# French NLP - Introduction đŸ‡«đŸ‡· **URL:** \ **Category:** Languages at Hugging Face\ **Created:** [March 4, 2021, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/french-nlp-introduction/4143 "2021-03-04T09:40:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thomasvrancken](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/thomasvrancken/32/2067_2.png) [@thomasvrancken](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/thomasvrancken)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/french-nlp-introduction/4143/1 "2021-03-04T09:40:09Z")
Bonjour Ă  tous! đŸ€— đŸ‡«đŸ‡· đŸ„ This is the introduction thread for French NLP enthusiasts. Let’s share on experiences, models, datasets, research, 
 or any topic related to NLP and la langue de MoliĂšre! To get started, please introduce yourself with any of the following: - Your name, Github, Hugging Face, and/or Twitter handle - Some projects you are working on or interested in starting - Any potential directions you have in mind for the Hugging Face Italian community - Anything else you’d like to share! E.g. I’m Thomas Vrancken (ThomasVrancken on Github, @VranckenThomas on Twitter - to make it original 😛). I’m an MSc in AI graduate (Maastricht University), and I have experience in NLP research (Philips R&D), data science consulting (YGroup) and now I’m in the coolest ML consulting firm in Belgium - ML6! I’m absolutely passionated about ML and NLP and pretty active in our NLP chapter. We do a lot of nice stuff, feel free to check our bi-weekly [tips-of-the-week](https://github.com/ml6team/quick-tips/tree/main/nlp) (we’ve been doing it internally for a while and recently started going public with some, more to come soon!) and trained non-English [transformers models](https://huggingface.co/ml6team) (currently in Dutch/German but FR on the backlog!). Looking forward to meet more FR-NLP enthusiasts! ---
**Author:** ![yjernite](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/yjernite/32/2239_2.png) [@yjernite](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/yjernite)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/french-nlp-introduction/4143/2 "2021-03-04T16:05:15Z")
Haha with all of us French people working at Hugging Face you’d think we would have started this thread earlier! “Les cordonniers sont les plus mal chaussĂ©s” 😉 Welcome and thanks for starting this group! ---
**Author:** ![assansanogo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@assansanogo](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/assansanogo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/french-nlp-introduction/4143/3 "2021-03-22T18:52:50Z")
Bonjour Ă  vous ! Hi guyz, thanks for the initiative ! MĂȘme si la computer vision reste ma prĂ©fĂ©rĂ©e, le nlp n’est pas mal non plus 😉 Welcome to the newcomers! Cheers. ---
**Author:** ![sancelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@sancelot](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/sancelot)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/french-nlp-introduction/4143/4 "2023-11-09T14:57:57Z")
Hi guys, I am working in R&D department in a manufacturing company. Working on nlp for different kind of tasks. embeddings, automated translations 
 Greetings from France 
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**Author:** ![Borstel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Borstel](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Borstel)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/french-nlp-introduction/4143/5 "2024-01-18T14:35:39Z")
Bonjour ! Je suis Ă©tudiant en France et je m’intĂ©resse beaucoup aux applications des LLM dans le domaine de la santĂ© ainsi que dans la gestion des bases de connaissances, les deux impliquant un certain niveau de confidentialitĂ©. **Mon objectif actuel est de rendre mes notes personnelles** (cours, journal quotidien, notes de livres, etc.) **disponible Ă  un LLM afin de pouvoir “discuter” avec elles** : faire des recherches en langage naturel et non par mot-clĂ©s, faire des recherches de similitudes afin d’essayer de trouver des connexions lĂ  oĂč je n’en vois pas spontanĂ©ment, etc. Apparemment, la technique la plus appropriĂ©e pour cela est le **Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)** (corrigez moi si je me trompe 😉 ) J’ai testĂ© plusieurs LLM Open Source et j’ai l’impression qu’ **aucun ne maĂźtrise vraiment la langue française**. Certains ne parlent français que sous la contrainte et loin de moi l’envie de les faire souffrir đŸ„ș Je vais donc me tourner vers **Vigogne** que je n’avais pas considĂ©rĂ© pour l’instant. Quelqu’un l’a-t-il dĂ©jĂ  essayĂ© ? Qu’en pensez-vous ? Au plaisir de vous lire 😃 * * * Hello ! I’m a student in France and I’m very interested in LLM applications in the healthcare field as well as in knowledge base management, both implying a certain level of confidentiality. **My current goal is to make my personal notes** (lectures, daily journal, book notes, etc.) **available to an LLM so that I can “discuss” with them** : search in natural language and not by keywords, do similarity searches to try to find connections where I don’t spontaneously see any, etc. Apparently, the most appropriate technique for this is **Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)**. (correct me if I’m wrong 😉 ) I’ve tested several Open Source LLMs and I get the impression that **none of them really master the French language**. Some only speak French under duress and far be it from me to make them suffer đŸ„ș So I’m going to turn to **Vigogne** which I hadn’t considered for the moment. Has anyone tried it? What do you think of it? Looking forward to hearing from you 😃