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
Workshops
2024
Buccio, Emanuele Di; Neresini, Federico
Research and Teaching Public Communication of Science and Technology on Digital Data Workshop
2024: 20th conference on Information and Research science Connecting to Digital and Library science 2024, ISSN: 1613-0073.
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author = {Emanuele Di Buccio and Federico Neresini},
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year = {2024},
date = {2024-02-22},
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abstract = {In recent decades, there has been a growing interest among Social Science researchers in computational approaches; Computational Social Science and Digital Sociology are examples of these research directions. An interdisciplinary research field that can be framed within Social Science is Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST), which examines how science and technology can affect contemporary society and how society can affect science and technology. The digitization of traditional media and the proliferation of other information channels, such as Social Media, provide new opportunities for PCST.
This paper discusses the issues that need to be addressed to support PCST scholars, possible solutions to address them, and the integration of these solutions into a single platform that is being used to support research and teaching. Concerning teaching, the paper presents an example of how the platform can be used in the context of a university course.},
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This paper discusses the issues that need to be addressed to support PCST scholars, possible solutions to address them, and the integration of these solutions into a single platform that is being used to support research and teaching. Concerning teaching, the paper presents an example of how the platform can be used in the context of a university course.
Journal Articles
2023
Andro, Mathieu; Réault, Mickaël
Veille collaborative : la plateforme WordPress Journal Article
In: I2D - Information, données & documents, vol. 2023, iss. 2, pp. 120-136, 2023, ISSN: 2428-2111.
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title = {Veille collaborative : la plateforme WordPress},
author = {Mathieu Andro and Mickaël Réault},
url = {https://www.cairn.info/revue-i2d-information-donnees-et-documents-2023-2-page-120.htm },
doi = {/10.3917/i2d.232.0120 },
issn = {2428-2111},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-12-08},
journal = {I2D - Information, données & documents},
volume = {2023},
issue = {2},
pages = {120-136},
abstract = {Dans les organisations, les veilles sont encore souvent diffusées en silos informationnels, via des newsletters adressées par courriels. À la faveur du confinement sanitaire et afin d’initier une veille plus partagée, ouverte et collaborative, une plateforme de diffusion automatisée des veilles, depuis divers outils de surveillance tels que InoReader, KB Crawl et Sindup, a été expérimentée de manière agile avec le logiciel libre WordPress.
Accessible sur smartphone, cette plateforme propose des fonctionnalités collaboratives, sémantiques, de recherche et de capitalisation des contenus, et des statistiques détaillées de consultation. Après avoir été expérimentée par une trentaine de veilleurs dans 17 entités différentes, elle a été hébergée, consolidée, mise en forme et sécurisée avec l’aide de l’éditeur de technologies de veille Sindup.
Ce modèle de plateforme construit avec WordPress est entièrement reproductible pour un très faible coût. Il pourrait permettre aux veilleurs de rendre plus efficiente la diffusion de leurs veilles et aux éditeurs de plateformes de proposer des offres moins onéreuses, plus centrées sur leur cœur de métier qui reste la mise en surveillance des sources. Il pourrait aussi permettre aux éditeurs de s’adresser à un marché plus large de PME, de TPE et d’associations.
Faisant suite à un précédent article à vocation concrète et professionnelle, le présent article résulte d’une analyse plus conceptuelle de cette expérimentation originale.},
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Accessible sur smartphone, cette plateforme propose des fonctionnalités collaboratives, sémantiques, de recherche et de capitalisation des contenus, et des statistiques détaillées de consultation. Après avoir été expérimentée par une trentaine de veilleurs dans 17 entités différentes, elle a été hébergée, consolidée, mise en forme et sécurisée avec l’aide de l’éditeur de technologies de veille Sindup.
Ce modèle de plateforme construit avec WordPress est entièrement reproductible pour un très faible coût. Il pourrait permettre aux veilleurs de rendre plus efficiente la diffusion de leurs veilles et aux éditeurs de plateformes de proposer des offres moins onéreuses, plus centrées sur leur cœur de métier qui reste la mise en surveillance des sources. Il pourrait aussi permettre aux éditeurs de s’adresser à un marché plus large de PME, de TPE et d’associations.
Faisant suite à un précédent article à vocation concrète et professionnelle, le présent article résulte d’une analyse plus conceptuelle de cette expérimentation originale.
Rikap, Cecilia
Intellectual monopolies as a new pattern of innovation and technological regime Journal Article
In: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2023.
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title = {Intellectual monopolies as a new pattern of innovation and technological regime},
author = {Cecilia Rikap},
url = {https://academic.oup.com/icc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/icc/dtad077/7462137},
doi = {/10.1093/icc/dtad077},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-12-07},
journal = {Industrial and Corporate Change},
abstract = {Building on Schumpeter Mark I and Mark II, I propose an additional pattern of innovation and technological regime called the intellectual monopoly (IM) to explain the co-habitation of large incumbent firms with high entry and exit rates and provide evidence for pharmaceuticals and information technologies. I associate the IM pattern and technological regime with corporate innovation systems and illustrate that patterns not only evolve after changes in technological regimes but also due to economic, political, and institutional transformations.},
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Demortain, David
Mistrust of the black box: the public auditing of private models in the chemicals regulatory space Journal Article
In: Science as Culture, 2023.
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title = {Mistrust of the black box: the public auditing of private models in the chemicals regulatory space},
author = {David Demortain},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2023.2286278},
doi = {10.1080/09505431.2023.2286278},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-12-06},
journal = {Science as Culture},
abstract = {Metrics foster trust in governing bodies, but their uncertainty can elicit an opposite sentiment of mistrust. In chemicals governance, most of the conversations concerning computational models revolve around their uncertainty, and the extent to which simulations of safe doses can be transposed in regulatory decisions. To understand the source of this mistrust in models, research in science and technology studies on policy modeling, particularly research that looks at models as an interface between science and policy, must be extended to consider the private production of predictions. Looking at the full set of actors involved in predictive regulatory knowledge – companies, regulatory agencies, modelers working with one or the other – and their concurrent articulations of uncertainty, it appears that regulators audit physiologically based pharmacokinetic models (PBPK, a key class of models used to compute safe chemical doses), because the chemical industry initially introduced them to challenge its methods of risk assessment. Regulators and their modelers established model auditing, to be able to negotiate the predictive claims of companies and their consultants. At the end of the day, neither companies nor regulators appear to dominate the production of predictive knowledge. It is the product of the shifting distribution of expertise in the regulatory space, and of the outcomes of the recurrent trials of credibility that this distribution enables.},
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Analysis of the scientific production that mentioned the use of CorText Manager
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10 years of CorText Manager v2
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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
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