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
Journal Articles
2020
Louvel, Séverine
What’s in a name? The three genealogies of the social insocial epigenetics Journal Article
In: Social Science Information, 2020.
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title = {What’s in a name? The three genealogies of the social insocial epigenetics},
author = {Séverine Louvel},
editor = {SAGE Publications},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/0539018419897001},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-22},
urldate = {2020-01-22},
journal = {Social Science Information},
abstract = {Social epigenetics – the study of the epigenetic mechanisms through which social environments become biologically embodied – epitomizes recent claims that the boundaries between the natural and the social sciences should be reduced. Relying on a bibliometric study and on a qualitative analysis of publications in social epigenetics, this paper investigates how this research area defines and operationalizes the social dimensions that may have an impact on health status and disease risk. The paper also addresses how the social sciences engage with social epigenetics. First, the paper traces social epigenetics back to five epistemic backgrounds – two in animal research (on social defeat and early-life adversity) and three in human studies (on trauma, early-life nutrition and social adversity over the life-course). Second, it outlines the quest for epigenetic markers of social environments, and the associated expectations and controversies. Third, it analyses the three modes of engagement of the social sciences with human studies in social epigenetics: rejection (social epigenetics trapped in the quest for a ‘social brain’); warning and call for responsibility (social epigenetics has shifted from socioeconomic contexts to individual behaviors); and support and active contribution (social epigenetics may strengthen social studies of health). This paper argues that recent developments in social epigenetics could strengthen this third mode of engagement and expand the scope of interdisciplinary collaboration between the natural and the social sciences.},
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Valese, Maria; Natta, Herbert
Digital Urban Narratives: The Images of the City in the Age of Big Data Journal Article
In: in-bo, vol. 11, no. 15, 2020, ISSN: 2036-1602.
@article{Valese2020,
title = {Digital Urban Narratives: The Images of the City in the Age of Big Data},
author = {Maria Valese and Herbert Natta},
url = {https://in-bo.unibo.it/article/view/10532/11698},
doi = {http://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/10532},
issn = {2036-1602},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
journal = {in-bo},
volume = {11},
number = {15},
abstract = {The massive presence and use of digital technologies in urban areas generate a growing amount of data. This new knowledge, from one side, assigns to the city the new posthuman image of a smart system; from the other side, the polyphony of data-sources interferes with the narrative structure of the city, increasing its complexity and multiplying both the possibilities of its explorations as the management and design of its futures.
In fact, the integration of digital tools for the collection, analysis and visualization of data enables the simulation of possible transformation scenarios. But how this system of fluctuating parameters relates to the physical space of the city? How these multiple virtual possibilities change the urban narrative?
The intersection between digital mediation and physical urban space is the object of this paper, that moves from an interdisciplinary perspective, between narratology and urban design. We analyzed three case studies (Saint Petersburg, Bologna, Barcelona), representative of how the use of digital technologies transforms the representation of the city.
In Saint Petersburg we have reshaped the (semantic) landscape of the city through Instagram data; in Bologna we have followed the (digital) traces of the temporary community of students, investigating the interaction and interference between the ‘univercity’ and the physical urban environment; in Barcelona we have analyzed an urban fragment (the street of La Rambla), considering it as a microcosmos of data.},
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In fact, the integration of digital tools for the collection, analysis and visualization of data enables the simulation of possible transformation scenarios. But how this system of fluctuating parameters relates to the physical space of the city? How these multiple virtual possibilities change the urban narrative?
The intersection between digital mediation and physical urban space is the object of this paper, that moves from an interdisciplinary perspective, between narratology and urban design. We analyzed three case studies (Saint Petersburg, Bologna, Barcelona), representative of how the use of digital technologies transforms the representation of the city.
In Saint Petersburg we have reshaped the (semantic) landscape of the city through Instagram data; in Bologna we have followed the (digital) traces of the temporary community of students, investigating the interaction and interference between the ‘univercity’ and the physical urban environment; in Barcelona we have analyzed an urban fragment (the street of La Rambla), considering it as a microcosmos of data.
Books
2020
Louvel, Séverine
Routledge, 2020, ISBN: 9780429201295.
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title = {The policies and politics of interdisciplinary research: Nanomedicine in France and in the United States},
author = {Séverine Louvel},
url = {https://www.routledge.com/The-Policies-and-Politics-of-Interdisciplinary-Research-Nanomedicine-in/Louvel/p/book/9780367192433},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429201295},
isbn = {9780429201295},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-11-30},
urldate = {2020-11-30},
publisher = {Routledge},
abstract = {Interdisciplinary research centers are blooming in almost every university, and interdisciplinary research is expected to be a cure-all for the ills of academic science. Do disciplines still matter? To what extent are interdisciplinary problem-solving approaches driven by socioeconomic stakeholders and policymakers rather than by academics? And how is interdisciplinarity organized? Through an in-depth sociological study of the development of nanomedicine in France and in the United States – an area that combines nanotechnology and biomedical research – this book challenges two conventional views of interdisciplinary research and academic disciplines. First, disciplines do not merely form separate "siloes" which hinder the development of interdisciplinary research: rather, they are flexible entities whose evolution supports the long-term institutionalization of interdisciplinary science in French and US academia. Secondly, interdisciplinary research has no intrinsic virtue: its ability to respond to societal issues and advance knowledge depends on continued political support and long-term cooperation between stakeholders. Interdisciplinarity might also be threatened by oversold promises and struggles for recognition. A study of the many challenges facing the formation of creative and sustainable interdisciplinary scientific communities, The Policies and Politics of Interdisciplinary Research tackles vivid debates among academics and research managers and will appeal to scholars of sociology, science and technology studies and science policy.},
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Conferences
2020
Poibeau, Thierry; Ruiz, Pablo
Journée Sciences des données et Humanités numériques 2020.
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title = {Application de la résolution référentielle d’entités (entity linking) au domaine des Humanités numériques},
author = {Thierry Poibeau and Pablo Ruiz},
url = {https://prf1.org/docs/ruiz_pres_entlink_dh_scom.pdf},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-08-12},
organization = {Journée Sciences des données et Humanités numériques},
abstract = {Technologie de résolution référentielle des entités (entity linking)
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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
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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