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
Proceedings Articles
2022
Saldanha, Gustavo; Castro, Paulo César; Pimenta, Ricardo M.
Ciência da Informação: Sociedade, crítica e inovação Proceedings Article
In: Ciência da Informação : Sociedade, crítica e inovação, pp. 372, Rio de Janeiro, 2022, ISBN: 978-65-89167-54-9.
@inproceedings{Saldanha2022,
title = {Ciência da Informação: Sociedade, crítica e inovação},
author = {Gustavo Saldanha and Paulo César Castro and Ricardo M. Pimenta},
url = {https://ridi.ibict.br/},
isbn = {978-65-89167-54-9},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
booktitle = {Ciência da Informação : Sociedade, crítica e inovação},
pages = {372},
address = {Rio de Janeiro},
institution = {IBICT, Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia},
abstract = {A obra aqui tecida e apresentada coloca em diálogo diferentes pontos de vista de pesquisadores que se debruçam sobre os fenômenos informacionais da cena contemporânea sob o espelho do histórico. Esta historicidade do jubileu da Ciência da Informação em América Latina e Caribe é demonstrada nas rendas da palavra a partir dos passos de cada proposta textual, de cada nome manifesto em uma citação, de cada referência utilizada. As autorias que aqui estão, parte da atual configuração do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação, erigido sobre o acordo de cooperação entre o IBICT e a UFRJ, representam humildemente uma totalidade cinquentenária.},
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}
Masters Theses
2022
Kourri, Demetra
A Tunnel of Many Worlds: Unfolding the Blanka Controversy Masters Thesis
University of Manchester, 2022.
@mastersthesis{Kourri2022,
title = {A Tunnel of Many Worlds: Unfolding the Blanka Controversy},
author = {Demetra Kourri},
url = {https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/274926081/FULL_TEXT.PDF},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-07-31},
urldate = {2022-07-31},
school = {University of Manchester},
abstract = {This research offers new theoretical and methodological approaches to studying infrastructures in the making, through a pragmatist approach and by mobilising ANT methodology. This making process entails infrastructures as complex networks of things and people and as systems that co-exist and co-evolve with other forms of urban mobility. These systems are not only being built ‘in space’, but as ‘space making’ mechanisms have the potential to shift relations, priorities, and the future of cities. While scholars recognise infrastructures as relational, processual, and constituents of larger heterogeneous networks of actors, the very nature of the space that is produced through their making is yet to be expressed explicitly and/or on multiple scales. More specifically, we are yet to thoroughly theorise how through their conceptualisation and construction, infrastructures extend beyond themselves to shift the very nature of cities that contain them.
This thesis maps the controversy of the Blanka tunnel in Prague, where infrastructure becomes a lens through which we 'read' the city and its constant changes. This helps us explain how a city like Prague negotiates to maintain its historic and cultural character as a 'modern' metropolis. The pragmatic approach and ANT methodology do not see the tunnel as a stable artefact that is influenced purely by political decision-making, financial constraints or technical challenges. We refrain from using predefined explanatory frameworks or panoramic views and employ a series of ‘oligoptica’ (Latour and Hermant 1996) - narrow windows that allow us to see specific aspects of its making in detail.
We map the key actors and concerns of the controversy and see the network of the tunnel unfold, revealing various groups of human and non-human entities. Locating ourselves in specific places of practice, we witness how the tunnel is designed, managed, observed, controlled, discussed, and argued for, and we capture its making through as many voices and actions as possible. We follow the many planning and technical reports, road design manuals, bills of quantities, guidelines and standards, and technical drawings, allowing us to trace how the design and technology of the tunnel inform the re-making of Prague. By documenting the implementation of adopted technical design solutions that respond to the key issues of the controversy, we analyse how the discursive challenges of the project are translated onto its technical/material level and vice versa.
The thesis contributes to conceptual and methodological discussions on the ‘infrastructuring’ of cities, drawing on mobilities, the material turn, STS and ANT. By tracing a live infrastructural project in the making the thesis shows that the making of Blanka is an ‘infrastructuring’ of Prague. This means that the procedures and actions involving its planning and implementation are not just happening in space and time but produce space and time as they transform and question the very nature of the city.},
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This thesis maps the controversy of the Blanka tunnel in Prague, where infrastructure becomes a lens through which we 'read' the city and its constant changes. This helps us explain how a city like Prague negotiates to maintain its historic and cultural character as a 'modern' metropolis. The pragmatic approach and ANT methodology do not see the tunnel as a stable artefact that is influenced purely by political decision-making, financial constraints or technical challenges. We refrain from using predefined explanatory frameworks or panoramic views and employ a series of ‘oligoptica’ (Latour and Hermant 1996) - narrow windows that allow us to see specific aspects of its making in detail.
We map the key actors and concerns of the controversy and see the network of the tunnel unfold, revealing various groups of human and non-human entities. Locating ourselves in specific places of practice, we witness how the tunnel is designed, managed, observed, controlled, discussed, and argued for, and we capture its making through as many voices and actions as possible. We follow the many planning and technical reports, road design manuals, bills of quantities, guidelines and standards, and technical drawings, allowing us to trace how the design and technology of the tunnel inform the re-making of Prague. By documenting the implementation of adopted technical design solutions that respond to the key issues of the controversy, we analyse how the discursive challenges of the project are translated onto its technical/material level and vice versa.
The thesis contributes to conceptual and methodological discussions on the ‘infrastructuring’ of cities, drawing on mobilities, the material turn, STS and ANT. By tracing a live infrastructural project in the making the thesis shows that the making of Blanka is an ‘infrastructuring’ of Prague. This means that the procedures and actions involving its planning and implementation are not just happening in space and time but produce space and time as they transform and question the very nature of the city.
Jørgensen, Kari
Børns trivsel - de voksnes ansvar Masters Thesis
Aalborg Universitets, 2022.
@mastersthesis{Jørgensen2022,
title = {Børns trivsel - de voksnes ansvar},
author = {Kari Jørgensen},
url = {https://projekter.aau.dk/projekter/files/472529249/MDO_masteropgave_250522.pdf
https://projekter.aau.dk/projekter/da/studentthesis/boerns-trivsel--de-voksnes-ansvar(749840ef-dcfe-4d27-9f19-5574635a4853).html},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-05-25},
urldate = {2022-05-25},
school = {Aalborg Universitets},
abstract = {Purpose
This study is based on the 117 free text responses from 7th Grade students' identification of ‘ambiance’ as essential for their well-being at Helsingør School. My interest in investigating their well-being stems from the very small fluctuations seen in the results of the National Well-being Survey. This led to a study using Natural Language Processing (NLP), unsupervised text analysis, performed on essays written by the students, where ‘ambiance’ was designated as a focus area from a student perspective. In my master’s project and on this background, I have investigated whether the assumption that ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ have an impact on the students' well-being at Helsingør School is simply a school leader's assumption, or if there is an experience among staff and managers at the school that this is significant. My contribution to the existing (Danish) research in the field is partly the chosen method in relation to data from the employees (free texts), partly a suggested definition and impact of the concepts ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ when seen in a school context.
Method
With the wish to give the teachers and educators the opportunity to contribute their experience and position to the meaning of ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ in relation to student well-being, the choice of method fell on datafication of the free texts written by the staff about these concepts using NLP, unsupervised text analysis. This method has not been used before, offering teachers and educators the possibility to write their opinion, in their own words. This method was also used in connection with the study of the students' well-being, a result on which this dissertation is based.
Focus group interview was chosen as a method in relation to uncovering the managers’ positions to these concepts, as well as how the managers’ roles are in relation to these. The focus group interview uncovered a number of themes in relation to ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ that the managers are interested in. School researcher Louise Klinge was interviewed in an attempt to get closer to the description of an evocative classroom, a definition of the concepts of ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ and an answer to the question: What is the definition of ‘basic ambiance’?
Results/Conclusions
In the focus group interview, the managers reflected on their own practice and shed light on behaviors and practices, that they previously were not aware of. The focus group interview took on 4 the character of action research in practice, where reflection on one's own practice as well as budding insights in relation to significant actions with a view to students' well-being were articulated and described. The research indicates that it is the adult's responsibility to create a constructive and learning-promoting atmosphere in the classroom or in the community around the students.
Limitation
The biggest limitation has been a poor response rate on the free text survey as I only managed to get 16 free texts from potentially more than 200 teachers and educators regarding their position on and experience with ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ as significant factors of the students’ well-being at Helsingør School. These free texts were intended to be the primary data source, but too few responded. Why so few responded despite postponing the deadline three times and sending many reminders to write a free text is identified as an interesting subject for further investigation.
Perspectives
There are several interesting perspectives that it will make sense to examine further. First and foremost, it will make sense to challenge the existing social construction in relation to what the primary task of teachers and educators is. They have not been heard in a way in which they could unreservedly describe their experiences and attitudes in relation to the significance of ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ for the well-being of students. Perhaps it will be possible to involve these professional groups in another future design e.g., a data sprint. Another phenomenon that is worth investigating further is the attitude towards and communication of the National Well-being Survey. Do we believe in the data collected? Do we use data for the benefit of the students' well-being, or is it just considered as 'completed' of another work assignment?},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
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}
This study is based on the 117 free text responses from 7th Grade students' identification of ‘ambiance’ as essential for their well-being at Helsingør School. My interest in investigating their well-being stems from the very small fluctuations seen in the results of the National Well-being Survey. This led to a study using Natural Language Processing (NLP), unsupervised text analysis, performed on essays written by the students, where ‘ambiance’ was designated as a focus area from a student perspective. In my master’s project and on this background, I have investigated whether the assumption that ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ have an impact on the students' well-being at Helsingør School is simply a school leader's assumption, or if there is an experience among staff and managers at the school that this is significant. My contribution to the existing (Danish) research in the field is partly the chosen method in relation to data from the employees (free texts), partly a suggested definition and impact of the concepts ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ when seen in a school context.
Method
With the wish to give the teachers and educators the opportunity to contribute their experience and position to the meaning of ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ in relation to student well-being, the choice of method fell on datafication of the free texts written by the staff about these concepts using NLP, unsupervised text analysis. This method has not been used before, offering teachers and educators the possibility to write their opinion, in their own words. This method was also used in connection with the study of the students' well-being, a result on which this dissertation is based.
Focus group interview was chosen as a method in relation to uncovering the managers’ positions to these concepts, as well as how the managers’ roles are in relation to these. The focus group interview uncovered a number of themes in relation to ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ that the managers are interested in. School researcher Louise Klinge was interviewed in an attempt to get closer to the description of an evocative classroom, a definition of the concepts of ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ and an answer to the question: What is the definition of ‘basic ambiance’?
Results/Conclusions
In the focus group interview, the managers reflected on their own practice and shed light on behaviors and practices, that they previously were not aware of. The focus group interview took on 4 the character of action research in practice, where reflection on one's own practice as well as budding insights in relation to significant actions with a view to students' well-being were articulated and described. The research indicates that it is the adult's responsibility to create a constructive and learning-promoting atmosphere in the classroom or in the community around the students.
Limitation
The biggest limitation has been a poor response rate on the free text survey as I only managed to get 16 free texts from potentially more than 200 teachers and educators regarding their position on and experience with ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ as significant factors of the students’ well-being at Helsingør School. These free texts were intended to be the primary data source, but too few responded. Why so few responded despite postponing the deadline three times and sending many reminders to write a free text is identified as an interesting subject for further investigation.
Perspectives
There are several interesting perspectives that it will make sense to examine further. First and foremost, it will make sense to challenge the existing social construction in relation to what the primary task of teachers and educators is. They have not been heard in a way in which they could unreservedly describe their experiences and attitudes in relation to the significance of ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ for the well-being of students. Perhaps it will be possible to involve these professional groups in another future design e.g., a data sprint. Another phenomenon that is worth investigating further is the attitude towards and communication of the National Well-being Survey. Do we believe in the data collected? Do we use data for the benefit of the students' well-being, or is it just considered as 'completed' of another work assignment?
Engell, Jeppe
Transfer, aktion og data! Masters Thesis
Aalborg Universitet, 2022.
@mastersthesis{Engell2022,
title = {Transfer, aktion og data!},
author = {Jeppe Engell},
url = {https://projekter.aau.dk/projekter/da/studentthesis/transfer-aktion-og-data(d4e54e2e-f2da-444a-98e8-a8eaa8024322).html
https://projekter.aau.dk/projekter/files/472529472/master_opgave_mdo_final_version.pdf},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-05-25},
school = {Aalborg Universitet},
abstract = {In HK, academy subjects, diploma subjects, master's subjects are completed every year, students write subject tests and trainees write assignments. In the assignments, based on well-considered problem formulations, important knowledge and data for HK are produced, concluded and reflected on. That knowledge is not collected, analyzed and converted into new workflows and this means that continuing education is not followed up on and thus can only be considered as personal development. The real issues that HK has in many areas are not combined with the employees who take subjects as continuing education.
New inputs from conferences, networks and journalism are not discussed and converted into issues that can be investigated in subjects at several levels. There is no requirement that knowledge and data that the employees produce be disseminated. The above is not unique to HK, as is the case in the vast majority of workplaces in Denmark. In fact, research shows that up to 85 percent of learning efforts are wasted. But if, on the other hand, students could be taught to become better at acting, the picture would look completely different. To act, based on what one has learned, is called 'Transfer'. "
Therefore, under this task seeks: How can HK through data workshops with employees examine its approach to continuing education and adjust it so that there is a transfer of knowledge from the tasks from the employees to the company and the experience of follow-up is increased?
The 5 data workshops made in this assignment on transfer of knowledge from education to workplaces, clearly show that it is possible to achieve practical knowledge sharing and competence development around the subject and thus come up with a new practice around transfer that will also increase the experience of follow-up among employees.
Data workshops show that advanced technology to produce data, if used and presented in the right way, can create a premise and the driver that creates the understanding of the necessity of change in practice.
It is not enough just to see the necessity of the change anymore, it must also make sense in relation to own and organizational values. It showed the data workshops in full how challenged HK is when employees experience that doubts arise about HK’s values and what happens when they are clear.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {mastersthesis}
}
New inputs from conferences, networks and journalism are not discussed and converted into issues that can be investigated in subjects at several levels. There is no requirement that knowledge and data that the employees produce be disseminated. The above is not unique to HK, as is the case in the vast majority of workplaces in Denmark. In fact, research shows that up to 85 percent of learning efforts are wasted. But if, on the other hand, students could be taught to become better at acting, the picture would look completely different. To act, based on what one has learned, is called 'Transfer'. "
Therefore, under this task seeks: How can HK through data workshops with employees examine its approach to continuing education and adjust it so that there is a transfer of knowledge from the tasks from the employees to the company and the experience of follow-up is increased?
The 5 data workshops made in this assignment on transfer of knowledge from education to workplaces, clearly show that it is possible to achieve practical knowledge sharing and competence development around the subject and thus come up with a new practice around transfer that will also increase the experience of follow-up among employees.
Data workshops show that advanced technology to produce data, if used and presented in the right way, can create a premise and the driver that creates the understanding of the necessity of change in practice.
It is not enough just to see the necessity of the change anymore, it must also make sense in relation to own and organizational values. It showed the data workshops in full how challenged HK is when employees experience that doubts arise about HK’s values and what happens when they are clear.
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Long trends on twitter: intertemporal clusters combining hashtags and terms on Scientometrics, Altmetrics, Bibliometrics and Science Of Science
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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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