Auriane Boudin

Presentation

I hold a PhD in Linguistics, specializing in Computer Science, from Aix-Marseille Université. My doctoral research was supervised by Pr. Philippe Blache, Pr. Magalie Ochs, Pr. Roxane Bertrand, and Dr. Stéphane Rauzy. I also collaborated with Pr. Louis-Philippe Morency during a research stay at Carnegie Mellon University. I was funded by the ILCB and affiliated with both the Laboratoire Parole et Langage and the Laboratoire d'Informatique et Systèmes.

My research adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human-to-human interaction. During my PhD, I focused on conversational feedback and its role in communication. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Fyssen Foundation, working under the supervision of Judith Holler, Martin Pickering, and Kristof Strijkers on the EASE project, which investigates conversational alignment through speaker style. My research interests center on individual variability and adaptability in conversation, and how these factors shape convergence and alignment across verbal and non-verbal modalities, integrating perspectives from linguistics, cognitive science, and neuroscience.

My expertise includes:

• Creating multimodal corpora encompassing audio-video and neurophysiological data with annotations across various modalities. Notably, I created the SMYLE corpus.
• Engaging in computational modeling and statistical analysis using interpretable multimodal features.
• Employing experimental approaches to investigate production and perception in conversation.

I would be delighted to connect with anyone interested in discussing my research or exploring collaboration opportunities. Please don't hesitate to reach out to me at auriane.boudin@univ-amu.fr

Experience & Education

Publications

Journal

1. Boudin, A., Rauzy, S., Bertrand, R., Blache, P., Houlès, M., Ochs, M., & Morency, LP. Refining the Description of Conversational Feedback through Listening Styles. Under Review.

2. Blache, P., Bolger, D., Besson, M., Boudin, A. & Bertrand, R. Neural correlates of conversational feedback. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. In Press.

3. Boudin, A., Rauzy, S., Bertrand, R., Ochs, M., & Blache, P. How is Your Feedback Perceived? An Experimental Study of Anticipated and Delayed Conversational Feedback. An Experimental Study of Anticipated and Delayed Conversational Feedback. JASA Express Lett. 1 July 2024; 4 (7) : 075201. (access)

4. Boudin, A., Bertrand, R., Rauzy, S., Ochs, M., & Blache, P. (2024). A Multimodal Model for Predicting Feedback Position and Type During Conversation. Speech Communication, 103066. (access)

5. Pellet-Rostaing, A., Bertrand, R., Boudin, A., Rauzy, S., & Blache, P. (2023). A multimodal approach for modeling engagement in conversation. Frontiers in Computer Science, 5, 1062342. (access)

6. Ochs, M., Pergandi, J. M., Ghio, A., André, C., Sainton, P., Ayad, E., Boudin, A., & Bertrand, R. (2023). A forum theater corpus for discrimination awareness. Frontiers in Computer Science, 5, 1081586. (access)

7. Amoyal, M., Bertrand, R., Bigi, B., Boudin, A., Meunier, C., Pallaud, B., Priego-Valverde, B., Rauzy, S., & Tellier, M. (2022). Principes et outils pour l’annotation des corpus. Travaux Interdisciplinaires sur la Parole et le Langage, 38. (access)

Conference

1. Favre, B., Boudin, A. (In Press). Do audio-visual tokenizers capture backchannels?

2. Silem, O., Fleig, M. A., Blache, P., Boudin, A., Oufaida, H., & Becerra-Bonache, L. (In press). Exploring neural correlates of predictability in natural conversation: Adapting large language models for spoken dialogue.

3. Kebe, G. Y., Birlikci, M. D., Boudin, A., A., Ishii, R., Girard, J. M., & Morency, LP. (2024) GeSTICS: A Multimodal Corpus for Studying Gesture Synthesis in Two-party Interactions with Contextualized Speech. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 11, 1–10.(access)

4. Boudin, A. Derban, I., D’Ambra, A., Pergandi, J. - M., Blache, P., & Ochs, M. (2024). OUTCOME Virtual: a tool for automatically creating virtual character animations’ from human videos. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 51, 1–3.

5. Boudin, A., Rauzy, S., Bertrand, R., Ochs, M., & Blache, P.(2024). The Distracted Ear: How Listeners Shape Conversational Dynamics. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) (pp. 15872-15887).

6. Boudin, A., Bertrand, R., Rauzy, S., Houlès, M., Legou, T., Ochs, M., & Blache, P. (2023). SMYLE : A new multimodal resource of talk-in-interaction including neuro-physiological signal. In Companion Publication of the 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 344-352). (access)

7. Boudin, A., Bertrand, R., Ochs, M., Blache, P., & Rauzy, S. (2022). Are you Smiling When I am Speaking ?. In Proceedings of the Smiling and Laughter across Contexts and the Life-span Workshop@ LREC2022. (access)

8. Boudin, A. (2022). Interdisciplinary corpus-based approach for exploring multimodal conversational feedback. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 705-710). (access)

9. Boudin, A., Bertrand, R., Rauzy, S., Ochs, M., & Blache, P. (2021). A multimodal model for predicting conversational feedbacks. In International conference on text, speech, and dialogue (pp. 537-549). Springer, Cham. (access)

PhD Manucript

Boudin, A. (2024). Exploring Conversation Through Feedback: A cross-disciplinary approach. (access)

Teaching

• Systems and Dialog (16h) - Second year of Master’s Degree in Cognitive Sciences, Aix-en-Provence, France.
• Corpus (16h) - First year of Master’s Degree in Language Sciences, Aix-en-Provence, France.
• Language Technologies (11h) - First year of Bachelor’s Degree in Language Sciences, Aix-en-Provence, France.
• Semantics and Interactions (48h) - Second year of Bachelor’s Degree in Language Sciences, Aix-en-Provence, France.
• Language, Culture, and Society (54h) - First year of Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics/Educational Sciences/Sociology, Aix-en-Provence, France.

Supervisions