Publications

by Louis Escouflaire, updated October 2026

Journal articles

• Escouflaire, L. (2027). Le je journalistique : étude multidisciplinaire des marqueurs linguistiques de la subjectivité dans le discours de presse francophone. Itinéraires. Littérature, textes, cultures, 2027-1.
• Escouflaire, L., Bogaert, J., Descampe, A., Fairon, C., de Marneffe, M.-C., Standaert, F.-X. (2026). Explanation Variability in Text Classification: Humans vs. LLMs. Computational Linguistics, 52(2), MIT Press.
• Escouflaire, L., Descampe, A., & Fairon, C. (2026). A ‘fine amalgam’ of a style: how French-speaking Canadian and Belgian journalists perceive objective newswriting. Journalism Practice, 20, Taylor & Francis.
• Lombart, E., & Escouflaire, L. (2025). Beyond the smile: A longitudinal corpus analysis of the ‘smiling face’ emoji in French tweets. In A. Bączkowska (Ed.), Unveiling Emotions in Discourse Across Media and Natural Encounters. Harassowitz Verlag.
• Escouflaire, L., Descampe, A., Fairon, C. (2024). Automated Text Classification of Opinion vs. News French Press Articles. A Comparison of Transformer and Feature-based Approaches. Language and Communication. Special Issue: Linguistic Aspects of Expressing Point of View in Journalism.
• Bogaert, J., de Marneffe, M.-C., Descampe, A., Escouflaire, L., Fairon, C., Standaert, F.-X. (2024). Sensibilité des explications à l'aléa des grands modèles de langage : le cas de la classification de textes journalistiques. TAL. Traitement Automatique des Langues, Explicabilité des modèles de langue, 64(3).
• Escouflaire, L., Descampe, A., Fairon, C. (2024). Unveiling subjectivity in press discourse: a statistical and qualitative study of manually annotated articles. Discourse, 34.
• Escouflaire, L. (2022). Transgresser pour mieux raconter: la métalepse dans la série WandaVision. Cahiers de Narratologie. Analyse et théorie narratives, 41.
• Escouflaire, L. (2021). Signaling irony, displaying politeness, replacing words: The eight linguistic functions of emoji in computer-mediated discourse. Lingvisticæ Investigationes, 44(2), p. 204-235.

Conference articles

• Escouflaire, L. (2026). CroCoSyn: A Cross-Lingual and Cross-Model Corpus of LLM-Generated Film Synopses. Proceedings of the 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature. Rabat, Morocco.
• Escouflaire, L., Bogaert, J., Descampe, A., Fairon, C., Standaert, F.-X. (2026). Explaining Explanations: Interpretability Methods for Discourse Analysis of Transformer Attention Maps. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. Palma, Spain.
• Escouflaire, L. (2025). Unintentionally Breaking the Fifth Wall: How Generative AI Invites Metalepsis in Real Life. 8th International Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative. Geneva, Switzerland.
• Escouflaire, L. (2025). Stereotypes in AI Stories: Identifying Societal Bias in Narratives Generated by Large Language Models. 8th International Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative. Geneva, Switzerland.
• Escouflaire, L., Descampe, A., Venant, A., & Fairon, C. (2024). La subjectivité dans le journalisme québécois et belge: transfert de connaissance inter-médias et inter-cultures. In Proceedings of JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2024. 31st Conference on Natural Language Processing. Toulouse, France.
• Escouflaire, L., Blochowiak, J., Degand, L., & de Marneffe, M. C. (2024). Which connective fits best:‘car’or ‘parce que’? A challenge for both humans and LLMs. JADT 2024: 17th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data. Brussels, Belgium.
• Escouflaire, L., Bogaert, J., Descampe, A., & Fairon, C. (2023). The RTBF Corpus: a dataset of 750,000 Belgian French news articles published between 2008 and 2021. In International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (JLC). Grenoble, France.
• Bogaert, J., Escouflaire, L., de Marneffe, M. C., Descampe, A., Standaert, F. X., & Fairon, C. (2023). TIPECS: A corpus cleaning method using machine learning and qualitative analysis. In International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (JLC). Grenoble, France.
• Escouflaire, L., Descampe, A., & Fairon, C. (2022). L’évolution de la subjectivité linguistique dans le journalisme web du XXIe siècle: analyse d’un corpus belge francophone d’articles de 2010 à 2021. JADT 2022: 16th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data. Naples, Italy.
• Escouflaire, L. (2022). Identification des indicateurs linguistiques de la subjectivité les plus efficaces pour la classification d’articles de presse en français. Actes de la 29e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Volume 2: 24e Rencontres Etudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le TAL (RECITAL), p. 69-82. Avignon, France. Best paper award.

Other publications

• Bousquet, F., Descampe, A., El Hajj Mohamed, I., Escouflaire, L., Marty, F., Pignard-Cheynel, N., Ratinaud, P., Sebbah, B. & Tsimpoukis, P. (2022). La presse en quête de science: la médiatisation de la science dans Le Monde, Le Soir et Le Temps. Rapport de recherche.