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
Book Chapters
2021
The Emergence of Technoscientific Fields and the New Political Sociology of Science Book Chapter
In: Kastenhofer, Karen; Molyneux-Hodgson, Susan (Ed.): Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences, vol. 31, pp. 85–106, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2021, ISBN: 978-3-030-61728-8.
In: The State of Environmental Migration 2020 A review of 2019, pp. 39-59, Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2021.
Proceedings Articles
2021
Detecção de inovações tecnológicas na evolução da informática educacional no Brasil Proceedings Article
In: 2021: Anais do XXXII Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação, pp. 157-167, Sociedade Brasileira de Computação Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500 | Setor 4 | Prédio 43.412 | Sala 219 | Bairro Agronomia Caixa Postal 15012 | CEP 91501-970 Porto Alegre - RS, 2021.
Mapping AI Issues in Media Through NLP Methods Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Humanities Research 2021, pp. 77-91, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2021.
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