Meet the 𝓔𝓿𝓸𝕃𝕖𝕩 team

𝓔𝓿𝓸𝕃𝕖𝕩 is a scientific project started in 2025, and hosted at LaTTiCe (CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, Université Sorbonne nouvelle), a Paris-based research department specializing in theoretical and computational linguistics.

AF The 𝓔𝓿𝓸𝕃𝕖𝕩 project is led by Alexandre François (Senior researcher at CNRS at LaTTiCe). After an education in classical languages and Indo-European reconstruction, François works on historical linguistics, and applies the comparative method to Austronesian languages of the Pacific.
𝓔𝓿𝓸𝕃𝕖𝕩 was born out of an ongoing collaboration with Mathieu Dehouck (Junior researcher at LaTTiCe), an expert of NLP and computational linguistics. MD
KH During the year 2025–26, the 𝓔𝓿𝓸𝕃𝕖𝕩 dataset is also looked after by Konstantin Henke, the programming engineer of the HéLiCéO project.

For any query regarding 𝓔𝓿𝓸𝕃𝕖𝕩, contact alexandre.francois@ens.psl.eu.
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