Cortext platform
At Cortext, our goal is to empower researchers in the social sciences and humanities by promoting advanced qualitative-quantitative mixed methods. Our primary focus is on studies about the dynamics of science, technology and innovation, and about the roles of knowledge and expertise in societies.
We understand the move towards digital humanities and computational methods not as addressing a technological gap for the social sciences, but rather as entailing entirely new assemblages between its disciplines and those of modern statistics and computer sciences. We work to tackle ever more complex research problems and deal with the profusion of new and diverse sources of information without losing sight of the situatedness and reflexivity required of studies of human societies.
Cortext is hosted by the LISIS research unit at Gustave Eiffel University, and was launched by French institutes IFRIS and INRAE, receiving their continued support.
Cortext Manager
Cortext Manager is our current main attraction, a publicly available web service providing data analysis methods curated and developed by our team of researchers and engineers.
You upload a textual corpus in order to analyse its discourse, names, categories, citations, places, dates etc, with methods for science/controversy/issue mapping, distant reading, document clustering, geo-spatial and network visualizations, and more.
You can jump straight to Cortext Manager and create an account, but we strongly suggest taking a look at the Documentation and Tutorials as you start your journey.
Latest journal articles employing our instruments
Technical Reports
2023
Morais, Latino Loureiro
Veille sur la biodégradabilité des matériaux biosourcés Technical Report
2023.
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title = {Veille sur la biodégradabilité des matériaux biosourcés},
author = {Latino Loureiro Morais},
url = {https://www.fcba.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/PolyNat-Rapport-Veille-sur-la-biod%C3%A9gradabilit%C3%A9-des-mat%C3%A9riaux-biosourc%C3%A9s-022023.pdf},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-02-01},
urldate = {2023-02-01},
organization = {Institut technologique FCBA},
abstract = {Suite à la publication de la Directive relative à la réduction de l’incidence de certains produits en plastique sur l’environnement (2019/904, SUPP) et la transposition dans la loi française AGEC (Anti-gaspillage pour une économie circulaire), il est interdit de mettre sur le marché des produits à usage unique dont une des composantes fonctionnelles est un plastique.
Le critère de biodégradabilité pourrait être dérogatoire dans certains pays de l’Union Européenne, mais les conditions d’évaluation restent floues. Une harmonisation des méthodes de biodégradabilité pour les emballages et plastiques est nécessaire.
Selon European Bioplastics, organisation représentant les intérêts des industries européennes des plastiques biosourcés, si moins de la moitié des bioplastiques produits dans le monde en 2017 étaient biodégradables, cette part est montée à près des deux tiers en 2021 en Europe, ce qui semble aller dans le sens des volontés gouvernementales européennes.
Cette présente veille sur la biodégradabilité, réalisée dans le cadre d’une action de professionnalisation PolyNat, vise donc à suivre l’évolution des méthodes de caractérisation de la biodégradabilité et la persistance dans l’environnement les matériaux contenant des polymères synthétiques ou biosourcés à travers une revue scientifique de ces dernières années.},
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Le critère de biodégradabilité pourrait être dérogatoire dans certains pays de l’Union Européenne, mais les conditions d’évaluation restent floues. Une harmonisation des méthodes de biodégradabilité pour les emballages et plastiques est nécessaire.
Selon European Bioplastics, organisation représentant les intérêts des industries européennes des plastiques biosourcés, si moins de la moitié des bioplastiques produits dans le monde en 2017 étaient biodégradables, cette part est montée à près des deux tiers en 2021 en Europe, ce qui semble aller dans le sens des volontés gouvernementales européennes.
Cette présente veille sur la biodégradabilité, réalisée dans le cadre d’une action de professionnalisation PolyNat, vise donc à suivre l’évolution des méthodes de caractérisation de la biodégradabilité et la persistance dans l’environnement les matériaux contenant des polymères synthétiques ou biosourcés à travers une revue scientifique de ces dernières années.
Workshops
2023
Kocksch, Laura Anna; Sørensen, Estrid
Towards a Typology of Interdisciplinarity in Cybersecurity: Trade, Choice, and Agnostic-Antagonist Workshop
2023, (NSPW '23: Proceedings of the 2023 New Security Paradigms Workshop).
@workshop{Kocksch2023,
title = {Towards a Typology of Interdisciplinarity in Cybersecurity: Trade, Choice, and Agnostic-Antagonist},
author = {Laura Anna Kocksch and Estrid Sørensen},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3633500.3633510},
doi = {10.1145/3633500.3633510},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-12-22},
urldate = {2023-12-22},
abstract = {Cybersecurity research increasingly involves non-engineering disciplines, such as psychology, social science and law [ 41 ]. In this paper, we argue that cybersecurity research is not only reshaped through new methods and concepts of these adjacent fields, but also through shared interdisciplinary practices. Existing literature on interdisciplinarity in cybersecurity is primarily concerned with defining ideal models that are based on ideals, rather than in empirical research of how interdisciplinarity is formed in practice. We offer an ethnographic analysis of interdisciplinary formats based on our four-year participation in the ongoing interdisciplinary cybersecurity PhD programme SecHuman at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. The PhD programme brings together engineers, social scientists as well as humanities scholars. Drawing on methods and literature of ethnographic science and technology studies (STS), we attend to eight different interdisciplinary formats and analyse how they shape cybersecurity research: its logics of accountability, of innovation, and of ontology [3]. This leads to a typology of five modes of interdisciplinarity that can be found in the PhD programme: 1. choice, 2. subordinate-service, 3. integrative-synthetic, 4. trading, and 5. agonistic-antagonistic. Based on our empirical findings, we discuss how each mode shapes cybersecurity, and conclude with suggestions of how to craft interdisciplinary formats in the field.},
note = {NSPW '23: Proceedings of the 2023 New Security Paradigms Workshop},
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Laglil, Hajar
Digital Winter School : YouTube recommendation system Workshop
CrossOver 2023.
@workshop{Laglil2023,
title = {Digital Winter School : YouTube recommendation system},
author = {Hajar Laglil},
url = {https://crossover.social/crossover-participated-in-the-digital-winter-school-2023/},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-02-17},
organization = {CrossOver},
abstract = {CrossOver participated this January in the Digital Winter School and provided international students with its YouTube dataset. The Digital Methods Winter School is a one-week data sprint on a contemporary theme related to new media and digital methods in particular. It provided an opportunity for PhD candidates, advanced MA students and motivated scholars to work on a project together with the Amsterdam group of DMI researchers and/or international participants, occasionally drawn from previous Digital Methods Summer and Winter Schools.
This marked the first time CrossOver took part in such an event. The CrossOver team is thrilled to share the results of some students, hoping to participate in more events in which the project’s data can be analysed in the future.},
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This marked the first time CrossOver took part in such an event. The CrossOver team is thrilled to share the results of some students, hoping to participate in more events in which the project’s data can be analysed in the future.
Journal Articles
2022
Herrera-Pavo, Miguel Ángel; Navarrete, Verónica Orellana; Rodríguez, José Daniel Espinosa; Espinoza-Weaver, Yadhira
Diseño participativo de un Modelo Pedagógico para el Sistema Educativo Ecuatoriano Journal Article
In: PODIUM, vol. 42, pp. 93–116, 2022, ISSN: 1390-5473.
@article{Herrera-Pavo2022,
title = {Diseño participativo de un Modelo Pedagógico para el Sistema Educativo Ecuatoriano},
author = {Miguel Ángel Herrera-Pavo and Verónica Orellana Navarrete and José Daniel Espinosa Rodríguez and Yadhira Espinoza-Weaver},
url = {https://revistas.uees.edu.ec/index.php/Podium/article/view/920},
doi = {10.31095/podium.2022.42.6 },
issn = {1390-5473},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-12-27},
urldate = {2022-12-27},
journal = {PODIUM},
volume = {42},
pages = {93–116},
abstract = {La necesidad de un modelo pedagógico coherente con los fundamentos de las últimas reformas educativas y la política pública desarrollada por el Ministerio de Educación en el Ecuador impulsó el proceso de reflexión y construcción colaborativa que se recoge en el presente trabajo. Entre junio de 2020 y enero de 2021, con la participación de docentes, actores clave del sistema educativo y tomadores de decisiones, se desarrolló un proceso virtual de co-diseño que inició con un diálogo reflexivo y permitió la creación y posterior discusión de un prototipo, así como el diseño de un conjunto de estrategias para su implementación. El modelo pedagógico resultante, basado en el desarrollo de la actividad conjunta, fusiona los intereses de la política pública con la visión contextualizada de los docentes y demostró ser lo suficientemente abierto y flexible como para orientar los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje en las instituciones educativas públicas del país.},
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Long trends on twitter: intertemporal clusters combining hashtags and terms on Scientometrics, Altmetrics, Bibliometrics and Science Of Science
Long trends on twitter: inter-temporal clusters combining hashtags and terms, for all tweets on Scientometrics, Altmetrics, Bibliometrics and Science Of Science from Jan. 2017 to dec. 2021, on a semester base. Query used to extract tweets: lang:en (Scientometrics OR “ScienceOfScience” OR “Science Of Science” OR “Altmetrics” OR “altmetric” OR “bibliometrics” OR “bibliometric” OR “citation metrics” […]
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Présenter CorTexT Manager en 2 minutes
Cortext Manager est une application web construite par des chercheurs et par des ingénieurs à destination de chercheurs en sciences humaines et sociales, au plus près des questions portées par les chercheurs qui nous entourent et par notre communauté d’utilisateurs. Cette application web peut produire un grand nombre d’analyses différentes qui ont trait aux champs […]
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Analysis of the scientific production that mentioned the use of CorText Manager
There are two ways to understand what CorTexT Manager is. The first one is to look at what has been achieved in terms of methods, tools and therefore lines of code. The second one is studied below, by analyzing (here with CorTexT Manager) what academic users have published using… CorTexT Manager. Our study of the […]
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10 years of CorText Manager v2
It took us more than 10 years to come with CorText Manager version 2 as it is now! Behind the scenes CorText Manager begun with a first version in 2009. More than thirty contributors has worked directly or indirectly on the two versions, year after year. All the ideas, inspirations, all this accumulation of pieces […]
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RISIS Training: Thematic and spatial analysis of technologies using CorText Manager and RISIS patent database
One of the best CorText Manager training courses was organized and offered by the RISIS project. Here is the program of this training which lasted 3 days: Monday 08/11/21 14h-16h30: Session 1 Session 1a: Introduction on patent analysis (60’) Introductory lecture session • Welcoming introduction (Philippe Larédo) 5’ • Type of patents documents (Antoine Schoen) […]
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Early 2021 CorText Manager training sessions
CorText organized a series of training workshops on CorText Manager and its methods in January 2021! These workshops were imagined as a staircase with three successive steps : Session 1: Introduction Session 2: Method comparisons Session 3: Research questions and work on user’s corpus For these sessions, the subject chosen for the demonstrations and exercises […]
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Seminar and workshop during the Summer School of PPGCI IBICT UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro – 03/2020
In March 2020, the LabEx SITES post-doctoral researcher, Ale Abdo, traveled to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to organize two trainings on textual analysis and on a new method he developed and integrated at the CorText Infrastructure, as well as to participate in discussions on open and citizen science in Brazil, including the discussion […]
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A CorText Manager distance training session in the framework of the nanocellulose project – Grenoble, June 2020
For complementing the RISIS access requested (to Leiden publications DB and RISIS patent DB) by the GAEL laboratory (UMR INRAE, CNRS, UGA, INPG), in the framework of a research project on nanocellulose, the CorText team has provided , in June and July 2020, an advanced training on the use of CorText. After setting up of […]
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