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Thomas François, chercheur et professeur à l'UCLouvain

Thomas François

Associate Professor at the UCLouvain
Applied linguistics, Natural language processing

Welcome to my homepage !

I am Thomas François, an Associate Professor at UCLouvain since September 1st, 2022. My work focuses on the issue of efficient communication in various contexts (mostly professional).

Previously, I carried out research in the fields of readability, text simplification, automatic complex word identification, all topics that are concerned with the assessment of language difficulty for various kinds of audiences (learners of a foreign language, readers with some language issue, readers of speciality texts, etc.) and with different aims.

The Center for Automatic Language Processing (CENTAL)

I am currently part of the Center for Automatic Language Processing (CENTAL). The CENTAL is a a technological platform and a research laboratory hosting many researchers specialized in the computer processing of textual data. The lab aims to brings its expertise by devoting time to research, to service to society but also to teaching.

Logo du Cental, Centre du Traitement Automatique du Langage

Research interests

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