Combining a Statistical Language Model with Logistic Regression to Predict the Lexical and Syntactic Difficulty of Texts for FFL. - Thomas François (EACL (Student Research Workshop), 2009)

Modèles statistiques pour l'estimation automatique de la difficulté de textes de FLE. - Thomas François (RECITAL, 2009)

An N-gram Frequency Database Reference to Handle MWE Extraction in NLP Applications. - Patrick Watrin; Thomas François (MWE@ACL, 2011)

On the Contribution of MWE-based Features to a Readability Formula for French as a Foreign Language. - Thomas François; Patrick Watrin (RANLP, 2011)

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). - Thomas François; Patrick Watrin (TALN (Articles courts), 2011)

Do NLP and machine learning improve traditional readability formulas? - Thomas François; Eleni Miltsakaki (PITR@NAACL-HLT, 2012)

An "AI readability" Formula for French as a Foreign Language. - Thomas François; Cédrick Fairon (EMNLP-CoNLL, 2012)

Simplification syntaxique de phrases pour le français (Syntactic Simplification for French Sentences) [in French]. - Laetitia Brouwers; Delphine Bernhard; Anne-Laure Ligozat; Thomas François (JEP-TALN-RECITAL, 2012)

Automatic extraction of contextual valence shifters. - Noémi Boubel; Thomas François; Hubert Naets (RANLP, 2013)

Les apports du TAL à la lisibilité du français langue étrangère. - Thomas François; Cédrick Fairon (Trait. Autom. des Langues, 2013)

Syntactic Sentence Simplification for French. - Laetitia Brouwers; Delphine Bernhard; Anne-Laure Ligozat; Thomas François (PITR@EACL, 2014)

FLELex: a graded lexical resource for French foreign learners. - Thomas François; Núria Gala; Patrick Watrin; Cédrick Fairon (LREC, 2014)

Multiple Choice Question Corpus Analysis for Distractor Characterization. - Van-Minh Pho; Thibault André; Anne-Laure Ligozat; Brigitte Grau; Gabriel Illouz; Thomas François (LREC, 2014)

AMesure: a readability formula for administrative texts (AMESURE: une plateforme de lisibilité pour les textes administratifs) [in French]. - Thomas François; Laetitia Brouwers; Hubert Naets; Cédrick Fairon (TALN (2), 2014)

A model to predict lexical complexity and to grade words (Un modèle pour prédire la complexité lexicale et graduer les mots) [in French]. - Núria Gala; Thomas François; Delphine Bernhard; Cédrick Fairon (TALN (1), 2014)

Are Cohesive Features Relevant for Text Readability Evaluation? - Amalia Todirascu; Thomas François; Delphine Bernhard; Núria Gala; Anne-Laure Ligozat (COLING, 2016)

Combining Manual and Automatic Prosodic Annotation for Expressive Speech Synthesis. - Sandrine Brognaux; Thomas François; Marco Saerens (LREC, 2016)

SVALex: a CEFR-graded Lexical Resource for Swedish Foreign and Second Language Learners. - Thomas François; Elena Volodina; Ildikó Pilán; Anaïs Tack (LREC, 2016)

Evaluating Lexical Simplification and Vocabulary Knowledge for Learners of French: Possibilities of Using the FLELex Resource. - Anaïs Tack; Thomas François; Anne-Laure Ligozat; Cédrick Fairon (LREC, 2016)

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). - Thomas François; Mokhtar Boumedyen Billami; Núria Gala; Delphine Bernhard (JEP-TALN-RECITAL (2), 2016)

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). - Adeline Müller; Thomas François; Sophie Roekhaut; Cédrick Fairon (JEP-TALN-RECITAL (Posters), 2016)

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). - Anaïs Tack; Thomas François; Anne-Laure Ligozat; Cédrick Fairon (JEP-TALN-RECITAL (2), 2016)

Human and Automated CEFR-based Grading of Short Answers. - Anaïs Tack; Thomas François; Sophie Roekhaut; Cédrick Fairon (BEA@EMNLP, 2017)

NT2Lex: A CEFR-Graded Lexical Resource for Dutch as a Foreign Language Linked to Open Dutch WordNet. - Anaïs Tack; Thomas François; Piet Desmet; Cédrick Fairon (BEA@NAACL-HLT, 2018)

ReSyf: a French lexicon with ranked synonyms. - Mokhtar Boumedyen Billami; Thomas François; Núria Gala (COLING, 2018)

EFLLex: A Graded Lexical Resource for Learners of English as a Foreign Language. - Luise Dürlich; Thomas François (LREC, 2018)

PolylexFLE : une base de données d'expressions polylexicales pour le FLE (PolylexFLE : a database of multiword expressions for French L2 language learning). - Amalia Todirascu; Marion Cargill; Thomas François (PFIA (Articles longs), 2019)

Eye-tracking for Sense of Immersion and Linguistic Complexity in the Skyrim Game: Issues and Perspectives. - Alessandro Cierro; Thibault Philippette; Thomas François; Sebastien Nahon; Patrick Watrin (ETRA Short Papers, 2020)

AMesure: A Web Platform to Assist the Clear Writing of Administrative Texts. - Thomas François; Adeline Müller; Eva Rolin; Magali Norré (AACL/IJCNLP (System Demonstrations), 2020)

Alector: A Parallel Corpus of Simplified French Texts with Alignments of Misreadings by Poor and Dyslexic Readers. - Núria Gala; Anaïs Tack; Ludivine Javourey-Drevet; Thomas François; Johannes C. Ziegler (LREC, 2020)

Combining Expert Knowledge with Frequency Information to Infer CEFR Levels for Words. - Alice Pintard; Thomas François (READI@LREC, 2020)

Text Simplification to Help Individuals with Low Vision Read More Fluently. - Lauren Sauvan; Natacha Stolowy; Carlos Aguilar; Thomas François; Núria Gala; Frédéric Matonti; Eric Castet; Aurélie Calabrèse (READI@LREC, 2020)

Extending a Text-to-Pictograph System to French and to Arasaac. - Magali Norré; Vincent Vandeghinste; Pierrette Bouillon; Thomas François (RANLP, 2021)

FrenLyS: A Tool for the Automatic Simplification of French General Language Texts. - Eva Rolin; Quentin Langlois; Patrick Watrin; Thomas François (RANLP, 2021)

Is Attention Explanation? An Introduction to the Debate. - Adrien Bibal; Rémi Cardon; David Alfter; Rodrigo Wilkens; Xiaoou Wang; Thomas François; Patrick Watrin (ACL (1), 2022)

Linguistic Corpus Annotation for Automatic Text Simplification Evaluation. - Rémi Cardon; Adrien Bibal; Rodrigo Wilkens; David Alfter; Magali Norré; Adeline Müller; Patrick Watrin; Thomas François (EMNLP, 2022)

HECTOR: A Hybrid TExt SimplifiCation TOol for Raw Texts in French. - Amalia Todirascu; Rodrigo Wilkens; Eva Rolin; Thomas François; Delphine Bernhard; Núria Gala (LREC, 2022)

FABRA: French Aggregator-Based Readability Assessment toolkit. - Rodrigo Wilkens; David Alfter; Xiaoou Wang; Alice Pintard; Anaïs Tack; Kevin P. Yancey; Thomas François (LREC, 2022)

Investigating the Medical Coverage of a Translation System into Pictographs for Patients with an Intellectual Disability. - Magali Norré; Vincent Vandeghinste; Thomas François; Pierrette Bouillon (SLPAT@ACL, 2022)

L'Attention est-elle de l'Explication ? Une Introduction au Débat (Is Attention Explanation ? An Introduction to the Debate ). - Adrien Bibal; Rémi Cardon; David Alfter; Rodrigo Wilkens; Xiaoou Wang; Thomas François; Patrick Watrin (TALN-RECITAL, 2022)

Drug Name Recognition in the Cryptomarket Forum of Silk Road 2. - Romane Werner; Thomas François; Sonja Bitzer (CLiC-it, 2023)

TCFLE-8: a Corpus of Learner Written Productions for French as a Foreign Language and its Application to Automated Essay Scoring. - Rodrigo Wilkens; Alice Pintard; David Alfter; Vincent Folny; Thomas François (EMNLP, 2023)

Word Sense Disambiguation for Automatic Translation of Medical Dialogues into Pictographs. - Magali Norré; Rémi Cardon; Vincent Vandeghinste; Thomas François (RANLP, 2023)

Annotation Linguistique pour l'Évaluation de la Simplification Automatique de Textes. - Rémi Cardon; Adrien Bibal; Rodrigo Wilkens; David Alfter; Magali Norré; Adeline Müller; Patrick Watrin; Thomas François (CORIA-TALN (4), 2023)

The BEA 2024 Shared Task on the Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline. - 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; et al. (BEA, 2024)

Contribution of Move Structure to Automatic Genre Identification: An Annotated Corpus of French Tourism Websites. - Rémi Cardon; Trang Tran Hanh Pham; Julien Zakhia Doueihi; Thomas François (LREC/COLING, 2024)

Jargon: A Suite of Language Models and Evaluation Tasks for French Specialized Domains. - Vincent Segonne; Aidan Mannion; Laura Cristina Alonzo Canul; Alexandre Daniel Audibert; Xingyu Liu; Cécile Macaire; Adrien Pupier; Yongxin Zhou 004; Mathilde Aguiar; Felix Herron; Magali Norré; Massih-Reza Amini; et al. (LREC/COLING, 2024)

Exploring hybrid approaches to readability: experiments on the complementarity between linguistic features and transformers. - Rodrigo Wilkens; Patrick Watrin; Rémi Cardon; Alice Pintard; Isabelle Gribomont; Thomas François (EACL (Findings), 2024)

Apport de la structure de tours à l'identification automatique de genre textuel: un corpus annoté de sites web de tourisme en français. - Rémi Cardon; Trang Tran Hanh Pham; Julien Zakhia Doueihi; Thomas François (TALN (2), 2024)

L'impact de genre sur la prédiction de la lisibilité du texte en FLE. - Lingyun Gao; Rodrigo Wilkens; Thomas François (TALN (1), 2024)

LLM-Generated Contexts to Practice Specialised Vocabulary: Corpus Presentation and Comparison. - Iglika Nikolova-Stoupak; Serge Bibauw; Amandine Dumont; François Stas; Patrick Watrin; Thomas François (TALN (1), 2024)

Modéliser la facilité d'écoute en FLE : vaut-il mieux lire la transcription ou écouter le signal vocal ? - Minami Ozawa; Rodrigo Wilkens; Kaori Sugiyama; Thomas François (TALN (1), 2024)

Jargon : Une suite de modèles de langues et de référentiels d'évaluation pour les domaines spécialisés du français. - Vincent Segonne; Aidan Mannion; Laura Cristina Alonzo Canul; Alexandre Audibert; Xingyu Liu; Cécile Macaire; Adrien Pupier; Yongxin Zhou 004; Mathilde Aguiar; Felix Herron; Magali Norré; Massih-Reza Amini; et al. (TALN (2), 2024)

TCFLE-8 : un corpus de productions écrites d'apprenants de français langue étrangère et son application à la correction automatisée de textes. - Rodrigo Wilkens; Alice Pintard; David Alfter; Vincent Folny; Thomas François (TALN (1), 2024)

Exploration d'approches hybrides pour la lisibilité : expériences sur la complémentarité entre les traits linguistiques et les transformers. - Rodrigo Wilkens; Patrick Watrin; Rémi Cardon; Alice Pintard; Isabelle Gribomont; Thomas François (TALN (2), 2024)

Jargon: A Suite of Language Models and Evaluation Tasks for French Specialized Domains: Data. - Vincent Segonne; Aidan Mannion; Laura Cristina Alonzo Canul; Alexandre Audibert; Xingyu Liu; Cécile Macaire; Adrien Pupier; Yongxin Zhou 004; Mathilde Aguiar; Felix Herron; Magali Norré; Massih-Reza Amini; et al. (Zenodo, 2024)

UniversalCEFR: Enabling Open Multilingual Research on Language Proficiency Assessment. - 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 001; et al. (CoRR, 2025)