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Serge Bibauw
Researcher in Computer-Assisted Language Learning
KU Leuven
UCLouvain
Universidad Central del Ecuador
About me
As a Junior Researcher at KU Leuven (ITEC team, also at imec) and UCLouvain (CENTAL team, part of ILC), I’m currently working on dialogue-based CALL, more precisely on task-oriented dialogue systems/agents (chatbots) for language learning, at the intersection of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and natural language processing (NLP). My research focuses on the instructional design and the effectiveness evaluation of dialogue-based CALL systems on L2 proficiency development.
I am a PhD candidate in Linguistics thanks to a SENESCYT scholarship (Ecuador). I am also an Assistant Professor of French Linguistics and Language Teaching at Universidad Central del Ecuador. After finishing my PhD, I will return to Ecuador to continue to teach and conduct research in Quito. Previously, I worked as a research assistant at UCLouvain on reflexive writing in general education.
Interests
- Dialogue-based CALL: dialogue systems/chatbots for language learning
- Intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL, i.e. NLP for CALL)
- Measuring L2 proficiency, incl. longitudinal development
- L2 writing fluency
- Foreign language teaching
Education
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PhD in Linguistics, ongoing
KU Leuven
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Agrégation in Romance Languages, 2007
UCLouvain
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MA in Romance Languages, 2007
UCLouvain
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BA in Romance Languages, 2004
Université Saint-Louis
