Patrick Drouin

Patrick Drouin is a Professor and Department Director at the Université de Montréal, based in the Faculté des arts et des sciences and the Departement de linguistique et de traduction. His research focuses on computational terminology, corpus linguistics, and the automatic acquisition of specialized lexicons. He leads major projects like the NÉONUM initiative for monitoring Quebec French neology and the Lexique entre humains et machines team exploring human-machine lexical interactions.

Teaching: He teaches advanced terminology (TRA-3455), localization workshops (TRA-6301), and directs programs in Linguistics and Translation at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Over 10 PhD and Master's students have been supervised by Drouin since 2007, focusing on topics like semantic shifts, terminological evolution, and corpus-based lexicography.

Research Projects: Co-leads interdisciplinary teams funded by FRQSC and SSHRC, including studies on morphophonological variation via Twitter data, transdisciplinary vocabulary for primary education, and the historical analysis of terminology in translation studies. Key contributions include the SyllabO+ corpus and the QC-FR-Diac-V1 semantic shifts dataset.

Grants: Secured over CAD 2M in funding for projects like Twitter-MPhon (2021–2025) and Lexiques nucléaires (2019–2025), emphasizing computational methods in linguistic research.

Labs/Teams: Active in the Equipe SE (Lexical Studies) and collaborates with institutions like IRIC for biology-informatics interfaces. His work bridges theoretical linguistics with applied technologies for terminology management and language education.