The research department Linguistics, Technologies, Language Teaching Principles and Practice (LIDILE) was inaugurated in 2004, under the supervision of two University Professors: Martine Schuwer and Marie-Claude Le Bot.
Martine Schuwer directed LIDILE from 2004 to 2012
Marie-Claude Le Bot from 2012 to 2018
Élisabeth Richard from 2018 to 2021
LIDILE is currently directed by Christine Evain.
OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT
The research unit LIDILE is the result of a scientific project structured around the analysis of language activity, description, formalisation—in a variety of modes and fields of application—and through the diversity of natural languages.
SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES
The LIDILE research unit has the following scientific objectives:
To develop well-founded epistemological and methodological expertise in the field of language sciences and in its related disciplinary fields: linguistics, cognition, computer science;
Create a synergy based on common research approaches: language description, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, Natural Language Processing, translatology, experimental phonetics; language didactics, contrastive analysis;
To support the transfer, application and development of research in relation to the Master and PhD programs, and the professional and socio-economic sectors in step with the Department’s questions: processing and exploitation of metadata, linguistic engineering, language teaching and learning.
STRUCTURE
The Department is organised around three complementary thematic fields
ELIA: Studies in Applied Linguistics;
TRASILT: Specialised Translation, Linguistic Engineering and Terminology;
DiLeM: Language Teaching Principles, Practice, and Multimedia.