Pierre Magistry
Postdoctoral Researcher at Aix-Marseille University
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
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Top SchoolPierre Magistry is a postdoctoral researcher and computational linguist with 13 years of experience specializing in semi- and unsupervised machine learning for Sinitic and less-resourced languages. He holds a summa cum laude PhD in Computational Linguistics and has led projects across France and Taiwan to bootstrap lexical resources, improve input methods, and apply morphosyntactic analysis to OCR and discourse tasks. Currently on the ERC ENEP-China project at Aix-Marseille University, he blends deep linguistic knowledge (Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien) with practical NLP engineering and graph-data designs. Known for tackling low-resource problems, he often leverages creative bootstrapping strategies rather than large supervised datasets. Based in Greater Paris, he combines academic rigor with hands-on R&D and consulting for real-world language technologies.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate School, Linguistics, Graduate School, Linguistics at National Taiwan UniversityDEUST, Computer Science, DEUST, Computer Science at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)Master, Computational Linguistics, Master, Computational Linguistics at Université Paris CitéBachelor, Oriental Studies (chinese), Bachelor, Oriental Studies (chinese) at Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientalesDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Linguistics, summa cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Linguistics, summa cum laude at Université Denis Diderot (Paris VII)
English, French, Chinese, taiwanese hokkien, German, classical chinese
Github Skills (74)
par10
active-learning9
uima9
cordova9
extraction9
lexicon9
java9
sparql9
intelligent9
entropy9
nlp8
markdown8
hackmd8
realtime8
nodejs8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
a-tsioh/koktai-scala
Feb 2017 - Jul 2022
re-organizing the parser for koktai data
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 5 months
organizingparser
a-tsioh/eleve
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Extraction de LExique par Variation d'Entropie - Lexicon extraction based on the variation of entropy
Contributions:1 PR, 37 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 2 months
nlpentropyextractionvariationpar
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