Thomas François

61 papers A* 4A 1B 11Misc 5Journal 2Unranked 37
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 — conf
A Computational Forensic Linguistic Analysis of Narrative and Question-Answer Structures in Italian Police Interrogation Transcripts.
EACL (Student Research Workshop)
Romane Werner, Thomas François, Sonja Bitzer
2025 A* conf
Assessing French Readability for Adults with Low Literacy: A Global and Local Perspective.
EMNLP
Wafa Aissa, Thibault Bañeras-Roux, Elodie Vanzeveren, Lingyun Gao, Rodrigo Wilkens, Thomas François
2025 — conf
The iRead4Skills Intelligent Complexity Analyzer.
EMNLP (System Demonstrations)
Wafa Aissa, Raquel Amaro, David Antunes, Thibault Bañeras-Roux, Jorge Baptista, Alejandro Catalá, Luís Correia, Thomas François, Marcos Garcia, Mario Izquierdo-Álvarez, Nuno J. Mamede, Vasco Martins, Miguel Neves, Eugénio Ribeiro, Sandra Rodríguez Rey, Elodie Vanzeveren
2025 A* conf
UniversalCEFR: Enabling Open Multilingual Research on Language Proficiency Assessment.
EMNLP
Joseph Marvin Imperial, Abdullah Barayan, Regina Stodden, Rodrigo Wilkens, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Lingyun Gao, Melissa Torgbi, Dawn Knight, Gail Forey, Reka R. Jablonkai, Ekaterina Kochmar, Robert Reynolds, Eugénio Ribeiro, Horacio Saggion, Elena Volodina, Sowmya Vajjala, Thomas François, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Harish Tayyar Madabushi
2025 J jnl
UniversalCEFR: Enabling Open Multilingual Research on Language Proficiency Assessment.
CoRR
Joseph Marvin Imperial, Abdullah Barayan, Regina Stodden, Rodrigo Wilkens, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Lingyun Gao, Melissa Torgbi, Dawn Knight, Gail Forey, Reka R. Jablonkai, Ekaterina Kochmar, Robert Reynolds, Eugénio Ribeiro, Horacio Saggion, Elena Volodina, Sowmya Vajjala, Thomas François, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Harish Tayyar Madabushi
2024 — conf
Apport de la structure de tours à l'identification automatique de genre textuel: un corpus annoté de sites web de tourisme en français.
TALN (2)
Rémi Cardon, Trang Tran Hanh Pham, Julien Zakhia Doueihi, Thomas François
2024 — conf
Contribution of Move Structure to Automatic Genre Identification: An Annotated Corpus of French Tourism Websites.
LREC/COLING
Rémi Cardon, Trang Tran Hanh Pham, Julien Zakhia Doueihi, Thomas François
2024 — conf
Exploration d'approches hybrides pour la lisibilité : expériences sur la complémentarité entre les traits linguistiques et les transformers.
TALN (2)
Rodrigo Wilkens, Patrick Watrin, Rémi Cardon, Alice Pintard, Isabelle Gribomont, Thomas François
2024 — conf
Exploring hybrid approaches to readability: experiments on the complementarity between linguistic features and transformers.
EACL (Findings)
Rodrigo Wilkens, Patrick Watrin, Rémi Cardon, Alice Pintard, Isabelle Gribomont, Thomas François
2024 — conf
Jargon : Une suite de modèles de langues et de référentiels d'évaluation pour les domaines spécialisés du français.
TALN (2)
Vincent Segonne, Aidan Mannion, Laura Cristina Alonzo Canul, Alexandre Audibert, Xingyu Liu, Cécile Macaire, Adrien Pupier, Yongxin Zhou, Mathilde Aguiar, Felix Herron, Magali Norré, Massih-Reza Amini, Pierrette Bouillon, Iris Eshkol-Taravella, Emmanuelle Esparança-Rodier, Thomas François, Lorraine Goeuriot, Jérôme Goulian, Mathieu Lafourcade, Benjamin Lecouteux, François Portet, Fabien Ringeval, Vincent Vandeghinste, Maximin Coavoux, Marco Dinarelli, Didier Schwab
2024 — conf
Jargon: A Suite of Language Models and Evaluation Tasks for French Specialized Domains.
LREC/COLING
Vincent Segonne, Aidan Mannion, Laura Cristina Alonzo Canul, Alexandre Daniel Audibert, Xingyu Liu, Cécile Macaire, Adrien Pupier, Yongxin Zhou, Mathilde Aguiar, Felix Herron, Magali Norré, Massih-Reza Amini, Pierrette Bouillon, Iris Eshkol-Taravella, Emmanuelle Esperança-Rodier, Thomas François, Lorraine Goeuriot, Jérôme Goulian, Mathieu Lafourcade, Benjamin Lecouteux, François Portet, Fabien Ringeval, Vincent Vandeghinste, Maximin Coavoux, Marco Dinarelli, Didier Schwab
2024 — conf
L'impact de genre sur la prédiction de la lisibilité du texte en FLE.
TALN (1)
Lingyun Gao, Rodrigo Wilkens, Thomas François
2024 — conf
LLM-Generated Contexts to Practice Specialised Vocabulary: Corpus Presentation and Comparison.
TALN (1)
Iglika Nikolova-Stoupak, Serge Bibauw, Amandine Dumont, François Stas, Patrick Watrin, Thomas François
2024 — conf
Modéliser la facilité d'écoute en FLE : vaut-il mieux lire la transcription ou écouter le signal vocal ?
TALN (1)
Minami Ozawa, Rodrigo Wilkens, Kaori Sugiyama, Thomas François
2024 — conf
TCFLE-8 : un corpus de productions écrites d'apprenants de français langue étrangère et son application à la correction automatisée de textes.
TALN (1)
Rodrigo Wilkens, Alice Pintard, David Alfter, Vincent Folny, Thomas François
2024 — conf
The BEA 2024 Shared Task on the Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline.
BEA
Matthew Shardlow, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Riza Batista-Navarro, Stefan Bott, Saúl Calderón Ramírez, Rémi Cardon, Thomas François, Akio Hayakawa, Andrea Horbach, Anna Hülsing, Yusuke Ide, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Adam Nohejl, Kai North, Laura Occhipinti, Nelson Perez-Rojas, Nishat Raihan, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Martin Solis-Salazar, Sanja Stajner, Marcos Zampieri, Horacio Saggion
2023 — conf
Annotation Linguistique pour l'Évaluation de la Simplification Automatique de Textes.
CORIA-TALN (4)
Rémi Cardon, Adrien Bibal, Rodrigo Wilkens, David Alfter, Magali Norré, Adeline Müller, Patrick Watrin, Thomas François
2023 — conf
Drug Name Recognition in the Cryptomarket Forum of Silk Road 2.
CLiC-it
Romane Werner, Thomas François, Sonja Bitzer
2023 A* conf
TCFLE-8: a Corpus of Learner Written Productions for French as a Foreign Language and its Application to Automated Essay Scoring.
EMNLP
Rodrigo Wilkens, Alice Pintard, David Alfter, Vincent Folny, Thomas François
2023 Misc conf
Word Sense Disambiguation for Automatic Translation of Medical Dialogues into Pictographs.
RANLP
Magali Norré, Rémi Cardon, Vincent Vandeghinste, Thomas François
2022 B conf
FABRA: French Aggregator-Based Readability Assessment toolkit.
LREC
Rodrigo Wilkens, David Alfter, Xiaoou Wang, Alice Pintard, Anaïs Tack, Kevin P. Yancey, Thomas François
2022 B conf
HECTOR: A Hybrid TExt SimplifiCation TOol for Raw Texts in French.
LREC
Amalia Todirascu, Rodrigo Wilkens, Eva Rolin, Thomas François, Delphine Bernhard, Núria Gala
2022 — conf
Investigating the Medical Coverage of a Translation System into Pictographs for Patients with an Intellectual Disability.
SLPAT@ACL
Magali Norré, Vincent Vandeghinste, Thomas François, Pierrette Bouillon
2022 — conf
Is Attention Explanation? An Introduction to the Debate.
ACL (1)
Adrien Bibal, Rémi Cardon, David Alfter, Rodrigo Wilkens, Xiaoou Wang, Thomas François, Patrick Watrin
2022 — conf
L'Attention est-elle de l'Explication ? Une Introduction au Débat (Is Attention Explanation ? An Introduction to the Debate ).
TALN-RECITAL
Adrien Bibal, Rémi Cardon, David Alfter, Rodrigo Wilkens, Xiaoou Wang, Thomas François, Patrick Watrin
2022 A* conf
Linguistic Corpus Annotation for Automatic Text Simplification Evaluation.
EMNLP
Rémi Cardon, Adrien Bibal, Rodrigo Wilkens, David Alfter, Magali Norré, Adeline Müller, Patrick Watrin, Thomas François
2021 Misc conf
Extending a Text-to-Pictograph System to French and to Arasaac.
RANLP
Magali Norré, Vincent Vandeghinste, Pierrette Bouillon, Thomas François
2021 Misc conf
FrenLyS: A Tool for the Automatic Simplification of French General Language Texts.
RANLP
Eva Rolin, Quentin Langlois, Patrick Watrin, Thomas François
2020 — conf
AMesure: A Web Platform to Assist the Clear Writing of Administrative Texts.
AACL/IJCNLP (System Demonstrations)
Thomas François, Adeline Müller, Eva Rolin, Magali Norré
2020 B conf
Alector: A Parallel Corpus of Simplified French Texts with Alignments of Misreadings by Poor and Dyslexic Readers.
LREC
Núria Gala, Anaïs Tack, Ludivine Javourey-Drevet, Thomas François, Johannes C. Ziegler
2020 — conf
Combining Expert Knowledge with Frequency Information to Infer CEFR Levels for Words.
READI@LREC
Alice Pintard, Thomas François
2020 — conf
Eye-tracking for Sense of Immersion and Linguistic Complexity in the Skyrim Game: Issues and Perspectives.
ETRA Short Papers
Alessandro Cierro, Thibault Philippette, Thomas François, Sebastien Nahon, Patrick Watrin
2020 — conf
Text Simplification to Help Individuals with Low Vision Read More Fluently.
READI@LREC
Lauren Sauvan, Natacha Stolowy, Carlos Aguilar, Thomas François, Núria Gala, Frédéric Matonti, Eric Castet, Aurélie Calabrèse
2019 — conf
PolylexFLE : une base de données d'expressions polylexicales pour le FLE (PolylexFLE : a database of multiword expressions for French L2 language learning).
PFIA (Articles longs)
Amalia Todirascu, Marion Cargill, Thomas François
2018 B conf
EFLLex: A Graded Lexical Resource for Learners of English as a Foreign Language.
LREC
Luise Dürlich, Thomas François
2018 — conf
NT2Lex: A CEFR-Graded Lexical Resource for Dutch as a Foreign Language Linked to Open Dutch WordNet.
BEA@NAACL-HLT
Anaïs Tack, Thomas François, Piet Desmet, Cédrick Fairon
2018 B conf
ReSyf: a French lexicon with ranked synonyms.
COLING
Mokhtar Boumedyen Billami, Thomas François, Núria Gala
2017 — conf
Human and Automated CEFR-based Grading of Short Answers.
BEA@EMNLP
Anaïs Tack, Thomas François, Sophie Roekhaut, Cédrick Fairon
2016 B conf
Are Cohesive Features Relevant for Text Readability Evaluation?
COLING
Amalia Todirascu, Thomas François, Delphine Bernhard, Núria Gala, Anne-Laure Ligozat
2016 — conf
Bleu, contusion, ecchymose : tri automatique de synonymes en fonction de leur difficulté de lecture et compréhension (Automatic ranking of synonyms according to their reading and comprehension difficulty).
JEP-TALN-RECITAL (2)
Thomas François, Mokhtar Boumedyen Billami, Núria Gala, Delphine Bernhard
2016 — conf
Classification automatique de dictées selon leur niveau de difficulté de compréhension et orthographique (Automatic classification of dictations according to their complexity for comprehension and writing production).
JEP-TALN-RECITAL (Posters)
Adeline Müller, Thomas François, Sophie Roekhaut, Cédrick Fairon
2016 B conf
Combining Manual and Automatic Prosodic Annotation for Expressive Speech Synthesis.
LREC
Sandrine Brognaux, Thomas François, Marco Saerens
2016 B conf
Evaluating Lexical Simplification and Vocabulary Knowledge for Learners of French: Possibilities of Using the FLELex Resource.
LREC
Anaïs Tack, Thomas François, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Cédrick Fairon
2016 — conf
Modèles adaptatifs pour prédire automatiquement la compétence lexicale d'un apprenant de français langue étrangère (Adaptive models for automatically predicting the lexical competence of French as a foreign language learners).
JEP-TALN-RECITAL (2)
Anaïs Tack, Thomas François, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Cédrick Fairon
2016 — ed.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity, CL4LC@COLING 2016, Osaka, Japan, December 11, 2016
CL4LC@COLING 2016
Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Giulia Venturi, Thomas François, Philippe Blache
2016 B conf
SVALex: a CEFR-graded Lexical Resource for Swedish Foreign and Second Language Learners.
LREC
Thomas François, Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Anaïs Tack
2014 — conf
A model to predict lexical complexity and to grade words (Un modèle pour prédire la complexité lexicale et graduer les mots) [in French].
TALN (1)
Núria Gala, Thomas François, Delphine Bernhard, Cédrick Fairon
2014 — conf
AMesure: a readability formula for administrative texts (AMESURE: une plateforme de lisibilité pour les textes administratifs) [in French].
TALN (2)
Thomas François, Laetitia Brouwers, Hubert Naets, Cédrick Fairon
2014 B conf
FLELex: a graded lexical resource for French foreign learners.
LREC
Thomas François, Núria Gala, Patrick Watrin, Cédrick Fairon
2014 B conf
Multiple Choice Question Corpus Analysis for Distractor Characterization.
LREC
Van-Minh Pho, Thibault André, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Brigitte Grau, Gabriel Illouz, Thomas François
2014 — conf
Syntactic Sentence Simplification for French.
PITR@EACL
Laetitia Brouwers, Delphine Bernhard, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Thomas François
2013 Misc conf
Automatic extraction of contextual valence shifters.
RANLP
Noémi Boubel, Thomas François, Hubert Naets
2013 J jnl
Les apports du TAL à la lisibilité du français langue étrangère.
Trait. Autom. des Langues
Thomas François, Cédrick Fairon
2012 — conf
An "AI readability" Formula for French as a Foreign Language.
EMNLP-CoNLL
Thomas François, Cédrick Fairon
2012 — conf
Do NLP and machine learning improve traditional readability formulas?
PITR@NAACL-HLT
Thomas François, Eleni Miltsakaki
2012 — conf
Simplification syntaxique de phrases pour le français (Syntactic Simplification for French Sentences) [in French].
JEP-TALN-RECITAL
Laetitia Brouwers, Delphine Bernhard, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Thomas François
2011 — conf
An N-gram Frequency Database Reference to Handle MWE Extraction in NLP Applications.
MWE@ACL
Patrick Watrin, Thomas François
2011 Misc conf
On the Contribution of MWE-based Features to a Readability Formula for French as a Foreign Language.
RANLP
Thomas François, Patrick Watrin
2011 — conf
Quel apport des unités polylexicales dans une formule de lisibilité pour le français langue étrangère (What is the contribution of multi-word expressions in a readability formula for the French as a foreign language).
TALN (Articles courts)
Thomas François, Patrick Watrin
2009 A conf
Combining a Statistical Language Model with Logistic Regression to Predict the Lexical and Syntactic Difficulty of Texts for FFL.
EACL (Student Research Workshop)
Thomas François
2009 — conf
Modèles statistiques pour l'estimation automatique de la difficulté de textes de FLE.
RECITAL
Thomas François