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# Cédrick Fairon

Cédrick Fairon has 2 papers in our library, in 2012–2016, most of them on [French](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/french/); often with [Alexander Panchenko](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-panchenko/), [Chris Biemann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-biemann/), [Simone Paolo Ponzetto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-paolo-ponzetto/).

2 papers in our library · 2012–2016

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5014864906) · [**h-index 18**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5014864906) · [180 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5014864906) · [1,245 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5014864906&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cedrick-fairon/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 160 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cedrick-fairon/cited-by/) · [15 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6058](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/61/#star-6058)

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=C%C3%A9drick+Fairon) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=C%C3%A9drick+Fairon) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=C%C3%A9drick+Fairon) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=C%C3%A9drick+Fairon)

## Affiliations

[🎓**UCLouvain** Louvain-la-Neuve · Belgium 2004–2026 · 48 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/uclouvain/) · [🎓**KU Leuven** Leuven · Belgium 2004–2024 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ku-leuven/) · [🎓**University College London** London · United Kingdom 2004–2020 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-college-london/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

## Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/)

🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[French · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/french/)

## Works by year

### 2010s

[**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cedrick-fairon/year/2016/) · [**2012** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cedrick-fairon/year/2012/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[An “AI readability” Formula for French as a Foreign Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/francois-2012-ai-readability-formula-french-as/)** *(2012 · 174 citations)* Readability tools for French as a foreign language (FFL) have been scarce, and the few that exist either use only a handful of features or target one learner group, such as English speakers.
2. **[TAXI at SemEval-2016 Task 13: a Taxonomy Induction Method based on Lexico-Syntactic Patterns, Substrings and Focused Crawling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/panchenko-2016-taxi-semeval-2016-task-13/)** *(2016 · 90 citations)* The paper presents TAXI, the system that won every subtask of SemEval-2016 Task 13 (Taxonomy Extraction Evaluation).

## All works

17 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[An “AI readability” Formula for French as a Foreign Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/francois-2012-ai-readability-formula-french-as/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Thomas François, Cédrick Fairon*2012 · 174 citations*
2. **[TAXI at SemEval-2016 Task 13: a Taxonomy Induction Method based on Lexico-Syntactic Patterns, Substrings and Focused Crawling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/panchenko-2016-taxi-semeval-2016-task-13/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Alexander Panchenko, Stefano Faralli, Eugen Ruppert, et al.*2016 · 90 citations*
3. **[FLELex: a graded lexical resource for French foreign learners ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L14-1083/) Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14) · no summary yet**Thomas François et al.*2014 · 64 citations*
4. **[A translated corpus of 30,000 French SMS ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L06-1148/) Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'06) · no summary yet**Cédrick Fairon, Sébastien Paumier*2006 · 53 citations*
5. **[Une approche hybride traduction/correction pour la normalisation des SMS ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2010.jeptalnrecital-long.12/) Actes de la 17e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles longs · no summary yet**Richard Beaufort et al.*2010 · 44 citations*
6. **[NT2Lex: A CEFR-Graded Lexical Resource for Dutch as a Foreign Language Linked to Open Dutch WordNet ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0514/) Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications · no summary yet**Anaïs Tack et al.*2018 · 24 citations*
7. **[Evaluating Lexical Simplification and Vocabulary Knowledge for Learners of French: Possibilities of Using the FLELex Resource ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L16-1035/) Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16) · no summary yet**Anaïs Tack et al.*2016 · 22 citations*
8. **[Les apports du TAL à la lisibilité du français langue étrangère Contributions of NLP to the readability of French as a foreign language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2013.tal-1.6/) no summary yet**Thomas François, Cédrick Fairon*2013 · 9 citations*
9. **[Automatic Item Text Generation in Educational Assessment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2002.jeptalnrecital-poster.13/) Actes de la 9ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Posters · no summary yet**Cédrick Fairon, David M. Williamson*2002 · 5 citations*
10. **[AMesure: a readability formula for administrative texts (AMESURE: une plateforme de lisibilité pour les textes administratifs) in French ↗](https://aclanthology.org/F14-2014/) Proceedings of TALN 2014 (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yet**Thomas François et al.*2014 · 4 citations*
11. **[La subjectivité dans le journalisme québécois et belge : transfert de connaissance inter-médias et inter-cultures ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.jeptalnrecital-trad.8/) Actes de la 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 2 : traductions d'articles publiès · no summary yet**Louis Escouflaire et al.*2024 · 1 citation*
12. **[Study of lexical aspect in the French medical language. Development of a lexical resource ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1907/) Proceedings of the 2nd Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop · no summary yet**Agathe Pierson, Cédrick Fairon*2019 · 1 citation*
13. **[Recto /Verso Un système de conversion automatique ancienne / nouvelle orthographe à visée linguistique et didactique ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2009.jeptalnrecital-court.33/) Actes de la 16ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles courts · no summary yet**Richard Beaufort et al.*2009 · 1 citation*
14. **[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) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2016.jeptalnrecital-poster.8/) Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016. volume 2 : TALN (Posters) · no summary yet**Adeline Müller et al.*2016*
15. **[Search and Visualization of Semantically Related Words (Recherche et visualisation de mots sémantiquement liés) in French ↗](https://aclanthology.org/F13-2031/) Proceedings of TALN 2013 (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yet**Alexander Panchenko et al.*2013*
16. **[Text-it /Voice-it Une application mobile de normalisation des SMS ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2010.jeptalnrecital-demonstration.10/) Actes de la 17e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Démonstrations · no summary yet**Richard Beaufort, Kévin Macé, Cédrick Fairon*2010*
17. **[Expressive : Génération automatique de parole expressive à partir de données non linguistiques ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2010.jeptalnrecital-demonstration.5/) Actes de la 17e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Démonstrations · no summary yet**Olivier Blanc et al.*2010*

## Co-authors here

6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Alexander Panchenko](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-panchenko/)
- [Chris Biemann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-biemann/)
- [Simone Paolo Ponzetto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-paolo-ponzetto/)
- [Stefano Faralli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefano-faralli/)
- [Steffen Remus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steffen-remus/)
- [Thomas François](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-francois/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'06) ×3
- Actes de la 17e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Démonstrations ×2
- Proceedings of TALN 2014 (Volume 2: Short Papers) ×2
- [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2012](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2012/)
- [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/): [SemEval 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2016/)
- Actes de la 16ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles courts
- Actes de la 17e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles longs
- Actes de la 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 2 : traductions d'articles publiès
- Actes de la 9ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Posters
- Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016. volume 2 : TALN (Posters)
- Proceedings of the 2nd Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 160 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cedrick-fairon/cited-by/).

Updated 3 November 2026