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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. **[Is Attention Explanation? An Introduction to the Debate ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.269/) Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Adrien Bibal et al.*2022 · 109 citations*
3. **[Syntactic Sentence Simplification for French ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W14-1206/) Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations (PITR) · no summary yet**Laetitia Brouwers et al.*2014 · 81 citations*
4. **[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*
5. **[Alector: A Parallel Corpus of Simplified French Texts with Alignments of Misreadings by Poor and Dyslexic Readers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.169/) Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yet**Núria Gala et al.*2020 · 58 citations*
6. **[EFLLex: A Graded Lexical Resource for Learners of English as a Foreign Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/durlich-2018-efllex-graded-lexical-resource-learners/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Luise Dürlich, Thomas François*2018 · 46 citations*
7. **[SVALex: a CEFR-graded Lexical Resource for Swedish Foreign and Second Language Learners ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L16-1032/) Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16) · no summary yet**Thomas François et al.*2016 · 45 citations*
8. **[Are Cohesive Features Relevant for Text Readability Evaluation? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C16-1094/) Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers · no summary yet**Amalia Todirascu et al.*2016 · 29 citations*
9. **[FABRA: French Aggregator-Based Readability Assessment toolkit ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.130/) Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yet**Rodrigo Wilkens et al.*2022 · 27 citations*
10. **[ReSyf: a French lexicon with ranked synonyms ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C18-1218/) Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Mokhtar B. Billami, Thomas François, Núria Gala*2018 · 27 citations*
11. **[Combining Expert Knowledge with Frequency Information to Infer CEFR Levels for Words ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.readi-1.13/) Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) · no summary yet**Alice Pintard, Thomas François*2020 · 24 citations*
12. **[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*
13. **[An analysis of a French as a Foreign Language Corpus for Readability Assessment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W14-3502/) Proceedings of the third workshop on NLP for computer-assisted language learning · no summary yet**François, Thomas*2014 · 23 citations*
14. **[On the Contribution of MWE-based Features to a Readability Formula for French as a Foreign Language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/R11-1061/) Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2011 · no summary yet**Thomas François, Patrick Watrin*2011 · 23 citations*
15. **[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*
16. **[Linguistic Corpus Annotation for Automatic Text Simplification Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.121/) Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Rémi Cardon et al.*2022 · 16 citations*
17. **[FrenLyS: A Tool for the Automatic Simplification of French General Language Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.ranlp-1.135/) Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021) · no summary yet**Eva Rolin et al.*2021 · 15 citations*
18. **[Extending a Text-to-Pictograph System to French and to Arasaac ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.ranlp-1.118/) Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021) · no summary yet**Magali Norré et al.*2021 · 13 citations*
19. **[Assisted Lexical Simplification for French Native Children with Reading Difficulties ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-7004/) Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Automatic Text Adaptation (ATA) · no summary yet**Firas Hmida et al.*2018 · 12 citations*
20. **[CENTAL at TSAR-2022 Shared Task: How Does Context Impact BERT-Generated Substitutions for Lexical Simplification? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.tsar-1.25/) Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022) · no summary yet**Rodrigo 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 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.210/) Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Rodrigo Wilkens et al.*2023 · 9 citations*
22. **[HECTOR: A Hybrid TExt SimplifiCation TOol for Raw Texts in French ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.493/) Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yet**Amalia 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 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2013.tal-1.6/) no summary yet**Thomas François, Cédrick Fairon*2013 · 9 citations*
24. **[Modèles statistiques pour l'estimation automatique de la difficulté de textes de FLE ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2009.jeptalnrecital-recital.7/) 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 yet**François, Thomas*2009 · 7 citations*
25. **[Text Simplification to Help Individuals with Low Vision Read More Fluently ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.readi-1.5/) Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) · no summary yet**Lauren 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) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2016.jeptalnrecital-long.2/) Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016. volume 2 : TALN (Articles longs) · no summary yet**Thomas Francois et al.*2016 · 6 citations*
27. **[Jargon: A Suite of Language Models and Evaluation Tasks for French Specialized Domains ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.827/) Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yet**Vincent 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 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/F14-2014/) Proceedings of TALN 2014 (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yet**Thomas François et al.*2014 · 4 citations*
29. **[MWE for Essay Scoring English as a Foreign Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wilkens-2022-mwe-essay-scoring-english-as/) [Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/readi/)**Rodrigo 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) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2016.jeptalnrecital-long.17/) Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016. volume 2 : TALN (Articles longs) · no summary yet**Anaïs Tack et al.*2016 · 3 citations*
31. **[Contribution of Move Structure to Automatic Genre Identification: An Annotated Corpus of French Tourism Websites ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.347/) Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yet**Rémi 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 ? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.jeptalnrecital-taln.37/) Actes de la 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 1 : articles longs et prises de position · no summary yet**Minami 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 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.jeptalnrecital-trad.6/) Actes de la 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 2 : traductions d'articles publiès · no summary yet**Vincent Segonne et al.*2024 · 1 citation*
34. **[PADDLe: a Platform to Identify Complex Words for Learners of French as a Foreign Language (FFL) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.readi-1.7/) 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 yet**Camille Pirali, Thomas François, Núria Gala*2022 · 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) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2019.jeptalnrecital-long.10/) Actes de la Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN) PFIA 2019. Volume I : Articles longs · no summary yet**Amalia Todirascu, Marion Cargill, Thomas Francois*2019 · 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) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2011.jeptalnrecital-court.3/) Actes de la 18e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles courts · no summary yet**Thomas François, Patrick Watrin*2011 · 1 citation*
37. **[Automated Essay Scoring and Language Certification: Assessing Generalizability, Agreement and Validity for French](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wilkens-2026-automated-essay-scoring-language-certification/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Rodrigo Wilkens, Rémi Cardon, Vincent Folny, et al.*2026*
38. **[Automatic Extraction of Textual and Phonemic Complexity for French Cued Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/norre-2026-automatic-extraction-textual-phonemic-complexity/) [Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/readi/)**Magali Norré, Brigitte Bigi, Núria Gala, et al.*2026*
39. **[Book Complexity Level Assignment in French and Portuguese ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.2/) Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 · no summary yet**Jorge Baptista et al.*2026*
40. **[A Learner-Oriented Annotated Resource of French Multiword Expressions for Text Adaptation in Foreign Language Reading ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.14/) Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 · no summary yet**Anna 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)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aissa-2025-modelisation-de-la-lisibilite-en/) [JEP-TALN-RECITAL (the French-speaking conferences on speech and natural language processing)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/jeptalnrecital/)**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 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.jeptalnrecital-trad.1/) Actes de la 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 2 : traductions d'articles publiès · no summary yet**Remi Cardon et al.*2024*
43. **[L'impact de genre sur la prédiction de la lisibilité du texte en FLE ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.jeptalnrecital-taln.32/) Actes de la 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 1 : articles longs et prises de position · no summary yet**Lingyun Gao, Rodrigo Wilkens, Thomas François*2024*
44. **[Paying attention to the words: explaining readability prediction for French as a foreign language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.readi-1.9/) Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) @ LREC-COLING 2024 · no summary yet**Rodrigo Wilkens, Patrick Watrin, Thomas François*2024*
45. **[Annotation Linguistique pour l'Évaluation de la Simplification Automatique de Textes ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.jeptalnrecital-international.5/) 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 yet**Rémi Cardon et al.*2023*
46. **[The Interface Between Readability and Automatic Text Simplification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-7001/) Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Automatic Text Adaptation (ATA) · no summary yet**François, Thomas*2018*
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) ↗](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*