{"id":363,"date":"2016-01-04T17:06:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T16:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/magali.paquot\/?page_id=363"},"modified":"2025-01-08T09:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T08:10:08","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/magali.paquot\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a FNRS Senior Research Associate and Professor of Linguistics at UCLouvain, Belgium, co-director of the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics<\/a>, and a member of the Institute for Language and Communication<\/a> and the Language and Literature School<\/a>. I coordinate the CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Learner Corpora.<\/a>\u00a0I am also an affiliate member of the Corpus Linguistics Lab<\/a>, University of Florida.<\/p>\n

I hold a PhD in Linguistics (Universit\u00e9 catholique de Louvain) and a degree in Natural Language Processing (Universit\u00e9 de Li\u00e8ge).<\/p>\n

I specialize in the use of learner corpora to study key topics in Second Language Acquisition (crosslinguistic influence, complexity, formulaic language\/phraseology) and I am particularly interested in methodological issues (from corpus design to corpus analysis).<\/p>\n

I am founding editor (with Marcus Callies, Bremen University) and co-editor (with Sandra G\u00f6tz, Philipps University Marburg) of the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research<\/a>.\u00a0 I co-edited two handbooks that represent my research interests well:<\/p>\n