Thomas François
22 papers · 2009–2026 · 7 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences
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text classification
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natural language processing
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lexical simplification
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readability assessment
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french language
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multilingual nlp
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text complexity
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corpus annotation
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language learning
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large language model
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attention mechanism
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text readability
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lexical resource
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bert model
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named entity recognition
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Papers
A Computational Forensic Linguistic Analysis of Narrative and Question-Answer Structures in Italian Police Interrogation Transcripts
EACL 2026
The iRead4Skills Intelligent Complexity Analyzer
EMNLP 2025
Assessing French Readability for Adults with Low Literacy: A Global and Local Perspective
EMNLP 2025
UniversalCEFR: Enabling Open Multilingual Research on Language Proficiency Assessment
EMNLP 2025
Paying attention to the words: explaining readability prediction for French as a foreign language
COLING 2024
Exploring hybrid approaches to readability: experiments on the complementarity between linguistic features and transformers
EACL 2024
Contribution of Move Structure to Automatic Genre Identification: An Annotated Corpus of French Tourism Websites
COLING 2024
Jargon: A Suite of Language Models and Evaluation Tasks for French Specialized Domains
COLING 2024
An Extensible Massively Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline Dataset using the MultiLS Framework
COLING 2024
The BEA 2024 Shared Task on the Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline
NAACL 2024
TCFLE-8: a Corpus of Learner Written Productions for French as a Foreign Language and its Application to Automated Essay Scoring
EMNLP 2023
Is Attention Explanation? An Introduction to the Debate
ACL 2022
Linguistic Corpus Annotation for Automatic Text Simplification Evaluation
EMNLP 2022
CENTAL at TSAR-2022 Shared Task: How Does Context Impact BERT-Generated Substitutions for Lexical Simplification?
EMNLP 2022
Investigating the Medical Coverage of a Translation System into Pictographs for Patients with an Intellectual Disability
ACL 2022
AMesure: A Web Platform to Assist the Clear Writing of Administrative Texts
AACL 2020
ReSyf: a French lexicon with ranked synonyms
COLING 2018
NT2Lex: A CEFR-Graded Lexical Resource for Dutch as a Foreign Language Linked to Open Dutch WordNet
NAACL 2018
Are Cohesive Features Relevant for Text Readability Evaluation?
COLING 2016
An “AI readability” Formula for French as a Foreign Language
CONLL 2012
An “AI readability” Formula for French as a Foreign Language
EMNLP 2012
Combining a Statistical Language Model with Logistic Regression to Predict the Lexical and Syntactic Difficulty of Texts for FFL
EACL 2009