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
Masters Theses
2022
Larsen, Alberte Bau
Mapping out Nature National Park Gribskov - Controversies of nature, culture and realities. Masters Thesis
Aalborg Universitet, 2022.
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author = {Alberte Bau Larsen},
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year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-18},
school = {Aalborg Universitet},
abstract = {This thesis researches public enactments of nature-cultures within the case of the new Nature National Park Gribskov. It aims at mapping out controversies that rise when an area of the Gribskov forest will change its management practices from production forest to a place with rewilding, where large herbivores and untouched forest will be the approach to management, in order to increase biodiversity in the area.
To create a map of the controversies, I analyse how publics gather around issues, and enacts different realities of purposes and usages of nature, which causes different realities to clash. Through an extensive set of data on the controversy, collected from Facebook, public hearings and interview with the local public, I identify six central objects of dispute, namely; large herbivores, fences, outdoor life, biodiversity, climate and expertise. These objects are fluid in their actions in different networks, causing clashes between practices of each object alone, as well as among the objects. An underlying factor of clashes within a majority of the objects are the enactments of wild nature, which leads to disputes over the design of the Nature National Park Gribskov.},
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To create a map of the controversies, I analyse how publics gather around issues, and enacts different realities of purposes and usages of nature, which causes different realities to clash. Through an extensive set of data on the controversy, collected from Facebook, public hearings and interview with the local public, I identify six central objects of dispute, namely; large herbivores, fences, outdoor life, biodiversity, climate and expertise. These objects are fluid in their actions in different networks, causing clashes between practices of each object alone, as well as among the objects. An underlying factor of clashes within a majority of the objects are the enactments of wild nature, which leads to disputes over the design of the Nature National Park Gribskov.
Online
2022
Andro, Mathieu; Réault, Mickaël
2022, visited: 01.12.2022, (hal-03895971 , version 1).
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title = {Une expérimentation de plateforme de diffusion automatisée et collaborative des veilles avec le logiciel libre WordPress},
author = {Mathieu Andro and Mickaël Réault},
url = {https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03895971/
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03895971/document},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-12-01},
urldate = {2022-12-01},
abstract = {Dans les organisations, les veilles sont encore souvent diffusées en silos informationnels via des newsletters adressées par courriels. A 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 comme InoReader, KB Crawl et Sindup a été expérimentée de manière agile avec le logiciel libre WordPress. Elle est accessible sur smartphone, elle propose des fonctionnalités collaboratives, sémantiques, de recherche et de capitalisation des contenus, et des statistiques détaillées de consultation. Elle a été expérimentée par une vingtaine de veilleurs d’une dizaine de services différents. La plateforme a ensuite 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. },
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Koronska, Kamila; Lompe, Maria; Rogers, Richard
(DMI), The Digital Methods Initiative (Ed.): 2022, visited: 28.09.2022.
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title = {Mapping controversial narratives related to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine in Polish-language social media Facilitators},
author = {Kamila Koronska and Maria Lompe and Richard Rogers},
editor = {The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI)},
url = {https://digitalmethods.net/Dmi/RussoUkrainianWarPolishSocialMedia2022},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-09-28},
urldate = {2022-09-28},
abstract = {According to tallies by the UNHCR at the end of June 2022, since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine more than 5.2 million refugees have fled Ukraine and relocated across Europe, with over a million residing in neighbouring Poland (2022). Poland has played an important role in facilitating rescue corridors for Ukrainians, at one point welcoming almost half of the total number of refugees. At the onset of the war, Polish media started to report an alarming rise in controversial narratives shared on social media platforms concerning Ukranians (Wirtualne Media, Onet.pl, RMF24, Konkret24).
Among these are calls for reducing aid to the Ukrainian refugees, evoking historical, economic or other arguments that seek to undermine public sentiment and eagerness to help. The stakes can be high. There have been extreme situations that threaten the most vulnerable such as when there was an orchestrated buy out of necessities and queues at gas stations.
Since the war in Ukraine started, over 2 million Ukrainian refugees have fled to Poland seeking shelter. Journalists have reported a rise in controversial narratives found online concerning the motives of Ukrainian refugees as well as reactions to them. Our objective is to map these narratives and attempt to find out actors who spread them in the Polish social media sphere.},
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Among these are calls for reducing aid to the Ukrainian refugees, evoking historical, economic or other arguments that seek to undermine public sentiment and eagerness to help. The stakes can be high. There have been extreme situations that threaten the most vulnerable such as when there was an orchestrated buy out of necessities and queues at gas stations.
Since the war in Ukraine started, over 2 million Ukrainian refugees have fled to Poland seeking shelter. Journalists have reported a rise in controversial narratives found online concerning the motives of Ukrainian refugees as well as reactions to them. Our objective is to map these narratives and attempt to find out actors who spread them in the Polish social media sphere.
Kamara, Abdourahmane Tintou; Vignes, Annick; Polleau, Auriane; Deschamps, Aurore; Caputo, Chiara; Prieur, Christophe; Egher, Claudia; Cubizolles, Dylan; Armanet, Enguerrand; Lucifora, Federico; Laglil, Hajar; Miotto, Marilù; Delivre, Raphael; Tadiello, Sébastien; Tuncer, Sila; Persico, Simone; Billard, Tom; Chabaux, Valentin; Tahiri, Zakaria
Crawling the italian Green Pass debate on Twitter Online
(DMI), The Digital Methods Initiative (Ed.): 2022, visited: 18.02.2022.
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title = {Crawling the italian Green Pass debate on Twitter},
author = {Abdourahmane Tintou Kamara and Annick Vignes and Auriane Polleau and Aurore Deschamps and Chiara Caputo and Christophe Prieur and Claudia Egher and Dylan Cubizolles and Enguerrand Armanet and Federico Lucifora and Hajar Laglil and Marilù Miotto and Raphael Delivre and Sébastien Tadiello and Sila Tuncer and Simone Persico and Tom Billard and Valentin Chabaux and Zakaria Tahiri},
editor = {The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI)},
url = {https://digitalmethods.net/Dmi/CrawlingItalianGreenPassDebate},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-02-18},
urldate = {2022-02-18},
abstract = {The last Censis report about the social situation in Italy highlighted that the number of people adhering to irrational thoughts is increasing and that this could be related to the pandemic situation. The term irrational describe the situation where people become victim of cognitive biases that could led them to wrong interpretations and conduct to conspiracy theories.
Social Networks are nowadays platforms that lot of users use to directly find informations about social interest topics and doing so they can be influenced by the contents that other people shares.
Twitter is a space where common people, VIPs, politics and journalists debate about actuality topics and sometime can become an highly polarizing environment. In Italy one of the most divisive topics since his institution in the middle of July has been the covid-19 certificate (commonly known as “green pass”).
The purpose of the project is to explore and classify the most polarizing contents surrounding this debate, particularly focusing on the external sources of informations shared into the platform.
A list of source domains will be crawled to map the network, in order to find links that can be used as sign of homophily between sources. The position into the debate will be evaluated according to proximity to known sources of information, previously labelled as “mainstream” or “not mainstream” with the aim of revealing the possible presence of platforms related to conspiracies in the sources far from mainstream media.},
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Social Networks are nowadays platforms that lot of users use to directly find informations about social interest topics and doing so they can be influenced by the contents that other people shares.
Twitter is a space where common people, VIPs, politics and journalists debate about actuality topics and sometime can become an highly polarizing environment. In Italy one of the most divisive topics since his institution in the middle of July has been the covid-19 certificate (commonly known as “green pass”).
The purpose of the project is to explore and classify the most polarizing contents surrounding this debate, particularly focusing on the external sources of informations shared into the platform.
A list of source domains will be crawled to map the network, in order to find links that can be used as sign of homophily between sources. The position into the debate will be evaluated according to proximity to known sources of information, previously labelled as “mainstream” or “not mainstream” with the aim of revealing the possible presence of platforms related to conspiracies in the sources far from mainstream media.
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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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