The research unit LIDILE (Linguistics – Engineering – Didactics of Languages) was inaugurated in 2004, under the impulse of two University Professors: Martine SCHUWER (PR 11th section) and Marie-Claude LE BOT (PR 7th section).
Martine SCHUWER directed LIDILE from 2004-2012
Marie-Claude LE BOT from 2012-2018
Élisabeth RICHARD from 2018 to 2021
It is currently directed by Christine Evain.
PRESENTATION OF THE UNIT
The research unit LIDILE – Linguistics, Engineering, Didactics of Languages – is the result of a scientific project structured around the analysis of language activity, description, formalization, in the variety of its modes or fields of application, and through the diversity of natural languages.
SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES
The LIDILE research unit has the following scientific objectives
To develop a 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 (NLP), translatology, experimental phonetics; language didactics, contrastive analysis;
To support the transfer, application and development of research towards the Master’s and Doctoral programs supported by the Unit and towards the professional and socio-economic sectors in phase with the Unit’s questions: processing and exploitation of metadata, linguistic engineering; language teaching and learning.
STRUCTURE
The unit is organized around three complementary/additional thematic fields
ELIA: Applied Linguistics Studies
TRASILT: Specialized Translation, Language Engineering and Terminology
DiLeM: Didactics of Languages and Multimedia.