Publications
cental | Louvain-la-Neuve
-
-
2027
-
2025
-
Zakhia Doueihi, J., & François, T. (2025). Diathesis and Valency Changes in Pronominal-Verbal Constructions in French. French Studies : a quarterly review, 79(3), 474-502. https://doi.org/10.3828/fs.2025.79.3.8 (Original work published 2025)
-
Pham, T. H. T., Cardon, R., Souza Wilkens, R., Trân, V., & François, T. (2025). Être un genre ou ne pas être : le cas des sites web d’agences de voyages. ELAD-SILDA, 12(12). https://doi.org/10.35562/elad-silda.1791 (Original work published 2025)
-
2024Peng, S., Sun, Z., Loftus, S., & Plank, B. (2024). Different Tastes of Entities: Investigating Human Label Variation in Named Entity Annotations. Workshop on Understanding Implicit and Underspecified Language, 3, 73-81. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.unimplicit-1.7 (Original work published 2024)
-
Gribomont, I., & Berck, A. (2024). Bases de données et littérature numérique (belge) : une perspective décoloniale. Nouveaux cahiers de Marge, 8(1), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.35562/marge.863 (Original work published 2024)
-
François, T., & Alfter, D. (2024). Graded Resources for Second and Foreign Language Learning. ITL : international journal of applied linguistics, 175(1), 1-162. https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.175.1 (Original work published 2024)
-
François, T., & Gala, N. (2024). Graded resources for learning and teaching foreign languages : An overview. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 175(1), 8-24. https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.00024.fra (Original work published 2024)
-
Todirascu, A., François, T., & Cargill, M. (2024). PolylexFLE : A MWE database for French L2 language learners. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 175(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.22031.tod (Original work published 2024)
-
Alfter, D., & François, T. (2024). Graded resources for second and foreign language learning. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 175(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.00025.alf (Original work published 2024)
-
2022
-
-
Müller, A., & François, T. (2022). Pratiques de rédaction claire de rédacteurs fonctionnels en Belgique francophone. Discourse and Writing = Rédactologie, 32, 59-72. https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.955 (Original work published 2022)
-
Javourey-Drevet, L., Dufau, S., François, T., Gala, N., Ginestié, J., & Ziegler, J. C. (2022). Simplification of literary and scientific texts to improve reading fluency and comprehension in beginning readers of French. Applied Psycholinguistics : psychological and linguistic studies across languages and learners, 43(2), 485-512. https://doi.org/10.1017/s014271642100062x (Original work published 2022)
-
2021Zakhia Doueihi, J., & François, T. (2021). Concept-based instruction for applied L2 acquisition : Systematic review. Pedagogical Linguistics, 3(1), 84-107. https://doi.org/10.1075/pl.21006.zak (Original work published 2021)
-
Müller, A., Clerc, I., & François, T. (2021). Plain language practices of professional writers in Quebec. Discourse and Writing = Rédactologie, 31, 49-74. https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.849 (Original work published 2021)
-
Yancey, K., Pintard, A., & François, T. (2021). Investigating readability of French as a foreign language with deep learning and cognitive and pedagogical features. Lingue e Linguaggio, 2021(2), 229-258. https://doi.org/10.1418/102814 (Original work published 2021)
-
2020Norré, M. (2020). Evaluation of a Word Prediction System in an Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Disabled People. Modelling, Measurement and Control C, 81(1-4), 49-54. https://doi.org/10.18280/mmc_c.811-409 (Original work published 2020)
-
Dister, A., & Naets, H. (2020). Les Rectifications de l’orthographe en Belgique francophone : de la politique linguistique aux pratiques des écoliers et de la presse. Cahiers de Praxématique, 74. https://doi.org/10.4000/praxematique.6569 (Original work published 2020)
-
Meunier, F., Hendrikx, I., Bulon, A., Van Goethem, K., & Naets, H. (2020). MulTINCo: Multilingual Traditional Immersion and Native Corpus. Better-documented multi-literacy practices for more refined SLA studies. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 26(5), 572-589. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2020.1786494 (Original work published 2020)
-
2019Bibauw, S., François, T., & Desmet, P. (2019). Discussing with a computer to practice a foreign language: research synthesis and conceptual framework of dialogue-based CALL. Computer Assisted Language Learning : an international journal, 32(8), 827-877. https://doi.org/10.1080/09588221.2018.1535508 (Original work published 2019)
-
Stolowy, N., Calabrèse, A., Sauvan, L., Aguilar, C., François, T., Gala, N., Matonti, F., & Castet, E. (2019). The influence of word frequency on word reading speed when individuals with macular diseases read text. Vision Research, 155, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2018.12.002 (Original work published 2019)
-
2018
-
-
-
2017
-
2014
-
-
Brognaux, S., & Drugman, T. (2014). Variations phonétiques: Impact de la situation de communication. Nouveaux Cahiers de Linguistique Francaise, 31, p. 335. (Original work published 2014)
-
2013
-
-
Constant, M., Blanc, O., & Watrin, P. (2013). Accounting for Contiguous Multiword Expressions in Shallow Parsing. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, 99(1), 57-73. https://doi.org/10.2478/pralin-2013-0004 (Original work published 2013)
-
-
2012
-
-
-
Bestgen, Y., & Vincze, N. (2012). Checking and bootstrapping lexical norms by means of word similarity indexes. Behavior Research Methods, 44(4), 998-1006. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-012-0195-z (Original work published 2012)
-
Lependu, P., Iyer, S. V., Fairon, C., & Shah, N. H. (2012). Annotation Analysis for Testing Drug Safety Signals using Unstructured Clinical Notes. Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 3, S5. https://doi.org/10.1186/2041-1480-3-S1-S5 (Original work published 2012)
-
-
-
2026
-
-
-
2025
-
2024Souza Wilkens, R., Watrin, P., & François, T. (2024). Paying attention to the words: explaining readability prediction for French as a foreign language. In Rodrigo Wilkens, Rémi Cardon, Amalia Todirascu and Núria Gala (ed.), Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) (p. p. 102-115). ELRA Language Resource Association.
-
Segonne, V., Mannion, A., Alonzo Canul, L. C., Audibert, A., Liu, X., Macaire, C., Pupier, A., Zhou, Y., Aguiar, M., Herron, F., Norré, M., Amini, M.-R., Bouillon, P., Eshkol-Taravella, I., Esperança-Rodier, E., François, T., Goeuriot, L., Goulian, J., Lafourcade, M., et al. (2024). Jargon: A Suite of Language Models and Evaluation Tasks for French Specialized Domains. Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, 9463-9476. (Original work published 2024)
-
Nikolova, I., Bibauw, S., Dumont, A., Stas, F., Watrin, P., & François, T. (2024). Generating Contexts for ESP Vocabulary Exercises with LLMs. Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2024). Published. 13th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2024), Rennes.
-
Norré, M., Pham, T. H. T., Bouillon, P., Vandeghinste, V., & François, T. (2024). Évaluation de la traduction en pictogrammes pour la communication médecin-patient par des adultes avec une déficience intellectuelle. In F. Bousefsaf, G. Thomann, Y. Morère (ed.), Proceedings de la 13e conférence de l’IFRATH sur les technologies d’assistance (p. p. 181-186). IFRATH.
-
Nikolova, I., Bibauw, S., Dumont, A., Stas, F., Watrin, P., & François, T. (2024). LLM-Generated Contexts to Practice Specialised Vocabulary: Corpus Presentation and Comparison. In Mathieu Balaguer, Nihed Bendahman, Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac, Julie Mauclair, José G. Moreno, Julien Pinquier (ed.), Actes de la 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 1 : articles longs et prises de position (pp. 472-498). Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues.
-
2023
-
-
-
-
Tack, A., Kochmar, E., Yuan, Z., Bibauw, S., & Piech, C. (2023). The BEA 2023 Shared Task on Generating AI Teacher Responses in Educational Dialogues. In Ekaterina Kochmar, Jill Burstein, Andrea Horbach, Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Nitin Madnani, Anaïs Tack, et.al. (eds) (ed.), Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023) (pp. 785-795). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.bea-1.64
-
-
Norré, M., Cardon, R., Vandeghinste, V., & François, T. (2023). Word Sense Disambiguation for Automatic Translation of Medical Dialogues into Pictographs. In Galia Angelova, Maria Kunilovskaya, Ruslan Mitkov (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2023) (p. p. 803-812). INCOMA Ltd.
-
2022
-
-
-
-
Yamaguchi, N., Alfter, D., Sugiyama, K., & François, T. (2022). Towards a Verb Profile: distribution of verbal tenses in FFL textbooks and in learner productions. In David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Thomas François, Piet Desmet, Frederik Cornillie, Arne Jönsson, and Evelina Rennes (ed.), Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2022) (p. p. 123-142).
-
-
-
-
Mutal, J., Bouillon, P., Norré, M., Gerlach, J., & Ormaechea Grijalba, L. (2022). A Neural Machine Translation Approach to Translate Text to Pictographs in a Medical Speech Translation System - The BabelDr Use Case. Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 1, 252-263. (Original work published 2022)
-
Pirali, C., François, T., & Gala, N. (2022). PADDLe: a Platform to Identify Complex Words for Learners of French as a Foreign Language (FFL). In Rodrigo Wilkens, David Alfter, Rémi Cardon and Nuria Gala (ed.), Proceedings of the LREC 2022 workshop on Tools and Resources with REAding DIfficulties (READI) (p. p. 46-53). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
-
2021
-
-
Norré, M., Vandeghinste, V., Bouillon, P., & François, T. (2021). Extending a Text-to-Pictograph system to French and to Arasaac. In Galia Angelova, Maria Kunilovskaya, Ruslan Mitkov, Ivelina Nikolova-Koleva (ed.), Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (p. p. 1050-1059). ACL Anthology.
-
-
2020Cierro, A., Philippette, T., François, T., Nahon, S., & Watrin, P. (2020). Eye-tracking for Sense of Immersion and Linguistic Complexity in the Skyrim Game: Issues and Perspectives. ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, p. 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3379156.3391836
-
-
Norré, M., Bouillon, P., Gerlach, J., & Spechbach, H. (2020). Évaluation de la compréhension de pictogrammes Arasaac et Sclera pour améliorer l’accessibilité du système de traduction médicale BabelDr. In Uzan, Gérard, Jost, Céline (ed.), Handicap 2020 : technologies pour l’autonomie et l’inclusion (p. p. 177-182). Institut Fédératif de Recherche sur les Aides Techniques pour personnes Handicapées.
-
Norré, M. (2020). Évaluation de la prédiction de mots dans un système de communication améliorée et alternative pour les personnes en situation de handicap : Presage et ACAT. In Uzan, Gérard, Jost, Céline (ed.), Handicap 2020 : technologies pour l’autonomie et l’inclusion (p. p. 183-188). Institut Fédératif de Recherche sur les Aides Techniques pour personnes Handicapées.
-
Sauvan, L., Stolowy, N., Aguilar, C., François, T., & et al. (2020). Text Simplification to Help Individuals with Low Vision Read More Fluently. In Nuria Gala and Rodrigo Wilkens (ed.), Proceedings of The 1st Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (p. p. 27-32). European Language Resources Association.
-
-
2019
-
-
-
-
-
-
Gala, N., David, C., Tack, A., & François, T. (2019). Assessing Vocabulary Knowledge for Learners of French as a Foreign Language: Accounting for L1 Variability to Go Beyond the CEFR Scale. The 27th Conference of the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL 2019), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
-
-
-
2018
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2017
-
-
-
-
-
Volodina, E., Borin, L., Pilán, I., François, T., & Tack, A. (2017). SVALex. En andraspråksordlista med CEFR-nivåer. In Emma Sköldberg, Maia Andréasson, Henrietta Adamsson Eryd, Filippa Lindahl, Sven Lindström, Julia Prentice & Malin Sandberg (ed.), Svenskans beskrivning 35. Förhandlingar vid trettiofemte sammankomsten (p. p. 369-382). Göteborgs universitet.
-
2016Panchenko, A., Faralli, S., Ruppert, E., Remus, S., Naets, H., Fairon, C., Ponzetto, S. P., & Biemann, C. (2016). TAXI at SemEval-2016 Task 13: a Taxonomy Induction Method based on Lexico-Syntactic Patterns, Substrings and Focused Crawling. 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2016), San Diego, California, USA.
-
Lemaire, N., François, T., Debongnie, J.-C., De Meyere, D., Fauquert, B., Klein, T., Fairon, C., & Van Campenhoudt, M. (2016). L’enrichissement terminologique d’usage du projet iMediate : une collaboration tripartite terminologie/TALN/sciences de la santé. La terminologie, un besoin pour la société actuelle. Published. Second Congrès international du Réseau de Lexicographie (RELEX), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
-
-
-
-
-
2015
-
-
De Meyere, D., Klein, T., François, T., Debongnie, J.-C., Radulescu, C., Mbengo, N., Ouro Koura, M., Coppieters ’t Wallant, Y., & Fairon, C. (2015). Automatic annotation of medical reports using SNOMED-CT: a flexible approach based on medical knowledge databases. In Zygmunt Vetulani & Joseph Mariani (ed.), Proceedings of the 7th Language & Technology Conference (p. p. 519-523). Fundacja Uniwersytetu im. A. Mickiewicza.
-
-
2014Brognaux, S., Picart, B., & Drugman, T. (2014). Speech synthesis in various communicative situations:Impact of pronunciation variations. In Haizhou Li, Helen M. Meng, Bin Ma, Engsiong Chng, Lei Xie (ed.), Celebrating the diversity of spoken languages : 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2014) ; Singapore, 14-18 September 2014 (p. p. 1524-1528).
-
-
-
-
-
-
2013
-
-
Gala, N., François, T., & Fairon, C. (2013). Towards a French lexicon with difficulty measures: NLP helping to bridge the gap between traditional dictionaries and specialized lexicons. In Kosem, I., Kallas, J., Gantar, P., Krek, S., Langemets, M., Tuulik, M. (ed.), Proceedings of Electronic lexicography in the 21st century: thinking outside the paper (eLEX-2013) (p. p. 132-151). Trojina, Institute for Applied Slovene Studies/Eesti Keele Instituut.
-
-
Todirascu, A., François, T., Gala, N., Fairon, C., Ligozat, A.-L., & Bernhard, D. (2013). Coherence and Cohesion for the Assessment of Text Readability. In Sharp, B. et Zock, M. (ed.), Proceedings of 10th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS 2013) (p. p. 11-19).
-
2012
-
Martin, L., Roekhaut, S., & Beaufort, R. (2012). Variations prosodiques en synthèse par sélection d’unités: l’exemple des phrases interrogatives. TALN.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Panchenko, A., & Morozova, O. (2012). A Study of Hybrid Similarity Measures for Semantic Relation Extraction. Workshop of Innovative Hybrid Approaches to the Processing of Textual Data Workshop of European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), Avignon, France.
-
-
-
-
Brognaux, S., Roekhaut, S., Drugman, T., & Beaufort, R. (2012). Automatic Phone Alignment. A Comparison between Speaker-Independent Models and Models Trained on the Corpus to Align. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7614(Advances in Natural Language Processing), 300-311. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33983-7_30 (Original work published 2012)
-
-
-
-
2025Gribomont, I. (2025). Entre modernisme, littérature combinatoire et intelligence artificielle : Le bot @AutoImagist de Zach Whalen. In Servanne Monjour et Anne Reverseau (dir.) (ed.), L’Acte d’image en littérature.
-
2023Bouillon, P., Gerlach, J., Norré, M., & Spechbach, H. (2023). Enhancing Speech Translation in Medical Emergencies with Pictographs. In Meng Ji, Pierrette Bouillon, Mark Seligman (ed.), Translation Technology in Accessible Health Communication (Cambridge University Press, p. p. 129-151). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108938976.006
-
Gribomont, I. (2023). From Diachronic to Contextual Lexical Semantic Change: Introducing Semantic Difference Keywords (SDKs) for Discourse Studies. In Nina Tahmasebi, Syrielle Montariol, Haim Dubossarsky, Andrey Kutuzov, Simon Hengchen, David Alfter, Francesco Periti, Pierluigi (ed.), Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (p. p. 153–160). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.lchange-1.16
-
2022Bibauw, S., François, T., & Desmet, P. (2022). Dialogue Systems for Language Learning: Chatbots and Beyond. In Ziegler, Nicole; González-Lloret, Marta (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Technology (p. p. 121-135). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351117586-12
-
Müller, A., & François, T. (2022). Les avancées en rédactologie influencent-elles les guides de rédaction claire en Belgique francophone? In Isabelle Clerc (Dir.) (ed.), Communication écrite Etat-citoyens. Défis numériques, perspectives rédactologiques (Presses Universitaire de Laval, p. p. 177-192). Presses Universitaire de Laval.
-
2021
-
-
Paquot, M., Naets, H., & Gries, S. (2021). Using syntactic co-occurrences to trace phraseological complexity development in learner writing: verb + object structures in LONGDALE. In Le Bruyn, B. and Paquot, M. (eds) (ed.), Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition (p. pp. 122-147). Cambridge University Press.
-
-
2017
-
2014
-
2013Cougnon, L.-A., Roekhaut, S., & Beaufort, R. (2013). Typologies de variation graphique dans l’écrit sms. In Baddeley S. ; Jejcic F. ; Martinez C. (ed.), L’orthographe en quatre temps. 20e anniversaire des Rectifications de l’orthographe de 1990 : enseignement, recherche et réforme, quelles convergences ? (pp. 129-148). Honoré Champion.
-
-
-
2025
-
2021
-
2015
-
2013
-
2012
-
-
-
2020
-
2018
-
2016Bevilacqua, S., Bibauw, S., Lousada, E., Masello, L., & Torres, V. (2016). Francophonie et langue française en Amérique du Sud : problématiques de recherche et d’enseignement. Recueil d’articles issus des colloques internationaux de Bogota (28-29 octobre 2013) et de Mendoza (4-5 décembre 2014). Universidad de los Andes.
-
2015
-
2014
-
François, T., & Bernhard, D. (2014). Recent Advances in Automatic Readability Assessment and Text Simplification. John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.165.2
-
-
-
2015
-