader of the TAG-THUNDER project(Access to Web Documents by Spatialized Oral Feedback) - Funded by BPI France (PIA2)
2017 | Leader of the Tagthunder2 project(Study, Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Innovative Oral Concepts of Non-Visual Access to Texts) - Regional funding (CPER NUMNIE)
2016 | Leader of the Tagthunder1 project(Study, Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Innovative Oral Concepts of Non-Visual Access to Texts) - Regional funding (CPER NUMNIE)
2013::2016 | Chief leader of the ART-ADN project (Access to Digital Documents by Oral and Haptic Feedback) - Funded by ANR (12-SOIN-0003-2)
2015 | Member of the SEMCOMP project (Semantic Resources to Access Web Documents for E-Learning) - Regional funding (CPER)
Organisation of Events:
2020 | In 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).
2020 | Touch 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)
2019 | Touch 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)
2016 | Short 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)
2015 | Short 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)
Implications in the scientific community
2021 | Elected member of the board of the French Association of Automatic Language Processing (ATALA) as scientific ambassador.
2020 | Expert with the National Research Technology Association (ANRT)
2018::On-going | Participation in the construction meetings of the pre-GDR TAL (GDR since 2020). Interventions mainly around the Multimodality axis
2017::On-going | Groupe NU (New Uses): multidisciplinary reflection (computer science - GREYC, LITIS; linguistics - LiDiFra; cognitive sciences - PALM) and organisation of seminars on the instrumentation of interpretative activity.
Participation in PhD Jury:
2020 | Laetitia Castillan (Psychology) | Accessibility of digital textbooks for students with visual impairment
2016 | Cyril Kudlinski (Psychology) | The Mouse, the Stylus and the Child: A Developmental Approach to Child-Computer Interactions
2016 | Laurent Sorin (Computer Science) | Contributions of Textual Architectures to Non-visual Accessibility of Digital Records
Software, Hardware and Platform
2016::On-going | TagThunder - Access to Digital Documents by Haptic Feedback | demo platform
