Thomas Gaillat
thomas.gaillat AT univ-rennes2.fr
IdHAL thomas-gaillat
Lecturer & Researcher
- Teacher of English for Specific Purposes
- Lecturer in Corpus Linguistics
Team
- EA 3874 Linguistique, Ingénierie et Didactique des Langues - LIDILE
My work covers linguistic questions intersecting the domains of Natural Language Processing, corpus linguistics and statistics. His first research axis is focused on language acquisition questions. After a postdoc position at Insight Data Centre NUI Galway Ireland, I developed a second axis focused on Sentiment Analysis and quantitative methods for language analysis.
I am the Principal Investigator of the project Analytics for Language Learning (A4LL) funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche.
PhD
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PhD defended on June 16, 2016 Awarded Summa cum Laude - Université Paris Diderot Reference in Interlanguage: the case of THIS and THAT. From annotation to interoperability Supervisors: Nicolas Ballier — Université Paris Diderot & Pascale Sébillot — INRIA/INSA de Rennes |
Corpora
Native English corpora ICE-GB, Penn Treebank WSJ,
Learner corpora CELVA.Sp, EFCAMDAT, Diderot-LONGDALE, ANGLISH, NOCE,
Software tools and programming languages
Tools: LCA, L2SCA, TAALES, TAACO, TAASC Classifier TiMBL, Treetagger, Stanford Tregex/Tsurgeon,
Structures: NITE NXT Search
Programming: R, Python, XML, PERL
Projects
2022-2024 Analytics for Language Learning (A4LL) - French National Research Agency grant
Language Teachers could benefit from language analytics to support and accelerate teaching decisions. The A4LL project will develop an innovative language-learning analytics system designed to assist teachers and learners with objective reports linking proficiency with linguistic features. We propose an approach relying on textual measures operationalising global and structure complexity, phraseology, discourse cohesion, and fluency. These measures will support the automatic creation of graphic reports used by teachers to diagnose their learners’ productions.
2019 - PHC Ulysse France Ireland "Investigating criterial features of learner English and AI-driven automatic language level assessment"
2019 - DUNE DESIR Universités de Rennes "Visualisations Linguistiques des profils linguistiques d'apprenants d'anglais". "Visualizing linguistic profiles in L2 English writings"
Dissemination
December 20224: