{"id":35,"date":"2015-06-29T13:47:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T12:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps.atilf.fr\/homepages\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:19:26","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perso.atilf.fr\/ibuhnila\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Function<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-9\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-9\">\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/perso.atilf.fr\/ibuhnila\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/2025\/04\/ATILF_BUHNILA_Ioana_PostDoc20230901-20250831_scom4-V7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/perso.atilf.fr\/ibuhnila\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/2025\/04\/ATILF_BUHNILA_Ioana_PostDoc20230901-20250831_scom4-V7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-422\" \/><\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><i> ** New position! **<\/i> <strong> HK Research Professor, Center for Data Science in Humanities, Chosun University, South Korea <\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Postdoctoral Researcher at ATILF<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\nResearch interests : biomedical NLP, personalized medicine, LLM,  RAG,  linguistics, semantics &amp; pragmatics<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<i>Associate Professor (MCF) Qualification in Linguistics (07)<\/i><br \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-9 from cache -->\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-4\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-4\">\n<tbody class=\"row-striping\">\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Email<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">ioana[*dot*]buhnila[*at*]univ-lorraine[*dot*]fr<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Address<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">ATILF (Universit\u00e9 de Lorraine &amp;  CNRS) <br \/>\n44, Avenue de la Lib\u00e9ration, 54063 Nancy, France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-4 from cache -->\n<h4><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">News<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>June 2025 &#8211; I was a <strong style=\"font-family: 'Roboto Slab'\">reviewer<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Roboto Slab'\"> for<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Roboto Slab'\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2025.aclweb.org\/calls\/student_research_workshop\/\">ACL 2025 Student Research Workshop (SRW)<\/a> (2 long papers), for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/competitions\/hallucination-detection-scientific-content-2025\/overview\">SDP 2025 Hallucination Detection for Scientific Content (SciHal)<\/a> (1 long paper) for the <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/journal\/tois\">Transactions on Information Systems Journal<\/a> (1 long paper), and for the <a href=\"https:\/\/orbicom-2025.sciencesconf.org\/?lang=en\">Orbicom Congress<\/a> (1 long paper)\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>May 2025 &#8211;\u00a0 Our <strong>workshop proposal<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/chomps2025.github.io\/\">CHOMPS (Confabulation, Hallucinations &amp; Overgeneration in Multilingual and Practical Settings)<\/a> got accepted at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afnlp.org\/conferences\/ijcnlp2025\/\"> IJCNLP-AACL 2025<\/a>, taking place in Mumbai, India, in December 2025! Happy to be part of a great organizing team! More information on the <a href=\"https:\/\/chomps2025.github.io\/\">website.<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>May 2025 &#8211; I was <strong>invited to give a talk<\/strong> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.helsinki.fi\/language-technology\/research-seminar\/\">Research Seminar in Language Technology<\/a>, at the University of Helsinki about <strong>Evaluating Multilingual Small Language Models in Medical and Educational Settings<\/strong>. I want to thank Professor J\u00f6rg Tiedemann and my fellow colleague Aman Sinha for their kind invitation! The recording of the talk and discussion with fellow researchers from the University of Helsinki is <a href=\"https:\/\/unitube.it.helsinki.fi\/unitube\/embed.html?id=db23a4c3-83a5-4640-b3ce-d3600c15ef27\">online here.<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>May 2025 &#8211; I presented an exploratory research on how well <strong>LLMs paraphrase and explain neologisms<\/strong> (new words), \u00ab\u00a0<strong>Les n\u00e9ologismes m\u00e9dicaux sont-ils bien reformul\u00e9s par l\u2019IA g\u00e9n\u00e9rative ?\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>, during the scientific event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atilf.fr\/recherche\/manifestations\/colloques\/20250516-journee-neologismes\/\">Journ\u00e9e N\u00e9ologismes<\/a>, at ATILF, in Nancy, France.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>May 2025 &#8211; I was part of the <strong>organization committee<\/strong> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atala.org\/index.php\/content\/jeunestalents-post-phd\">Journ\u00e9e Jeunes TALents post PhD<\/a>, event coorganized by ATALA et GDR TAL. This online meeting was dedicated to promoting exchanges between PhD students and NLP academic labs, startups or industry.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>April 2025 &#8211; I was <strong>invited to present my work<\/strong> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/perso.atilf.fr\/sollinge\/polysemie-et-ambiguite-lexicale\/\">GR PAL Seminar (Polysemy and Lexical Ambiguity Research Group)<\/a> @ATILF,\u00a0 on <strong>Semantic-pragmatic Functions in Specialized Discourse: a Linguistic, NLP and AI Approach<\/strong>. Thank you for this great opportunity!<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>March 2025 &#8211; I was <strong>invited to give a talk<\/strong> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/sci-tech\/business\/themes\/scc\/\">School of Computing and Communications&rsquo; Seminar, Lancaster University, UK<\/a> (online), about <strong>Small Language Models as AI Assistants in Cancer Research<\/strong>. Many thanks to Professor Paul Rayson and Research Associate Daisy Lal for their kind invitation! The presentation and the discussion with fellow researchers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/4dpicture.eu\/\">4D Picture project<\/a> and Lancaster University NLP group will be posted online. Stay tuned!<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>March 2025 &#8211; I am a <strong>reviewer<\/strong> for <a href=\"https:\/\/sdproc.org\/2025\/\">SDP 2025 (The 5th Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing)<\/a>, that will take place during <a href=\"https:\/\/2025.aclweb.org\/\">ACL 2025<\/a>, Vienna, Austria from July 27 to August 1st, 2025.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>March 2025 &#8211; I was a<strong> second reviewer<\/strong> for the February 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/aclrollingreview.org\/\">ARR reviewing cycle (ACL Rolling Review)<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>March 2025 &#8211; I was <strong>invited to give a talk<\/strong> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/snt-en\/\">Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT)<\/a> lab of the University of Luxembourg about <strong>Small Language Models and their performance in the medical field<\/strong> ! \ufe0f\u2695\ufe0fI want to thank Professor Radu State for his kind invitation and to all the passionate researchers I could talk to about Generative AI in medical multilingual tasks !<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>March 2025 &#8211; I was a <strong>reviewer<\/strong>\u00a0for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/orbicom-2025.sciencesconf.org\/\">Orbicom \u2013 ITI LiRiC CIAREI Congress \u201cCommunication, artificial intelligence, remediation, ethics and inclusion\u201d<\/a>, that will take place from September 29 to October 1st, 2025, in Strasbourg, France<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>February 2025 &#8211; I am part of the <strong>organization committee<\/strong> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/atilf-umr7118.github.io\/MLPLLM2025\/\">MLP-LLM Workshop <\/a>on Medical NLP\u00a0in the Era of LLMs <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coria-taln-2025.lis-lab.fr\/\">@<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coria-taln-2025.lis-lab.fr\/\">CORIA-TALN 2025 conference<\/a>, taking place from June 30 to July 4, 2025 in Marseille, France!<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>January 2025 &#8211; I presented my <strong>poster<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hal.science\/hal-04927075\">\u00ab\u00a0Explain this Medical Term in my Language: A Case Study of Small Language Models for Medical Paraphrase Generation\u00a0\u00bb<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr\/doku.php?id=meetings:general_meetings:3rd_unidive_general_meeting\">UniDive 3rd General Meeting<\/a>, in Budapest, Hungary!<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>January 2025 &#8211; We presented our <strong>paper<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2412.14986\">\u00ab\u00a0Chain-of-MetaWriting: Linguistic and Textual Analysis of How Small Language Models Write Young Students Texts\u00a0\u00bb <\/a>(authors: <strong>Ioana Buhnila<\/strong>, Georgeta Cislaru, Amalia Todirascu) at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/wraicogs1\/home\">WRAICOGS 2025<\/a> Workshop (Writing Aids at the Crossroads of AI, Cognitive Science, and NLP), at <a href=\"https:\/\/coling2025.org\/\">COLING 2025<\/a>, in Abu Dhabi, UAE!<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>November 2024 &#8211; <strong>Emergency reviewer<\/strong> for <a href=\"https:\/\/coling2025.org\/\">COLING 2025<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>October 2024 &#8211; <strong>Abstract accepted<\/strong> to be presented as a poster at the <a href=\"https:\/\/unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr\/doku.php?id=meetings:general_meetings:3rd_unidive_general_meeting:abstracts\">UniDive 3rd General Meeting<\/a>, in Budapest, Hungary<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>October 2024 &#8211; <strong>Presentation <\/strong>of the Adaptmed Project at the <a href=\"https:\/\/explor.univ-lorraine.fr\/explor\/journee-scientifique\/jse-2024\/\">Explor Scientific Day<\/a>, in Nancy, France<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>August 2024 &#8211; We presented our <strong>paper<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2024.knowllm-1.16\/\">\u00ab\u00a0Retrieve, Generate, Evaluate: A Case Study for Medical Paraphrases Generation with Small Language Models\u00a0\u00bb<\/a> (authors: <strong>Ioana Buhnila<\/strong>, Aman Sinha, Mathieu Constant)\u00a0at the <a href=\"https:\/\/2024.aclweb.org\/\">KnowLLM Workshop @ACL2024<\/a>, in Bangkok, Thailand!<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>July 2024 &#8211; We presented our <strong>paper<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linguistiquefrancaise.org\/articles\/shsconf\/abs\/2024\/11\/shsconf_cmlf2024_11001\/shsconf_cmlf2024_11001.html\">\u00ab\u00a0Analyse qualitative et quantitative des \u00ab hallucinations \u00bb g\u00e9n\u00e9r\u00e9es automatiquement dans un corpus de reformulations m\u00e9dicales\u00a0\u00bb<\/a> (authors: <strong>Ioana Buhnila<\/strong>, Georgeta Cislaru, Amalia Todirascu), at <a href=\"https:\/\/cmlf2024.sciencesconf.org\/\">CMLF2024 : Congr\u00e8s Mondial de Linguistique fran\u00e7aise, 2024<\/a>, in Lausanne, Switzerland!<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>June 2024 &#8211;\u00a0 <strong>Reviewer<\/strong> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sdproc.org\/2024\/\">SDP 2024 (Scholarly Document Processing) Workshop<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/2024.aclweb.org\/\">@ACL2024<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>May 2024 &#8211; We presented our <strong>paper<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2024.determit-1.14\/\">\u00ab\u00a0LARGEMED: A Resource for Identifying and Generating Paraphrases for French Medical Terms\u00a0\u00bb<\/a> (authors: <strong>Ioana Buhnila,<\/strong>\u00a0Amalia Todirascu), at the <a href=\"https:\/\/determit2024.dei.unipd.it\/\">DeTermIt! Workshop<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lrec-coling-2024.org\/2nd-call-for-papers\/\">@LREC-COLING2024<\/a>, in Torino, Italy!<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>May 2024 &#8211; We presented our <strong>abstract<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ail-workshop.github.io\/aiai-conference\/program.html\">\u00ab\u00a0Semantic and Pragmatic Proprieties of LLM\u2019s \u2018Hallucinations\u00a0\u00bb in the Medical Field\u00a0\u00bb<\/a> (authors: <strong>Ioana Buhnila<\/strong>, Georgeta Cislaru, Amalia Todirascu), at the <a href=\"https:\/\/ail-workshop.github.io\/aiai-conference\/index.html\">AIAI (Agency and Intentions in AI) Workshop<\/a>, in G\u00f6ttingen, Germany!<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>March 2024 &#8211; I obtained the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr\/ensup\/qualification\/Resultats_2024\/Qualifies_MCF_2024.pdf\"><strong>Associate Professor (MCF) Qualification in Linguistics (07)<\/strong><\/a> from France&rsquo;s National Council of Universities (CNU).<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>January 2024 &#8211; Joined the organizing committee for the <a href=\"https:\/\/neala2025.sciencesconf.org\/resource\/page\/id\/1\">NEALA colloquium<\/a> on natural and artificiel in applied linguistics, that will take place in July 2-4, 2025, in Nancy, France.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>January 2024 &#8211; Joined the organizing team for the <a href=\"https:\/\/cjcsdl.sciencesconf.org\/\">CJC, \u00ab\u00a0Langages et Identit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb<\/a>, a Young Researchers Conference, that will happen in June, 10-12, 2025, in Strasbourg, France.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>November 2023 &#8211; <strong>Presentation <\/strong>of the Adaptmed Project\u00a0(authors: <strong>Ioana Buhnila,<\/strong> Amalia Todirascu) at <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bnu.hypotheses.org\/18384\">S\u00e9minaire FRLC<\/a>, F\u00e9d\u00e9ration de Recherche en Langage et Communication<\/em>, in Strasbourg, France<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Function Contact News June 2025 &#8211; I was a reviewer for\u00a0ACL 2025 Student Research Workshop (SRW) (2 long papers), for the SDP 2025 Hallucination Detection for Scientific Content (SciHal) (1 long paper) for the Transactions on Information Systems Journal (1 long paper), and for the Orbicom Congress (1 long paper)\u00a0 May 2025 &#8211;\u00a0 Our workshop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.atilf.fr\/ibuhnila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.atilf.fr\/ibuhnila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.atilf.fr\/ibuhnila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perso.atilf.fr\/ibuhnila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perso.atilf.fr\/ibuhnila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":81,"href":"https:\/\/perso.atilf.fr\/ibuhnila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/perso.atilf.fr\/ibuhnila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.atilf.fr\/ibuhnila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}