Publications

Dumont, A., Bibauw, S., De Meyere, D., Watrin, P., Stas, F., & François, T. (2026, September 8). Incidental and intentional in-context ESP vocabulary learning in AI-generated exercises. EUROCALL 2026, Ulster University, Belfast.

Nicolas, L., Stemle Egon, Paquot, M., Naets, H., König, A., & Nguyen Le, C. N. (2026, September 7). Developing a Data-Oriented Reviewing Methodology to Inform a Reusability Checklist. FAIR Language Resources in NLP: Stewardship, Reuse and Long-Term Sustainability, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Norré, M. (2026). French Cued Speech Difficulties in Deaf Adults and Hearing Adults. Linguistics 2026 Paris, 1, 29. (Original work published 2026)

Cui, Y., Bibauw, S., & François, T. (2025). Influence des configurations familiales sur le bilinguisme chez les enfants sino belges francophones. 28e Colloque annuel de l’Association for French Language Studies (AFLS 2025), Bruxelles.

Souza 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.

Gribomont, I., & Mertens, A. (2023). Fiction & données : une perspective éco-décoloniale. Fiction & données, Université Lyon 3.

Deseure, B., Gribomont, I., & Le Cam, F. (2023). The Perception of Women Journalists and Feminism in Belgian Newspapers (1850-1950). FEMINISM(S) IN THE MEDIA.

Bibauw, S., François, T., & Desmet, P. (2023). Frequency of occurrence in output helps predict incidental vocabulary learning. AAAL 2023 Conference, Portland, OR.

Butler, J., & Gribomont, I. (2023). Discussing the dead: The semantic focuses of accounts around death and exhumation. Problematic Bodies, University of Liverpool.

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

Gribomont, I., Watrin, P., & Mentalechta, L. (2023). Automatic Identification and Classification of Literature on Twitter. Digital Humanities Benelux.

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.

Gribomont, I. (2022). Mapping the representation of women and the LGBTQI+ community in the coverage of the Colombian conflict in the ‘El Tiempo’ newspaper. DH Unbound.

Bibauw, S. (2022). Aportes y límites de las tecnologías educativas: unas lecciones de la pandemia. VII Congreso Ciencia, Sociedad e Investigación universitaria (CSIU7), Ambato, Ecuador.

Gribomont, I. (2022). Excavating Linguistic Patterns from Semantically Tagged Data: A Case Study of the Human Remains Digital Library. International Medieval Congress.

Gribomont, I. (2022). Introducing LabEL, a Laboratory for Electronic Literature at KBR. Literature & Computation.

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).

Todirascu, A., Souza Wilkens, R., Rolin, E., François, T., Bernhard, D., & Gala, N. (2022). HECTOR: A Hybrid TExt SimplifiCation TOol for Raw Texts in French. In Nicoletta Calzolari (Chair) et al. (ed.), Proceedings of LREC 2022 (p. 4620‑4630). European Language Resources Association.

Bibauw, S., François, T., & Desmet, P. (2022). Can we detect short term fluency development after 2 hours of chat with a dialogue system? CALICO Annual Conference 2022, Seattle, WA.

Bibauw, S. (2022). Intelligence artificielle et FLE: outils pour enseignants et apprenants. 14e Congrès National des Professeurs de Français, Quito, Équateur.

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).

Aprendizaje del inglés basado en tareas y tecnología. (2021). Aprendizaje del inglés basado en tareas y tecnología. 2.o Congreso Interancional de Educación “Yo educo”, Cuenca, Ecuador.

Bibauw, S., François, T., & Desmet, P. (2021). Automatizing L2 fluency measurement: Validity and developmental sensitivity of temporal fluency metrics variations. AILA 2021, Gröningen, NL.

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.

Norré, M., Bouillon, P., Gerlach, J., & Spechbach, H. (2021). BabelDr : un système de traduction médicale avec des pictogrammes pour les patients allophones aux urgences et dans un secteur de dépistage COVID-19. TLH et Santé, 1, 6-7. (Original work published 2021)

Cierro, 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

François, T., Müller, A., Rolin, E., & Norré, M. (2020). AMesure: A Web Platform to Assist the Clear Writing of Administrative Texts. Proceedings of the 1st Confererence of the AACL: System Demonstrations, 1-7. (Original work published 2020)

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.

Gala, N., Tack, A., Javourey-Drevet, L., François, T., & Ziegler, J. (2020). Alector: A Parallel Corpus of Simplified French Texts with Alignments of Misreadings by Poor and Dyslexic Readers. Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, p. 1353–1361.

Tack, A. (2019). Towards a contextualization of complexity to better the prediction of lexical competence in L2 reading. Colloquium “Broadening the Scope of L2 Complexity Research”, VUB Campus Etterbeek, Brussels, Belgium.

Pierson, A., & Fairon, C. (2019). Study of lexical aspect in the French medical language. Development of a lexical resource. Proceedings of the 2nd Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop, 55-64. (Original work published 2019)

Tack, A., François, T., Desmet, P., & Fairon, C. (2019). The Role of Cognate Vocabulary in CEFR-based Word-level Readability Assessment. Vocab@Leuven International Conference, Leuven, Belgium.

Tack, A., François, T., Desmet, P., & Fairon, C. (2019). The Prediction of Lexical Competence in Foreign Language Reading: A Systematic Synthesis. The 27th Conference of the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL 2019), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Paquot, M., Naets, H., & Gries, S. (2019). Tracing phraseological complexity development in a longitudinal learner corpus with verb + object co-occurrences. 2019 American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, Atlanta, USA.

Todirascu, A., Cargill, M., & François, T. (2019). PolylexFLE : une base de données d’expressions polylexicales pour le FLE. Actes de la conférence TALN 2019, p. 143-156.

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.

Bibauw, S., François, T., & Desmet, P. (2019). Interactivity in dialogue-based CALL practice: effects on learners perceptions and production. EUROCALL Conference 2019: “CALL and Complexity”, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Bibauw, S., François, T., & Desmet, P. (2019). Effects of interactivity of written practice on incidental vocabulary acquisition. Vocab@Leuven International Conference, Leuven, Belgium.

Yimam, S. M., Biemann, C., Malmasi, S., Paetzold, G., Specia, L., Štajner, S., Tack, A., & Zampieri, M. (2018). A Report on the Complex Word Identification Shared Task 2018. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 66-78.

Bibauw, S. (2018). Dialogue-based CALL: a multilevel meta-analysis. Werkgroep over Taal seminar (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.

Degrave, P., Hiligsmann, P., & Müller, A. (2018). ANA: een website over Academisch Nederlands voor Anderstaligen. Onderzoeksmarkt ANBF, France, Lille.

Tack, A., François, T., Desmet, P., & Fairon, C. (2018). Making Sense of L2 Lexical Complexity with NT2Lex, a CEFR-graded Lexicon Linked to Open Dutch WordNet. The XIXth International Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Research Conference, Bruges.

Bibauw, S. (2018). 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.

Paquot, M., Broisson, Z., Brezina, V., Gablasova, D., & Naets, H. (2018). Assessing L2 oral performance with the help of relational co-occurrences. CogLing2018, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Paquot, M., Brezina, V., Gablasova, D., & Naets, H. (2018). Relational co-occurrences as an index of oral proficiency in the Trinity Lancaster Learner Corpus. 14th American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) conference, Atlanta, USA.

Bibauw, S., Van den Noortgate, W., François, T., & Desmet, P. (2018). Insights from a multilevel meta-analysis on the effectiveness of dialogue-based CALL. XIXth International CALL Research Conference: CALL Your Data, Bruges, Belgium.

Hmida, F., Billami, M., François, T., & Gala, N. (2018). Assisted Lexical Simplification for French Native Children with Reading Difficulties. Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Automatic Text Adaptation (ATA), p. 21-28.

Billami, M., François, T., & Nuria Gala. (2018). ReSyf: a French lexicon with ranked synonyms. Proceedings of COLING 2018, 2570-2581.

Tack, A., François, T., Desmet, P., & Fairon, C. (2017). Introducing NT2Lex: A Machine-readable CEFR-graded Lexical Resource for Dutch as a Foreign Language. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 27 (CLIN 2017), KU Leuven, Belgium.

Lison, P., & Bibauw, S. (2017). Not all dialogues are created equal: Instance weighting for neural conversational models. Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, p. 384–394.

Pierson, A. (2017). Le langage médical, un sous-langage ? Étude syntaxique de l’expression de la causalité dans un corpus médical. Les Journées de Linguistique, Laval (Canada).

Paquot, M., & Naets, H. (2017). The role of the reference corpus in studies of EFL learners’ use of statistical collocations. ICAME38, Pragues, Czech Republic.

Bibauw, S., François, T., & Desmet, P. (2017). The effectiveness of dialogue-based CALL on L2 proficiency development: a meta-analysis. CALICO Conference 2017, Flagstaff, AZ.

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.

Panchenko, 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.

Bibauw, S., François, T., & Desmet, P. (2016). Instructional design and natural language processing in dialogue-based CALL. CALICO 2016, East Lansing, MI.

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.

Hansart, C., De Meyere, D., Watrin, P., Bittar, A., & Fairon, C. (2016). CENTAL at SemEval-2016 Task 12: a linguistically fed CRF model for medical and temporal information extraction. Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2016), p. 1286-1291.

Todirascu, A., François, T., Bernhard, D., Gala, N., & Ligozat, A.-L. (2016). Are Cohesive Features Relevant for Text Readability Evaluation? Proceedings of COLING 2016, p. 987-997.

Tack, A., François, T., Ligozat, A.-L., & Fairon, C. (2016). Modèles adaptatifs pour prédire automatiquement la compétence lexicale d’un apprenant de français langue étrangère. Actes de la 23ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2016), 221-234.

Paquot, M., & Naets, H. (2015). Using relational co-occurrences to trace phraseological development in a longitudinal corpus. EUROSLA25, Aix-en-Provence, France.

Bibauw, S., François, T., & Desmet, P. (2015). Conversational agents for language learning: state of the art and avenues for research on task-based agents. CALICO 2015, Boulder, CO.

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.

Paquot, M., & Naets, H. (2015). Adopting a relational model of co-occurrences to trace phraseological development. Learner Corpus Research 2015, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Brognaux, 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).

Brognaux, S., & Drugman, T. (2014). Phonetic variations: Impact of the communicative situation. In Nick Campbell, Dafydd Gibbon & Daniel Hirst (eds.) (ed.), Social and Linguistic Speech Prosody. Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Speech Prosody (p. p. 428-432).

Brouwers, L., Bernhard, D., Ligozat, A.-L., & François, T. (2014). Syntactic Sentence Simplification for French. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations, p. 47-56.

François, T. (2014). FLELex : a graded lexical resource for French foreign learners. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC′14). Published. International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Brognaux, S., Roekhaut, S., Drugman, T., & Beaufort, R. (2014). Train&Align: Un outil d’alignement phonétique automatique disponible en ligne. XXXe édition des Journées d’Études sur la Parole (JEP 2014) : actes de la conférence, p. 412-420.

Gala, N., François, T., Bernhard, D., & Fairon, C. (2014). Un modèle pour prédire la complexité lexicale et graduer les mots. Actes de la 21e Conférence sur le Traitement automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2014), p. 91-102.

Brognaux, S., Picart, B., & Drugman, T. (2013). A New Prosody Annotation Protocol for Live Sports Commentaries. In Bimbot F., Cerisara C., Fougeron C., et al (ed.), 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (pp. 1554-1558).

Panchenko, A., Kivimäki, I., Dessy, A., Verdegem, D., Francq, P., Fairon, C., Bersini, H., & Saerens, M. (2013). A Graph-Based Approach to Skill Extraction from Text. TextGraphs-8 Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing, Seattle, USA.

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.

Picart, B., Brognaux, S., & Drugman, T. (2013). HMM-based Speech Synthesis of Live Sports Commentaries: Integration of a Two-Layer Prosody Annotation. Proceedings of the 8th Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW8). Published. 8th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, Barcelone.

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).

Matthieu Constant, Anthony Sigogne, & Watrin, P. (2012). La reconnaissance des mots composés à l’épreuve de l’analyse syntaxique et vice-versa : évaluation de deux stratégies discriminantes. Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012, volume 2: TALN, p. 57-70.

Boubel, N. (2012). Construction automatique d’un lexique de modifieurs de polarité. In Jorge Mauricio Molina Mejia ; Didier Schwab ; Gilles Sérasset (eds) (ed.), Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012 (p. p. 123–136).

Panchenko, A., & et al. (2012). Извлечение семантических отношений из статей Википедии с помощью алгоритмов ближайших соседей. Анализ Изображений Сетей и Текстов (АИСТ) 2012, Yekateringurg, Russie.

Panchenko, A., & et al. (2012). Extraction of Semantic Relations between Concepts with KNN Algorithms on Wikipedia. Concept Discovery in Unstructured Data Workshop (CDUD) of International Conference On Formal Concept Analysis, Leuven, Belgique.

Vincze, N., & Bestgen, Y. (2012). Comparaison de l’usage d’un corpus et de WordNet pour l’extension de normes lexicales. Actes de JADT 2012 : 11es Journées internationales d’Analyse statistique des Données Textuelles, 965-976.

Martin, L., Roekhaut, S., & Beaufort, R. (2012). Variations prosodiques en synthèse par sélection d’unités: l’exemple des phrases interrogatives. TALN.

Brouwers, L., Bernhard, D., Ligozat, A.-L., & François, T. (2012). Simplification syntaxique de phrases pour le français. In Antoniadis, G. et Blanchon, H. et Sérasset, G. (ed.), Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012.

François, T., & Miltsakaki, E. (2012). Do NLP and machine learning improve traditional readability formulas? In Williams, S. and Siddharthan, A. and Nenkova, A. (ed.), Proceedings of the First Workshop on Predicting and improving text readability for target reader populations (PITR2012).

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.

Panchenko, A., & Morozova, O. (2012). A Semantic Similarity Measure Based on Lexico-Syntactic Patterns. Proceedings of KONVENS 2012, Vienne (Autriche).

Panchenko, A. (2012). A Study of Heterogeneous Similarity Measures for Semantic Relation Extraction. JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012, volume 3: RECITAL, Grenoble, France.

Brognaux, S., & Roekhaut, S. (2012). Train&Align: Outil d’alignement phonétique de corpus oraux. Journée Linguistique 2012 du Cercle Belge de Linguistique, Université de Liège.

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)

Constant, M., Sigogne, A., & Watrin, P. (2012). Discriminative Strategies to Integrate Multiword Expression Recognition and Parsing. The 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, p. 204-212.

Panchenko, A. (2011). Comparison of the Baseline Knowledge-, Corpus-, and Web-based Similarity Measures for Semantic Relations Extraction. GEMS 2011 Workshop on Geometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics, EMNLP 2011, Edinbourgh, Angleterre.

François, T., & Watrin, P. (2011). On the contribution of MWE-based features to a readability formula for French as a foreign language. Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2011), 441-447.

Boubel, N. (2011). Extraction automatique de modifieurs de valence affective dans un texte. Etude exploratoire appliquée au cas de l’adverbe. In De Wit, Astrid ; De Brabanter, Philippe ; Cougnon, Louise-Amélie ; Colleman, Timothy ; Dendale, Patrick ; Coussé, Evie (eds) (ed.), Travaux du Cercle Belge de Linguistique - Vol.6.

Weiser, S., Cougnon, L.-A., & Watrin, P. (2011). Temporal expression extraction in sms messages. Proceedings of RANLP 2011. Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition, 41-44.

Medori, J., & Fairon, C. (2010). Machine learning and feature selection for semi-automatic ICD-9 encoding. Second Louhi Workshop on Text and Data Mining of Health Documents.

Kevers, L., Mantrach, A., Fairon, C., Bersini, H., & Saerens, M. (2010). Classification hybride par motifs lexicaux étendus et classificateurs SVM. Journées Internationales d’Analyse statistiques des Données Textuelles (JADT 2010), Rome.

Kevers, L., & Medori, J. (2010). Symbolic classification methods for patient discharge summaries encoding into ICD. In Loftsson, H.; Rognvaldsson, E.; Helgadottir, S.; (ed.), Advances in Natural Language Processing. 7th International Conference on NLP, IceTAL 2010 (p. p. 197-208). Springer-verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14770-8_23

Beaufort, R., Roekhaut, S., Cougnon, L.-A., & Fairon, C. (2010). A hybrid rule/model-based finite-state framework for normalizing SMS messages. In Jan Hajic, Sandra Carberry, Stephen Clark (ed.), Proceedings of The 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010) (pp. 770-779).

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