International audience; Active corpus provides the possibility to apply searching and statistical computing as if corpus were reduced to selected words, whereas full text still remains visible in context display. This is mainly implemented in paradigmatic processing, ye...

International audience; Linguistic change in 17th c. France: new scriptometric approaches The end of the 17th c. remains a blind spot of the research on the spelling system, despite its importance for French at this period, during which a strict norm, still (more or les...

Knowledge-based societies rely to a large extent on intangible assets and digital technologies, and these are having an increasing impact on information systems, power, governance and citizenship, driven by a proliferation of stakeholders and networks at multiple levels...

8 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables; International audience; Language models for historical states of language are becoming increasingly important to allow the optimal digitisation and analysis of old textual sources. Because these historical states are at the same time more c...

International audience; Spelling normalisation is a useful step in the study and analysis of historical language texts, whether it is manual analysis by experts or automatic analysis using downstream natural language processing (NLP) tools. Not only does it help to homo...

A major goal of curating natural history collections or cultural artefacts in museums, herbaria, libraries and archives is to create diverse and rich narratives around them. Their investigation by computational methods enables scholars to discover new connections and pa...

This paper discusses the development of data-driven stories and the editorial processes underlying their production. Such ‘data stories’ have proliferated in journalism but are also increasingly developed within academia. Although ‘data stories’ ...

Abstract for the DH Benelux 2022 conference in Luxembourg.

Using pre-trained transformer models such as BERT has proven to be effective in many NLP tasks. This paper presents our work to fine-tune BERT models for Arabic Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). We treated the WSD task as a sentence-pair binary classification task. First...

À partir de l’observation d’un paysage agraire actuel, la résolution spatiale des assemblages de gastéropodes terrestres a été analysée. Les résultats montrent que chaque assemblage malacologique correspond le plus souvent à un habitat, voire au plus à deux habitats acc...