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;
- To 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 an approach of transfer, application and development of research towards the Master and Doctorate courses supported by the Unit and towards the professional and socio-economic sectors that are related to the Unit’s research questions: processing and exploitation of metadata; linguistic engineering; second language acquisition.