Maud Pironneau

Holder of a Master's degree in computational linguistics from Paris VII and an EMBA from the Université du Québec à Montréal–Paris Dauphine. Director of Linguistic Development at Druide Informatique, a company specializing in language-focused artificial intelligence since 1993, which develops and markets Antidote, a writing assistance software for French and English. A natural language processing specialist for 17 years, she is responsible for backend development across five teams: one team of AI specialists who select, refine, and optimize large language models; two teams of “infolinguists” who integrate these models into the proofreader, optimize the model’s performance through symbolic code, and continuously verify output quality with a suite of in-house tools; and two teams of lexicographer-linguists who manage the dictionaries (i.e., the data), supported by a separate team that optimizes the architecture and ensures data consistency.