SERGE VERLINDE is Professor of French for Specific Purposes (Business French, Legal French) and Director of the Leuven Language Institute at the University of Leuven, Belgium. His main research interests are corpus linguistics, pedagogical lexicography and CALL (Computer-assisted language learning). He is the co-author of the 'Dictionnaire d'apprentissage du français des affaires' (DAFA - Paris: Didier). Recently, he has developed web applications for learning and teaching French vocabulary: the 'Base lexicale du français' and 'Alfalex' (http://ilt.kuleuven.be/blf). He is currently working on online reading, translating and writing assistants for Dutch and French.