--- title: "Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon — research, people and" description: "Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon (Avignon, France): 4 works on the Elamur Research site, 4 people with a page, 414 citations; its topics, units and the…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-informatique-d-avignon/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-informatique-d-avignon/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [institutions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/orgs/) / [labs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/) / Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon # Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon Research institute · LIA [Avignon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/avignon/), [France](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/france/)in the agglomeration of [Avignon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/avignon/) - [Website](http://lia.univ-avignon.fr/) - [ROR](https://ror.org/02n399288) - [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I4210119991) [**4** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-informatique-d-avignon/#works) · [**12** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-informatique-d-avignon/#authors) · [**414** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-informatique-d-avignon/#works) · [**160** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-informatique-d-avignon/#works) ## People (12) Authors with a page here who worked or studied at Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon: first those whose cited work was done most here; beside each, their citations. ### Core (4) Confirmed by their records, or by their bylines here with a fair part of their work. - [Yannick Estève](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yannick-esteve/) — current · 2003–2026 on 112 papers · 5 papers here · 746 citations - [Frederic Bechet](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frederic-bechet/) — 1997–2010 on 55 papers · 2 papers here · 205 citations - [Salima Mdhaffar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salima-mdhaffar/) — current · 2020–2026 on 45 papers · 4 papers here · 95 citations - [Haroun Elleuch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haroun-elleuch/) — current · 2024–2026 on 10 papers · 2 papers here · 37 citations **Also published with this affiliation (8)** Matched by the bylines of their papers, not confirmed: few papers there, or a small part of their work. - [Fethi Bougares](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fethi-bougares/) — current · 2025–2026 on 5 papers · 8 papers here · 27,756 citations - [Loïc Barrault](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/loic-barrault/) — 2006–2008 on 6 papers · 12 papers here · 7,873 citations - [Raphael Rubino](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raphael-rubino/) — 2009–2016 on 11 papers · 3 papers here · 2,057 citations - [Laurent Besacier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laurent-besacier/) — 1997–2020 on 7 papers · 2 papers here · 815 citations - [Benoit Favre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benoit-favre/) — 2005–2015 on 6 papers · 2 papers here · 408 citations - [Alexis Nasr](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexis-nasr/) — 1998 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 106 citations - [Mohammad Mohammadamini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-mohammadamini/) — 2020–2024 on 19 papers · 5 papers here · 33 citations - [Waad Ben Kheder](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/waad-ben-kheder/) — 2014–2018 on 11 papers · 2 papers here · 5 citations ## Works in our library (4) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). - [BioMistral: A Collection of Open-Source Pretrained Large Language Models for Medical Domains](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/labrak-2024-biomistral-collection-open-source-pretrained/) — Yanis Labrak, Adrien Bazoge, Emmanuel Morin, et al. · 2024 · 406 citations - [Toward Qualitative Evaluation of Embeddings for Arabic Sentiment Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barhoumi-2020-qualitative-evaluation-embeddings-arabic-sentiment/) — Amira Barhoumi, Nathalie Camelin, Chafik Aloulou, et al. · 2020 · 5 citations - [TuniFra: A Tunisian Arabic Speech Corpus with Orthographic Transcriptions and French Translations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/choux-2025-tunifra-tunisian-arabic-speech-corpus/) — Alex Choux, Marko Avila, Josep Crego, et al. · 2025 · 2 citations - [Ara-Best-RQ: Multi Dialectal Arabic SSL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elleuch-2026-ara-best-rq-multi-dialectal/) — Haroun Elleuch, Ryan Whetten, Salima Mdhaffar, et al. · 2026 · 1 citation ## Topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Semitic languages (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Fields [Linguistics & languages (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) · [Natural language processing (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/machine-translation/) ## Collaborates with Institutions on the bylines of the same works here; the number is the works they share. [Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-d-avignon-et-des-pays-de-vaucluse/) [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique/) [Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Université du Mans 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-d-informatique-de-l-universite-du-mans/) [Nantes Université 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nantes-universite/) [Inserm 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/inserm/) [Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-des-sciences-du-numerique-de-nantes/) [Systran 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/systran/) Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes 1 Centre d'Investigation Clinique de Nantes 1 École Centrale de Nantes 1 ## Parent and units **Part of** [Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-d-avignon-et-des-pays-de-vaucluse/) From the Research Organization Registry (ROR); those with a page here are linked. Works and people from the bylines of the papers (OpenAlex): a person listed here worked or studied at Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.