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1. An “AI readability” Formula for French as a Foreign LanguageConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Thomas François, Cédrick Fairon2012 · 174 citations
2. Is Attention Explanation? An Introduction to the Debate ↗Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yetAdrien Bibal et al.2022 · 109 citations
3. Syntactic Sentence Simplification for French ↗Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations (PITR) · no summary yetLaetitia Brouwers et al.2014 · 81 citations
4. FLELex: a graded lexical resource for French foreign learners ↗Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14) · no summary yetThomas François et al.2014 · 64 citations
5. Alector: A Parallel Corpus of Simplified French Texts with Alignments of Misreadings by Poor and Dyslexic Readers ↗Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yetNúria Gala et al.2020 · 58 citations
6. EFLLex: A Graded Lexical Resource for Learners of English as a Foreign LanguageLanguage Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)Luise Dürlich, Thomas François2018 · 46 citations
7. SVALex: a CEFR-graded Lexical Resource for Swedish Foreign and Second Language Learners ↗Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16) · no summary yetThomas François et al.2016 · 45 citations
8. Are Cohesive Features Relevant for Text Readability Evaluation? ↗Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers · no summary yetAmalia Todirascu et al.2016 · 29 citations
9. FABRA: French Aggregator-Based Readability Assessment toolkit ↗Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yetRodrigo Wilkens et al.2022 · 27 citations
10. ReSyf: a French lexicon with ranked synonyms ↗Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yetMokhtar B. Billami, Thomas François, Núria Gala2018 · 27 citations
11. Combining Expert Knowledge with Frequency Information to Infer CEFR Levels for Words ↗Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) · no summary yetAlice Pintard, Thomas François2020 · 24 citations
12. NT2Lex: A CEFR-Graded Lexical Resource for Dutch as a Foreign Language Linked to Open Dutch WordNet ↗Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications · no summary yetAnaïs Tack et al.2018 · 24 citations
13. An analysis of a French as a Foreign Language Corpus for Readability Assessment ↗Proceedings of the third workshop on NLP for computer-assisted language learning · no summary yetFrançois, Thomas2014 · 23 citations
14. On the Contribution of MWE-based Features to a Readability Formula for French as a Foreign Language ↗Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2011 · no summary yetThomas François, Patrick Watrin2011 · 23 citations
15. Evaluating Lexical Simplification and Vocabulary Knowledge for Learners of French: Possibilities of Using the FLELex Resource ↗Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16) · no summary yetAnaïs Tack et al.2016 · 22 citations
16. Linguistic Corpus Annotation for Automatic Text Simplification Evaluation ↗Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetRémi Cardon et al.2022 · 16 citations
17. FrenLyS: A Tool for the Automatic Simplification of French General Language Texts ↗Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021) · no summary yetEva Rolin et al.2021 · 15 citations
18. Extending a Text-to-Pictograph System to French and to Arasaac ↗Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021) · no summary yetMagali Norré et al.2021 · 13 citations
19. Assisted Lexical Simplification for French Native Children with Reading Difficulties ↗Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Automatic Text Adaptation (ATA) · no summary yetFiras Hmida et al.2018 · 12 citations
20. CENTAL at TSAR-2022 Shared Task: How Does Context Impact BERT-Generated Substitutions for Lexical Simplification? ↗Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022) · no summary yetRodrigo Wilkens et al.2022 · 11 citations
21. TCFLE-8: a Corpus of Learner Written Productions for French as a Foreign Language and its Application to Automated Essay Scoring ↗Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetRodrigo Wilkens et al.2023 · 9 citations
22. HECTOR: A Hybrid TExt SimplifiCation TOol for Raw Texts in French ↗Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yetAmalia Todirascu et al.2022 · 9 citations
23. Les apports du TAL à la lisibilité du français langue étrangère [Contributions of NLP to the readability of French as a foreign language] ↗no summary yetThomas François, Cédrick Fairon2013 · 9 citations
24. Modèles statistiques pour l'estimation automatique de la difficulté de textes de FLE ↗Actes de la 16ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. REncontres jeunes Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues · no summary yetFrançois, Thomas2009 · 7 citations
25. Text Simplification to Help Individuals with Low Vision Read More Fluently ↗Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) · no summary yetLauren Sauvan et al.2020 · 6 citations
26. 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) ↗Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016. volume 2 : TALN (Articles longs) · no summary yetThomas Francois et al.2016 · 6 citations
27. 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 (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yetVincent Segonne et al.2024 · 4 citations
28. AMesure: a readability formula for administrative texts (AMESURE: une plateforme de lisibilité pour les textes administratifs) [in French] ↗Proceedings of TALN 2014 (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yetThomas François et al.2014 · 4 citations
29. MWE for Essay Scoring English as a Foreign LanguageJoint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LRECRodrigo Wilkens, Daiane Seibert, Xiaoou Wang, et al.2022 · 3 citations
30. 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) ↗Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016. volume 2 : TALN (Articles longs) · no summary yetAnaïs Tack et al.2016 · 3 citations
31. Contribution of Move Structure to Automatic Genre Identification: An Annotated Corpus of French Tourism Websites ↗Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yetRémi Cardon et al.2024 · 2 citations
32. Modéliser la facilité d'écoute en FLE : vaut-il mieux lire la transcription ou écouter le signal vocal ? ↗Actes de la 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 1 : articles longs et prises de position · no summary yetMinami Ozawa et al.2024 · 1 citation
33. Jargon : Une suite de modèles de langues et de référentiels d'évaluation pour les domaines spécialisés du français ↗Actes de la 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 2 : traductions d'articles publiès · no summary yetVincent Segonne et al.2024 · 1 citation
34. PADDLe: a Platform to Identify Complex Words for Learners of French as a Foreign Language (FFL) ↗Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yetCamille Pirali, Thomas François, Núria Gala2022 · 1 citation
35. PolylexFLE : une base de données d'expressions polylexicales pour le FLE (PolylexFLE : a database of multiword expressions for French L2 language learning) ↗Actes de la Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN) PFIA 2019. Volume I : Articles longs · no summary yetAmalia Todirascu, Marion Cargill, Thomas Francois2019 · 1 citation
36. 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) ↗Actes de la 18e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles courts · no summary yetThomas François, Patrick Watrin2011 · 1 citation
37. Automated Essay Scoring and Language Certification: Assessing Generalizability, Agreement and Validity for FrenchTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)Rodrigo Wilkens, Rémi Cardon, Vincent Folny, et al.2026
38. Automatic Extraction of Textual and Phonemic Complexity for French Cued SpeechJoint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LRECMagali Norré, Brigitte Bigi, Núria Gala, et al.2026
39. Book Complexity Level Assignment in French and Portuguese ↗Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 · no summary yetJorge Baptista et al.2026
40. A Learner-Oriented Annotated Resource of French Multiword Expressions for Text Adaptation in Foreign Language Reading ↗Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 · no summary yetAnna Kalinina et al.2026
41. Modelling French readability for adults with low literacy (Modélisation de la lisibilité en français pour les personnes en situation d'illettrisme)JEP-TALN-RECITAL (the French-speaking conferences on speech and natural language processing)Wafa Aissa, Thibault Bañeras-Roux, Elodie Vanzeveren, et al.2025
42. Apport de la structure de tours à l'identification automatique de genre textuel: un corpus annoté de sites web de tourisme en français ↗Actes de la 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 2 : traductions d'articles publiès · no summary yetRemi Cardon et al.2024
43. L'impact de genre sur la prédiction de la lisibilité du texte en FLE ↗Actes de la 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 1 : articles longs et prises de position · no summary yetLingyun Gao, Rodrigo Wilkens, Thomas François2024
44. Paying attention to the words: explaining readability prediction for French as a foreign language ↗Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) @ LREC-COLING 2024 · no summary yetRodrigo Wilkens, Patrick Watrin, Thomas François2024
45. Annotation Linguistique pour l'Évaluation de la Simplification Automatique de Textes ↗Actes de CORIA-TALN 2023. Actes de la 30e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN), volume 4 : articles déjà soumis ou acceptés en conférence internationale · no summary yetRémi Cardon et al.2023
46. The Interface Between Readability and Automatic Text Simplification ↗Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Automatic Text Adaptation (ATA) · no summary yetFrançois, Thomas2018
47. 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) ↗Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016. volume 2 : TALN (Posters) · no summary yetAdeline Müller et al.2016

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