I'm Timothee Mickus, a postdoc at the University of Helsinki; soon-to-be research fellow from the Research Council of Finland. I was involved in a number of projects within the Helsinki-NLP team, ranging from the ERC-funded FoTran project to the Uncertainty-aware neural language model funded by the Academy of Finland, and to the CorCoDial project.

I did my PhD at ATILF, under the supervision of Mathieu Constant and Denis Paperno at Utrecht University. You can read the monograph here. My PhD research topic was on distributional semantics and dictionaries: Do dictionary definitions depict meaning in the same way as neural networks-based word vectors? Can we come up with quantitative ways of measuring how similar these two theories are? This PhD was funded by the OLKi project. It received an award from the ATALA, the French scientific society for NLP.

I also hold a Masters in Computational Linguistics from the now-Université de Paris Computational Linguistics curriculum. My thesis was on distributional effects of grammatical gender contrasts on French human nouns, which you can read here.

Welp, I signed up for yet another SHROOM shared task on hallucination detection. It's the fourth one. I can't blame anyone but myself. It's on vision and language models; we got a host of great organizers. Check it out here.

Below are some of the projects I've been working on or have previously worked on. (Incidentally, it's also a gallery of all the random puns & logos I came up with.)