Talks

by Louis Escouflaire, updated October 2026

Conference presentations

• Escouflaire, L., Santos, N., Burchett, C., Dodeigne, J. (2027). Partisan Semantics in Group Appeals: A Diachronic Comparison of Language Change between Labour and Conservative British Parliamentary Discourse. Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics 2027 (QDLCA27). London, United Kingdom.
• Escouflaire, L., Copet, S. (2026). Does Obscenity Survive Localization? A Large-scale Diachronic Corpus Study of Offensive Character Voice in English and French in the Grand Theft Auto Series.2026 BAAHE conference. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
• Escouflaire, L., Bogaert, J., Descampe, A., Fairon, C., de Marneffe, M.-C., Standaert, F.-X. (2026). Explanation Variability in Text Classification: Humans vs. LLMs. EMNLP 2026. Budapest, Hungary.
• Escouflaire, L. (2026). Unsmurfed: How an LLM Interprets the Smurfs’ Distributional Language Digital Humanities Benelux 2026. Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• 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., 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.
• Jacquemin, A., Escouflaire, L., & Descampe, A. (2024). L'identité entrepreneuriale façonnée par la presse écrite francophone belge : Une décennie de construction fluide aux multiples facettes. 17e congrès CIFEPME. Québec, Canada.
• 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., Descampe, A., & Fairon, C. (2023). Mapping Subjectivity in Press Discourse: Human vs. Transformer Comprehension of Belgian French Press Articles. New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data 2023. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
• 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).
• 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).
• Escouflaire, L., Descampe, A., Lits, G. & Fairon, C. (2023). Analyzing the semantic evolution of bias in French news articles using word embeddings (Digital Humanities Benelux 2023). KBR, Brussels.
• Escouflaire, L., Descampe, A., & Fairon, C. (2022). Detecting opinion in news. An automated analysis of linguistic subjectivity in French-language press articles. 4th Biennial Conference of the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies (BIJU) - A true and fair view. VUB, Brussels.
• 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.
• Escouflaire, L. (2022). The linguistic functions of emoji in French and in English Facebook comments and Tweets: a multimodal corpus analysis of emoji in conversation. 13th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature. Sorbonne University, Paris.

Other interventions

• Presentation at the 2024 Doctoral Day of the "Language, Literature and Traductology" ED3BIS school. University of Namur (Belgium). May 21st, 2024.
• Winner of "My thesis in 180 seconds" (MT180) UCLouvain finals. March 18th, 2024.
• IL&C Poster Day 2024. "Car vs. Parce que: A challenge for both humans and LLMs." February 23rd, 2024.
• Presentation at the seminar of the Computational Social Science group (CSS) at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. December 6th, 2023.
• Presentation at the seminar of the OLST-RALI (University of Montréal). November 15th, 2023.
• Opening conference of the Master's program in Journalism at KULeuven. October 12th, 2023.
• Conference "ChatGPT and the use of AI for high school teaching" at Collège Saint-Augustin (Enghien, Belgium). May 25th, 2023.
• Intervention at the ORM conference "Journalism and climate emergency". May 10th, 2023.
• Conference "ChatGPT, AI and redaction" at the CLICK, Mons (Belgium). March 9th, 2023.
• IL&C Poster Day 2023. "Mieux comprendre pour mieux classer : l'IA et la linguistique au service de l'explicabilité." Best poster award (with Jérémie Bogaert). February 17th, 2023.
• Presentation at the 1st "Doctorales francophones en études médiatiques" (DIFEM), Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris, France). September 9th, 2022
• Presentation at the Festival "Jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses dans la cité" (FJCC), Brussels (Belgium). June 12th, 2022.
• Presentation at the AI4Belgium "Colloquium for young researchers and entrepreneurs in AI", Brussels (Belgium). March 17th, 2022.
• Presentation at the RTBF conference "AI and media", Liège (Belgium). February 8th, 2022
• Presentation at the ARPPEJ workshop "Journalism and data", Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). October 15th, 2021.
• Presentation at the workshop "Automated media and media education" at Saint-Louis University, Brussels (Belgium). September 9th, 2021.