--- title: "Yves Bestgen · UCLouvain — author profile and papers" description: "Yves Bestgen, UCLouvain: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 23 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yves-bestgen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yves-bestgen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yves Bestgen # Yves Bestgen Yves Bestgen has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5001187074) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7407-7797) · [**h-index 23**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5001187074) · [215 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5001187074) · [2,270 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5001187074&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yves-bestgen/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 13 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yves-bestgen/cited-by/) · [11 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11326](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/114/#star-11326) 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=Yves+Bestgen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yves+Bestgen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yves+Bestgen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yves+Bestgen) ## Affiliations [🎓**UCLouvain** Louvain-la-Neuve · Belgium 1989–2026 · 60 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/uclouvain/) · [🎓**KU Leuven** Leuven · Belgium 1989–2026 · 19 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ku-leuven/) · [🎓**University College London** London · United Kingdom 2002–2011 · 10 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. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## 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 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yves-bestgen/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yves-bestgen/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[SATLab at BEA 2026 Shared Task 1: Predicting the Difficulty of English Words for Three L1 Learners Using Primarily Psycholinguistic Features](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bestgen-2026-satlab-bea-2026-shared-task/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* This paper presents the system SATLab submitted to a BEA 2026 shared task focused on how difficult vocabulary items are. 2. **[SATLab at BAREC Shared Task 2025: Optimizing a Language-Independent System for Fine-Grained Readability Assessment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bestgen-2025-satlab-barec-shared-task-2025/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* SATLab tackled the BAREC Shared Task 2025, which asks systems to predict the readability of Arabic sentences and documents on a 19-level ordinal scale. ## All works 13 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. **[Comment évaluer les algorithmes de segmentation automatique ? Essai de construction d'un matériel de référence. ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.jeptalnrecital-poster.4/) Actes de la 13ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Posters · no summary yet**Yves Bestgen, Sophie Piérard*2006 · 12 citations* 2. **[Quel indice pour mesurer l'efficacité en segmentation de textes? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2009.jeptalnrecital-long.18/) Actes de la 16ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles longs · no summary yet**Bestgen, Yves*2009 · 7 citations* 3. **[Identification de mots germes pour la construction d'un lexique de valence au moyen d'une procédure supervisée (Identification of seed words for building a valence lexicon using a supervised procedure) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2011.jeptalnrecital-long.14/) Actes de la 18e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles longs · no summary yet**Nadja Vincze, Yves Bestgen*2011 · 5 citations* 4. **[L'analyse sémantique latente et l'identification des métaphores ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2002.jeptalnrecital-poster.3/) Actes de la 9ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Posters · no summary yet**Yves Bestgen, Anne-Françoise Cabiaux*2002 · 5 citations* 5. **[Une procédure automatique pour étendre des normes lexicales par l'analyse des cooccurrences dans des textes An automatic procedure for extending lexical norms by means of the analysis of word co-occurrences in texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2011.tal-3.8/) no summary yet**Nadja Vincze, Yves Bestgen*2011 · 3 citations* 6. **[Une procédure pour identifier les modifieurs de la valence affective d'un mot dans des textes (A procedure to identify modifiers of the word emotional valence in texts) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2011.jeptalnrecital-court.23/) Actes de la 18e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles courts · no summary yet**Noémi Boubel, Yves Bestgen*2011 · 2 citations* 7. **[SATLab at BEA 2026 Shared Task 1: Predicting the Difficulty of English Words for Three L1 Learners Using Primarily Psycholinguistic Features](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bestgen-2026-satlab-bea-2026-shared-task/) [Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/)**Yves Bestgen*2026 · 1 citation* 8. **[SATLab at BAREC Shared Task 2025: Optimizing a Language-Independent System for Fine-Grained Readability Assessment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bestgen-2025-satlab-barec-shared-task-2025/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/)**Yves Bestgen*2025 · 1 citation* 9. **[Évaluation de mesures d'association pour les bigrammes et les trigrammes au moyen du test exact de Fisher (Using Fisher's Exact Test to Evaluate Association Measures for Bigrams and Trigrams) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2017.jeptalnrecital-court.2/) Actes des 24ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Volume 2 - Articles courts · no summary yet**Bestgen, Yves*2017 · 1 citation* 10. **[Amélioration de la segmentation automatique des textes grâce aux connaissances acquises par l'analyse sémantique latente ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2005.jeptalnrecital-long.21/) Actes de la 12ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles longs · no summary yet**Bestgen, Yves*2005 · 1 citation* 11. **[Utilisation d'indices phraséologiques pour évaluer des textes en langue étrangère : comparaison des bigrammes et des trigrammes (Collocation measures and automated scoring of foreign language texts : Comparing bigrams and trigrams) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2017.jeptalnrecital-long.4/) Actes des 24ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Volume 1 - Articles longs · no summary yet**Bestgen, Yves*2017* 12. **[Validation interne et externe d'indices phraséologiques pour l'évaluation automatique de textes rédigés en anglais langue étrangère Intrinsic and extrinsic validation of phraseological cues for automatic evaluation of texts written in English as a foreign language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2016.tal-3.5/) DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) · no summary yet**Bestgen, Yves*2016* 13. **[Vers une analyse des différences interlinguistiques entre les genres textuels : étude de cas basée sur les n-grammes et l'analyse factorielle des correspondances (Towards a cross-linguistic analysis of genres: A case study based on n-grams and Correspondence Analysis) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2016.jeptalnrecital-poster.31/) Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016. volume 2 : TALN (Posters) · no summary yet**Marie-Aude Lefer, Yves Bestgen, Natalia Grabar*2016* ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/): [ArabicNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2025/) - [Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/): [BEA 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2026/) - Actes de la 12ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles longs - Actes de la 13ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Posters - Actes de la 16ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles longs - Actes de la 18e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles courts - Actes de la 18e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles longs - 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) - Actes des 24ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Volume 1 - Articles longs - Actes des 24ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Volume 2 - Articles courts - DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 13 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yves-bestgen/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026