Presentations

Invited Talks

2026

• Buhnila Ioana. (2026). HalluGuard: Evidence-Grounded Small Reasoning Models to Mitigate Hallucinations in Retrieval-Augmented Generation” (ACL Findings 2026). Invited talk at the NLP Seminar, NASK National Research Institute, June 2026, Poland.

2025

• Buhnila Ioana. (2025). Evaluating Multilingual Small Language Models in Medical and Educational Settings. Invited talk at the Research Seminar in Language Technology – Spring 2025, University of Helsinki, May 2025, Helsinki, Finland.
• Buhnila Ioana. (2025). Small Language Models as AI Assistants in Cancer Research. Invited talk at the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, March 2025, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
• Buhnila Ioana. (2025). Small Language Models and their Performance in the Medical Field. Invited talk at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) lab seminar, University of Luxembourg, March 2025, Luxembourg.

Conference & Workshop Presentations with Paper Proceedings

2025

• Buhnila, Ioana. (2025). LLM-as-a-Judge Evaluation for Medical Knowledge: A Case Study on Romanian Paraphrase Generation. 3rd Conference on Recent Advances in Digital Humanities - RADH 2025, November 2025, Craiova, Romania. ⟨hal-05394523⟩
• Buhnila, Ioana (2025). Semantic and Pragmatic Annotation of Paraphrases in the Era of Large Language Models. The 50th Anniversary International Conference of the Linguistic Society of Korea, “The Growth, Challenges, and Future of Modern Linguistics in Korea”, October 2025, Seoul, South Korea. ⟨hal-05348063⟩
• Aman Sinha & Ioana Buhnila. (2025). ATILF at NTCIR-18 RadNLP 2024 Shared Task: With less radiology reports, comes less performance. NTCIR-18: Proceedings of the 18th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, June 2025, Tokyo, Japan. pp.354-358, ⟨10.20736/0002002077⟩.
• Buhnila Ioana. (2025). Explain this Medical Term in my Language: A Case Study of Small Language Models for Medical Paraphrase Generation. 3rd UniDive Workshop, January 29-30, 2025, Budapest, Hungary, pp.1-4. ⟨hal-04927075⟩
• Buhnila Ioana, Cislaru Georgeta & Todirascu Amalia. (2025). Chain-of-MetaWriting: Linguistic and Textual Analysis of How Small Language Models Write Young Students Texts. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Writing Aids at the Crossroads of AI, Cognitive Science and NLP (WRAICOGS 2025), co-located with COLING 2025, Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 19-24, 2025, pp. 1-15.

2024

• Buhnila Ioana, Aman Sinha & Mathieu Constant. (2024). Retrieve, Generate, Evaluate: A Case Study for Medical Paraphrases Generation with Small Language Models. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Language Models (KnowLLM 2024), The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), Bangkok, Thailand, August 11-16, 2024, pp. 189-203.
• Buhnila Ioana, Cislaru Georgeta & Todirascu Amalia (2024). Analyse qualitative et quantitative des «hallucinations» générées automatiquement dans un corpus de reformulations médicales. In SHS Web of Conferences (Vol. 191, p. 11001). EDP Sciences, CMLF2024 : Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française 2024, Lausanne, July, 1-5, 2024, Switzerland.
• Buhnila Ioana & Todirascu Amalia. (2024). LARGEMED: a Resource for Identifying and Generating Paraphrases for French Medical Terms. In Proceedings of the Workshop on DeTermIt! Evaluating Text Difficulty in a Multilingual Context @LREC-COLING 2024,May 20-25, 2024, Torino, Italy, ELRA and ICCL, pp. 141-151.

2023

• Buhnila Ioana & Todirascu Amalia. (2023). Évaluation d’un générateur automatique de reformulations médicales. 18e Conférence en Recherche d’Information et Applications — 16e Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en RI — 30e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles — 25e Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues, June 5-9, 2023, Paris, France, pp.80-93.
• Buhnila Ioana. (2023). Annotation lexicale et pragmatique de termes médicaux et leurs reformulations. 11e Journées Internationales de Linguistique de Corpus (JLC), July 3-7, 2023, Grenoble, pp. 99-105.

2022

• Buhnila Ioana. (2022). Identifying Medical Paraphrases in Scientific versus Popularization Texts in French for Laypeople Understanding. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP), COLING’2022, The 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, Association for Computational Linguistics, October 12-17, 2022, pp. 69–79.
• Buhnila Ioana. (2022). Le rôle des marqueurs et indicateurs dans l’analyse lexicale et sémantico-pragmatique de reformulations médicales. In 8e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française (CMLF), July 4-8, 2022, Orléans, France, SHS Web of Conferences 138: 10005.

2021

• Buhnila Ioana. (2021). Building a Corpus of Medical Paraphrases in Romanian. In Proceedings of the The 16th Edition of the International Conference on Linguistic Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing – ConsILR-2021, Iasi, Romania. ISSN 1843-911X, pp. 139-152.

2019

• Todirascu Amalia, Marion Cargill & Ioana Buhnila. (2019). Erreurs d’apprenants : typologie et annotations. In 10e Journées Internationales de la Linguistique de Corpus. Grenoble, France. ⟨hal-02940844⟩

Conference & Workshop Presentations

2026

• Ioana Buhnila, Eon-Suk Ko, Chanjun Chun, Jae-Hun Jung, Jiho Lee, Sung Hyu Chon. (2026). Evaluating Whisper-Based Automatic Transcription of Korean Child-Directed Speech. 2026 Spring Joint Conference of the Korean Society of Phonetics and the Korean Society of Phonology, “Exploring the New Landscape of Speech Sciences: Key Issues, Data, and Methods in Focus”, Jun 2026, Seoul, South Korea. ⟨hal-05670324⟩
• Louise Robert, Kevin Yauy, Zeno Loi, Guilain Bochu, Ioana Buhnila, David Morquin. Utilisation en pratique courante d’un LLM (OSS-120B) pour la génération des documents de sortie : évaluation multidimensionnelle dans le cadre d’un essai randomisé contrôlé aux Urgences Pédiatriques. Actes de la journée d’étude sur l’utilisation des LLM à l’hôpital. Journée llm@hopital.fr (Journée d’étude ATALA), Éditeurs : Romain Michelucci, Bastien Rance, Adrien Coulet, March 16-17, 2026, Paris, France. ⟨hal-05556971⟩
• Buhnila, Ioana. (2026). Tutorial: Whisper Tools for Long-form Audio Data Processing. 3rd POSTECH MINDS-Chosun CDS Joint Workshop “Human Language Acquisition through Machine Learning and AI”, January 2026, Jeju Island, South Korea. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.18918477⟩. ⟨hal-05517236⟩.

2025

• Buhnila, Ioana. (2025). Beyond LENA: Open-Source NLP & AI Tools for Audio Data. Tutorial Workshop on Long-Form Audio Data in Language & Cognition, Center for Data Science in Humanities, Chosun University, September 2025, Gwangju, South Korea. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.18918375⟩. ⟨hal-05267180⟩
• Buhnila, Ioana. (2025). Linguistic Analysis of Biomedical Texts with Natural Language Processing Methods and Large Language Models. HK 3.0 Workshop “Language, Cognition, and Society: A Data-Driven Lifespan Perspective”, Center for Data Science in Humanities, Chosun University, September 2025, Gwangju, South Korea.
• Buhnila Ioana. (2025). Les néologismes médicaux sont-ils bien reformulés par l’IA générative ? Journée « Néologismes », Axe Lexiques, ATILF, Université de Lorraine-CNRS, May 16, 2025, Nancy, France. ⟨hal-05098005⟩
• Buhnila Ioana. (2025). Fonctions sémantico-pragmatiques dans le discours spécialisé : approche linguistique, TAL et IA. GR PAL, ATILF (Groupe de recherche Polysémie et Ambiguïté Lexicale), April 29, 2025, Nancy, France. ⟨hal-05065236⟩

2024

• Buhnila Ioana. (2024). Adaptmed Project. Journée Scientifique eXplor (JSE), October 10, 2024, Nancy, France. ⟨hal-04884785⟩
• Buhnila Ioana, Cislaru Georgeta & Amalia Todirascu. (2024). Semantic and Pragmatic Proprieties of LLM’s “Hallucinations” in the Medical Field. Agency and Intentions in Artificial Intelligence (AIAI) Workshop, University of Göttingen, Germany, May 16-17, 2024.

2023

• Todirascu Amalia & Buhnila Ioana. (2023). Ressources pour l’adaptation des textes dans le domaine médical : le projet Adaptmed. Séminaire FRLC, Fédération de Recherche en Langage et Communication, November 13, 2023, Strasbourg, France.
• Todirascu Amalia & Buhnila Ioana. (2023). Projet AdaptMed – reformulations des termes du Covid. Humanités numériques en pédagogie et en recherche à la Faculté des Langues (poster). University of Strasbourg, September 28, 2023.

2022

• Buhnila Ioana. (2022). Les marqueurs métalinguistiques de reformulation dans des textes médicaux scientifiques et grand public. Colloque International « Marqueurs métalinguistiques : émergence, discours, variation », June 8-9, 2022, University of Iasi, Romania.
• Buhnila Ioana. (2022). Étude contrastive des marqueurs de reformulation des termes médicaux dans de corpus scientifiques et de vulgarisation médicale. COLDOC22, Colloque de doctorants et de jeunes chercheurs en Sciences du langage du laboratoire MoDyCo (CNRS UMR 7114), May 30-31, 2022, Paris Nanterre University.
• Buhnila Ioana. (2022). Un corpus de reformulations dans le domaine médical. Séminaire « Lexique(s), discours et transposition(s) », Thème 1, LiLPa UR 1339, 10 juin 2022, Université de Strasbourg.
• Buhnila Ioana. (2022). Un corpus de reformulations médicales pour l’apprentissage automatique par réseaux de neurones. Doctoriales de LiLPa, 24 juin 2022, Université de Strasbourg.

2021

• Buhnila Ioana. (2021). Annotation automatique des termes médicaux pour l’identification des marqueurs de reformulation médicale. Doctoriales de LiLPa, 25 juin 2021, Université de Strasbourg.

Science Popularization Talks

• Buhnila Ioana. (2024). L’IA peut-elle nous aider à être en meilleure santé ? Pint of Science, Global Science Festival, Strasbourg.
• Buhnila Ioana. (2023). Les IA, les écrivaines de demain ? Pint of Science, Global Science Festival, Strasbourg.
• Buhnila Ioana. (2022). Les IA parlent-elles vraiment les mêmes langues que nous ?</a> Journée Numérique en Commun (NEC), science popularization event organized by Strasbourg Eurometropolis.
• Buhnila Ioana. (2022). Les IA qui nous parlent : assistants vocaux ou assistantes vocales ? Dis Siri, est-ce que tu mème ? Pint of Science, Global Science Festival, Strasbourg.
• Buhnila Ioana. (2022). Dans quelle langue parlent les intelligences artificielles ? Cultural Center CASF, Bischwiller, March 10, 2022.
• Buhnila Ioana. (2021). Quelle est la langue de l’intelligence artificielle ? EST’ival des Sciences organized by Association Communicasciences, July 9, 2021, Haguenau.
• Buhnila Ioana. (2019). Comment parle-t-elle l’intelligence artificielle ? Nom de code : IA. Pint of Science, Global Science Festival, Strasbourg.