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
Conferences
2022
Breucker, Philippe; Villard, Lionel
2022, (34ème séance du MetSem).
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title = {METSEM#34 : Logiciel CorText Manager – Extraction d’information et analyse socio-sémantique pour les sciences humaines et sociales},
author = {Philippe Breucker and Lionel Villard},
url = {https://metsem.hypotheses.org/1138
https://metsem.hypotheses.org/files/2022/09/metsem34.pdf},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-09-15},
abstract = {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 méthodologiques du traitement automatique de la langue, de l’analyse des réseaux sociaux, de la statistique, et plus récemment autour de la dimension géographique qui se cache dans ces données.
Un des points forts de Cortext Manager est de pouvoir traiter plusieurs dimensions d’analyse en les combinant dans le même espace. Cet aspect hétérogène permet par exemple d’associer le temps avec la dimension sociale, de l’analyse de texte avec la dimension sociale ou géographique. Cela permet d’appréhender l’émergence de domaines de recherche et d’innovation, d’étudier des controverses et “hot topics”, d’effectuer des cartographies socio-sémantiques des productions de la recherche (publications, brevets, projets), ainsi que d’analyser des contenus issus du web et des média-sociaux.
Cet atelier se propose de sensibiliser l’audience à certaines de ces méthodes tout en découvrant l’organisation et l’évolution de la production scientifique autour de la chloroquine et de l’hydroxychloroquine entre 2014 et 2020.},
note = {34ème séance du MetSem},
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Cette application web peut produire un grand nombre d’analyses différentes qui ont trait aux champs méthodologiques du traitement automatique de la langue, de l’analyse des réseaux sociaux, de la statistique, et plus récemment autour de la dimension géographique qui se cache dans ces données.
Un des points forts de Cortext Manager est de pouvoir traiter plusieurs dimensions d’analyse en les combinant dans le même espace. Cet aspect hétérogène permet par exemple d’associer le temps avec la dimension sociale, de l’analyse de texte avec la dimension sociale ou géographique. Cela permet d’appréhender l’émergence de domaines de recherche et d’innovation, d’étudier des controverses et “hot topics”, d’effectuer des cartographies socio-sémantiques des productions de la recherche (publications, brevets, projets), ainsi que d’analyser des contenus issus du web et des média-sociaux.
Cet atelier se propose de sensibiliser l’audience à certaines de ces méthodes tout en découvrant l’organisation et l’évolution de la production scientifique autour de la chloroquine et de l’hydroxychloroquine entre 2014 et 2020.
Dauphine-Morer, Anne-Lise; Boissy, Alain; Zenasni, Franck; Mambrini-Doudet, Muriel
Congress of the International Society of Applied Ethology, Ohrid, Macedonia, 2022.
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title = {Investigating intention in non-human animals: a need for a new theoretical and methodological framework},
author = {Anne-Lise Dauphine-Morer and Alain Boissy and Franck Zenasni and Muriel Mambrini-Doudet},
url = {https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03800278},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-09-02},
urldate = {2022-09-02},
booktitle = {Congress of the International Society of Applied Ethology},
issuetitle = {55},
address = {Ohrid, Macedonia},
abstract = {While intentions are commonly assessed in humans, this is not the case in non-human animals, which may limit the accuracy of the assessment of their welfare status, which depends, in particular, on whether their expectations are met. Our assumption is that the current approaches in ethology do not take into consideration the possibility that animals have intentions. Our objective is to find the way to evaluate animal intentions. Method: We have developed a two-steps method: i) a bibliometric investigation to identify and select key approaches to study intention within a team gathering ethologists, psychologists and epistemologists. ii) The key approaches identified were confronted to current practices in ethology through three one-day interdisciplinary workshops, gathering 21 researchers in ethology, psychology, law, philosophy, veterinary, learning sciences, management sciences and design. Each workshop had three stages: a disciplinary assessment, an interdisciplinary prospect and a collective design. Results: Step 1: In Scopus database from the 2016-2020, we extracted 89 000 papers with intention in title and keywords. Only 1% of them were explicitly dealing with intention in non-human animals. We analysed the co-occurrence of the authors’ keywords of this 1% papers, to specify the scientific approaches with the CorText Platform. We found 10 discrepant approaches: behavioural flexibility & social context; human-animal interaction & domestication; mirror neuron & language; flexibility & meaning; self-domestication & disease; comparative cognition & auditory; handedness & manipulation; brain evolution & cultural evolution; antiphony & duets and teaching & tradition. All are relative to what we know about human intention, none was specific of what could be non-human animal intention. Step 2: The 3 workshops were successful. Disciplinary assessment: all participants translated the ten approaches into relevant scientific concepts, method and questions in their own discipline. Interdisciplinary prospect: split in groups, participants co-elaborated a hypothesis to study animal intentions based on the combination of concepts, methods and questions gathered on 3 of 10 approaches. Here are three examples: H1. Intention is not directly accessible, but it can be expressed through behavioural adaptations in the relationship. H2. The study of the environment effects on interactions reveals intentions. H3. Interactions have different repercussions on the maintenance or emission or even the valence of the behaviour or intention. Collective design: 7 protocols to test the hypothesis were developed. We will present the overall outputs of the workshops and discuss the power of hypothesis and protocols to prevent anthropocentric approaches when studying animal intention.},
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Menon, Maya; Katz, Andrew; Paretti, Marie C.
A Thematic and Trend Analysis of Engineering Education for Sustainable Development Conference
ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition ASEE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2022.
@conference{Menon2022,
title = {A Thematic and Trend Analysis of Engineering Education for Sustainable Development},
author = {Maya Menon and Andrew Katz and Marie C. Paretti},
url = {https://peer.asee.org/40876},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-08-23},
publisher = {ASEE},
address = {Minneapolis, Minnesota},
organization = {ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition},
abstract = {There is a push for integrating concepts of sustainability and sustainable development in engineering education. The U.S. National Society of Professional Engineers’ Code of Ethics expects engineers “to adhere to the principles of sustainable development in order to protect the environment for future generations”. This push has resulted in significant research and efforts to reform engineering curricula to focus on sustainable development, or the “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” in the 1987 Brundtland Commission’s report. Such research and reform efforts can manifest in several forms and contexts, and it can be difficult to obtain a broader picture of how engineering education as a whole is progressing in this area. To help provide a view of that picture, this paper strives to understand the recent trends in engineering education research for sustainable development by analyzing the relationships between the increasingly popular topics of sustainability and sustainable development and how they have evolved over the past two decades.
Using text network analysis, a natural language processing technique, this study explores the thematic structure of scholarly publications that address the integration of sustainability and/or sustainable development in engineering courses, across curricula and across disciplines. In particular, we extract the thematic structure of over 1,500 abstracts of conference proceedings published in the American Society of Engineering Education related to this issue. With the aid of co-occurrence network maps and epoch trend analysis, we identify the major topics among these engineering education studies. Analyses of these trends indicate that the topics of sustainability and sustainable development have been consistently addressed primarily in civil engineering education research for the past two decades. This implies that these topics have not appeared in many other disciplinary areas of research. In addition, renewable energy is one of the more prevalent topics within the area of engineering education for sustainable development. We report our detailed results by providing insights on how these topics have evolved over time, and the semantic similarities between topics that have similar trending patterns.},
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Using text network analysis, a natural language processing technique, this study explores the thematic structure of scholarly publications that address the integration of sustainability and/or sustainable development in engineering courses, across curricula and across disciplines. In particular, we extract the thematic structure of over 1,500 abstracts of conference proceedings published in the American Society of Engineering Education related to this issue. With the aid of co-occurrence network maps and epoch trend analysis, we identify the major topics among these engineering education studies. Analyses of these trends indicate that the topics of sustainability and sustainable development have been consistently addressed primarily in civil engineering education research for the past two decades. This implies that these topics have not appeared in many other disciplinary areas of research. In addition, renewable energy is one of the more prevalent topics within the area of engineering education for sustainable development. We report our detailed results by providing insights on how these topics have evolved over time, and the semantic similarities between topics that have similar trending patterns.
Bordignon, Frédérique; Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Chérifa
8è conférence Document Numérique et Société 2022, (hal-03700661).
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title = {Quelle place les rapports AERES et HCERES font-ils à la Science Ouverte ? Réponses par une analyse textométrique (2009-2021)},
author = {Frédérique Bordignon and Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri},
url = {https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03700661/},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-06-26},
urldate = {2022-06-26},
organization = {8è conférence Document Numérique et Société},
abstract = {Le présent travail propose d’identifier et de mesurer la place que revêtent toutes les formes d’ouverture de la science dans les rapports d’évaluation des entités de recherche produits par l’Agence pour l’Évaluation de la REcherche Scientifique (AERES) puis le Haut Conseil de l'Évaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur (HCERES), sur plus d’une décennie (2009-2021). Ce travail exploite un matériau et des métadonnées peu traitées et en livre par la même occasion le potentiel, les biais et les limites. Grâce à des outils linguistiques (CorTexT et TXM), nous sondons ce corpus avec l’objectif de représenter son contenu lexical et son évolution. Pour cela, le Thesaurus de la Science ouverte (INIST 2021) a constitué notre base de travail. Nous avons élaboré ensuite une typologie de 7 grandes thématiques qui nous permettent d’aborder l’ouverture en contexte, et en comparaison à d’autres centres/points d’intérêt des rapports d’évaluation : Science Ouverte, Production scientifique, Bibliométrie, Données, Intégrité/éthique, Propriété Intellectuelle, Publiants. En se focalisant précisément sur les rapports qui mentionnent la Science Ouverte et grâce à l’ensemble de nos requêtes pour TXM qui alimentent ce thème, il est possible de révéler en quels termes elle est évoquée. Par ce biais, nous prenons à témoins les écrits évaluatifs des rapports pour mieux comprendre comment les évaluateurs mobilisent et situent les différentes “branches” de la Science Ouverte. Nous montrons alors très clairement que dès l'époque de l'AERES, les évaluateurs s’intéressent en tout premier lieu à l’ouverture de la science par les activités de vulgarisation et médiation scientifique. L’analyse menée ici montre que la transition de l’AERES vers HCERES a produit un recul vis à vis de cette dynamique. La réduction drastique du nombre de pages des rapports a rejailli sur le travail des évaluateurs qui ont fait des arbitrages allant dans le sens d’un “réductionnisme” vers une forme conventionnelle de l’évaluation, qui n’a donc pas été favorable à la qualification de la question de l’ouverture de la science. Pour résumer, nous pouvons énoncer que les rapports de l’AERES plus longs, présentaient le potentiel d’éclairer la décision politique, sans pour autant conduire à un renouvellement des critères d’évaluation. Ceux de l’HCERES, plus courts, échouent à la fois à la décrire et à la prescrire en restant à distance des engagements pris au niveau national et européen.},
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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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