Serge Bibauw
SSH/FIAL Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Letters (FIAL)
SSH/FIAL/ELAL Ecole de langues et lettres (ELAL)
SSH/IACS Institute for the Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies (IACCHOS)
I am an assistant professor of French language teaching at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. I am affiliated with the Institute for the Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies (IACCHOS), co-directing the Cripedis research center, and co-affiliated with Girsef. I collaborate intensely with researchers at CENTAL, CECL and TeAMM research groups. I am also an associated professor at ITEC, an imec research group at KU Leuven. I was previously a professor and a French and English teacher trainer at Universidad Central del Ecuador.
I study conversational AI for language learning, or dialogue-based CALL, more precisely task-oriented chatbots (or dialogue systems) for language learning, at the intersection of task-based language teaching (TBLT), computer-assisted language learning and natural language processing (NLP). My research focuses on the instructional design and the evaluation of the effectiveness of conversational AI for L2 proficiency development, particularly L2 vocabulary size, spoken and written L2 fluency, and longitudinal assessment of L2 proficiency in various instructed SLA contexts.
Bibauw, Serge. Apprendre les langues à l'ère de ChatGPT. Quels rôles pour l’apprenant, l’enseignant et l’IA ?. Colloque international [Retour] du Sujet et du Sens en Didactique des langues (Liège, Belgium, du 18/04/2024 au 20/04/2024).
Bibauw, Serge. Enseigner le FLE à l'ère de ChatGPT : usages et mésusage des IA génératives. 15e Congrès national des professeurs de français en Equateur (Quito, Ecuador, du 16/09/2024 au 20/09/2024).
Nikolova, Iglika ; Bibauw, Serge ; Dumont, Amandine ; Stas, Françoise ; Watrin, Patrick ; François, Thomas. Generating Contexts for ESP Vocabulary Exercises with LLMs. 13th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2024) (Rennes, du 25/10/2024 au 26/10/2024). In: Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2024), 2024. 978-91-8075-250-3.
Nikolova, Iglika ; Bibauw, Serge ; Dumont, Amandine ; Stas, Françoise ; Watrin, Patrick ; François, Thomas. LLM-Generated Contexts to Practice Specialised Vocabulary: Corpus Presentation and Comparison. 31e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2024) (Toulouse, du 08/07/2024 au 12/07/2024). In: Actes de la 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 1 : articles longs et prises de position, Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues: Toulouse, France, 2024, 472-498.
Bibauw, Serge. Observing very-short-term speaking fluency development in computer-delivered interviews. The 33rd Conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA 2024) (Montpellier, France, du 03/07/2024 au 06/07/2024).
Bibauw, Serge. Pratiquer le français avec une IA conversationnelle : entre liberté et correction, quelle interactivité importe ?. 4e Congrès européen de la FIPF (Bucharest, Romania, du 04/09/2024 au 07/09/2024).
Bibauw, Serge. Quelle interactivité importe en contexte éducatif ? Agentivité, engagement et négociation dans des dialogues avec un chatbot. Agentivité, engagement et apprentissage en (didactique des) langues dans des contextes numériques (Agi-lang) (Grenoble, France, du 12/06/2024 au 14/06/2024).
Bibauw, Serge ; François, Thomas ; Desmet, Piet. Frequency of occurrence in output helps predict incidental vocabulary learning. AAAL 2023 Conference (Portland, OR, du 19/03/2023 au 21/03/2023).
Tack, Anaïs ; Kochmar, Ekaterina ; Yuan, Zheng ; Bibauw, Serge ; Piech, Chris. The BEA 2023 Shared Task on Generating AI Teacher Responses in Educational Dialogues. Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA) (Toronto, Canada, 13/07/2023). In: Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023), Association for Computational Linguistics: Stroudsburg, PA, 2023. 978-1-351-11758-6, 785--795. doi:10.18653/v1/2023.bea-1.64.
Bibauw, Serge. Which interactivity matters in TSLL? Agency, engagement and negotiation in Conversational AI. Technology for Second Language Learning Conference 2023 (Iowa State University, Aimes, IA, du 19/10/2023 au 21/10/2023).
Bibauw, Serge ; Van den Noortgate, Wim ; François, Thomas ; Desmet, Piet. Dialogue systems for language learning: a meta-analysis. In: Language Learning & Technology, Vol. 26, no. 1, p. 1-24 (2022).
Bibauw, Serge ; François, Thomas ; Desmet, Piet. Dialogue Systems for Language Learning: Chatbots and Beyond. In: Ziegler, Nicole; González-Lloret, Marta, The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Technology (Routledge Handbooks in Second Language Acquisition), Routledge: New York, 2022, p. 121-135. 9781351117586. doi:10.4324/9781351117586-12.
Bibauw, Serge. Aportes y límites de las tecnologías educativas: unas lecciones de la pandemia. VII Congreso Ciencia, Sociedad e Investigación universitaria (CSIU7) (Ambato, Ecuador, du 17/10/2022 au 21/10/2022).
Bibauw, Serge ; François, Thomas ; Desmet, Piet. Can we detect short term fluency development after 2 hours of chat with a dialogue system?. CALICO Annual Conference 2022 (Seattle, WA, du 01/06/2022 au 04/06/2022).
Bibauw, Serge. Intelligence artificielle et FLE: outils pour enseignants et apprenants. 14e Congrès National des Professeurs de Français (Quito, Équateur, du 27/09/2022 au 30/09/2022).
Bibauw, Serge ; François, Thomas ; Desmet, Piet. Automatizing L2 fluency measurement: Validity and developmental sensitivity of temporal fluency metrics variations. AILA 2021 (Gröningen, NL, du 17/08/2021 au 20/08/2021).
Bibauw, Serge ; François, Thomas ; Desmet, Piet. Discussing with a computer to practice a foreign language: research synthesis and conceptual framework of dialogue-based CALL. In: Computer Assisted Language Learning, Vol. 32, no. 8, p. 827-877 (2019). doi:10.1080/09588221.2018.1535508.
Bibauw, Serge ; François, Thomas ; Desmet, Piet. Effects of interactivity of written practice on incidental vocabulary acquisition. Vocab@Leuven International Conference (Leuven, Belgium, du 01/07/2019 au 03/07/2019).
Bibauw, Serge ; François, Thomas ; Desmet, Piet. Interactivity in dialogue-based CALL practice: effects on learners perceptions and production. EUROCALL Conference 2019: "CALL and Complexity" (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, du 28/08/2019 au 31/08/2019).
Bibauw, Serge ; Van den Noortgate, Wim ; François, Thomas ; Desmet, Piet. Dialogue-based CALL: a multilevel meta-analysis. LEAD Summer School in L2 Acquisition (Tübingen, Germany, du 23/07/2018 au 27/07/2018).
Bibauw, Serge. Dialogue-based CALL: a multilevel meta-analysis. Werkgroep over Taal seminar (VUB) (Brussels, Belgium, 30/11/2018).
Bibauw, Serge. Enseignement-apprentissage des langues assisté par ordinateur : état de la recherche et des applications. 12e Congrès national des professeurs de français d’Équateur (Quito, Ecuador, du 12/09/2018 au 14/09/2018).
Bibauw, Serge ; Van den Noortgate, Wim ; François, Thomas ; Desmet, Piet. Insights from a multilevel meta-analysis on the effectiveness of dialogue-based CALL. XIXth International CALL Research Conference: CALL Your Data (Bruges, Belgium, du 04/07/2018 au 06/07/2018).
Lison, Pierre ; Bibauw, Serge. Not all dialogues are created equal: Instance weighting for neural conversational models. SIGDIAL 2017 (Saarbrücken, Germany, du 15/08/2017 au 17/08/2017). In: Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, ACL, 2017. 978-1-945626-82-1, p. 384–394.
Bibauw, Serge ; François, Thomas ; Desmet, Piet. The effectiveness of dialogue-based CALL on L2 proficiency development: a meta-analysis. CALICO Conference 2017 (Flagstaff, AZ, du 18/05/2017 au 19/05/2017).
Bibauw, Serge ; François, Thomas ; Desmet, Piet. Instructional design and natural language processing in dialogue-based CALL. CALICO 2016 (East Lansing, MI, du 11/05/2016 au 13/05/2016).
Bibauw, Serge ; François, Thomas ; Desmet, Piet. Conversational agents for language learning: state of the art and avenues for research on task-based agents. CALICO 2015 (Boulder, CO, du 27/05/2015 au 29/05/2015).
Bibauw, Serge ; François, Thomas ; Desmet, Piet. Dialogue-based CALL: an overview of existing research. EUROCALL 2015 (Padova, du 27/08/2015 au 29/08/2015). In: Critical CALL – Proceedings of the 2015 EUROCALL Conference, Padova, Italy, Research-publishing.net, Research-publishing.net: Dublin, 2015. 978-1-908416-29-2, p. 57-64. doi:10.14705/rpnet.2015.000310. doi:10.14705/rpnet.2015.000310.
Slingeneyer, Marc ; Bibauw, Serge. Des pratiques réflexives au 3e degré du secondaire : pourquoi ? comment ?. In: Enjeux : revue de formation continuée et de didactique du français, Vol. 77, p. 45-82 (2010).
Bibauw, Serge ; Dufays, Jean-Louis. Les pratiques d'écriture réflexive en contexte de formation générale. In: Repères pédagogiques, no. 2, p. 13-29 (2010).
Bibauw, Serge. Écriture réflexive et réflexion critique dans l’exercice du compte rendu. In: Revue internationale de pédagogie de l'enseignement supérieur, Vol. 26, no.1 (10/05/2010).