SYLVIANE GRANGER is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Louvain (Belgium). She is the Director of the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics where research activity is focused on the compilation and exploitation of learner corpora and multilingual corpora. Her current research interests focus on the integration of corpus data into a range of user-oriented tools (electronic dictionaries, writing aids, spell checkers and essay scoring tools). Her latest publications include International Corpus of Learner English (Granger et al. 2009) and eLexicography in the 21st century: New challenges, new applications (Granger & Paquot eds. 2010).