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
PhD Theses
2019
Lerner, Celina
A mentalidade conservadora no Brasil: uma análise da interação política em redes sociais digitais PhD Thesis
PCHS/UFABC (Programa em Ciências Humanas e Sociais / Universidade Federal do ABC), 2019.
@phdthesis{Lerner2019,
title = {A mentalidade conservadora no Brasil: uma análise da interação política em redes sociais digitais},
author = {Celina Lerner},
url = {https://zenodo.org/record/3227644
https://bdtd.ibict.br/vufind/Record/UFBC_ffb4886564e028758ad091d0cecca37e},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.3227643},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-05-24},
urldate = {2019-05-24},
school = {PCHS/UFABC (Programa em Ciências Humanas e Sociais / Universidade Federal do ABC)},
abstract = {Expressões conservadoras despontaram com força nas redes sociais na Internet, nas ruas e nas urnas em diversas partes do globo nesta segunda década do século XXI. Com foco na manifestação brasileira do fenômeno, este trabalho analisa interações sobre política na rede social digital Facebook entre os anos de 2012 e 2018, período de grande turbulência na política brasileira que culmina com a ascensão do governo nacional mais conservador desde a redemocratização. O objetivo principal do trabalho é realizar uma descrição densa da mentalidade conservadora: identificar os recursos simbólicos mobilizados na construção de sentidos pela base social dessa atual corrente política. Utilizando uma abordagem abdutiva e métodos mistos para a análise de grandes quantidades de dados sociais digitais, resgatamos os princípios da Sociologia do Conhecimento ao enfocar o pensamento como um objeto social de caráter coletivo. Mapeamos uma grande rede de Páginas Públicas ligadas ao conservadorismo no Facebook e descobrimos que atores da esfera política, religiosa, militar, midiática e defensores da economia liberal articularam-se em torno da bandeira anti-esquerdista. Selecionamos páginas representativas das diferentes frentes dessa articulação e coletamos comentários realizados em suas postagens nesses seis anos, num total de mais de 900 mil comentários. Abordando textos como dados, aplicamos um modelo de representação de textos em redes de palavras. Pela análise dessas redes semânticas, identificamos os principais elementos e operadores da mentalidade conservadora latente nas interações no Facebook. A mentalidade que emergiu dos comentários tem Brasil, Deus e homem - com mulher e crianças - como elementos centrais. Esses elementos positivos estabelecem entre si relações de proteção e subserviência. Fora desse núcleo central, estão os elementos negativos - comunistas, petistas, esquerdistas, vagabundos, corruptos, feministas e gays -, entendidos como ameaças e com os quais a única relação possível é o combate por meio da força},
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Perruchas, François
Green Innovation: an empirical analysis of technology, skills and policy PhD Thesis
Universitat Politècnica de València. Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería del Diseño - Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria del Disseny , 2019.
@phdthesis{Perruchas2019,
title = {Green Innovation: an empirical analysis of technology, skills and policy},
author = {François Perruchas},
url = {https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/119965},
doi = {10.4995/Thesis/10251/119965},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-05-22},
urldate = {2019-05-22},
school = {Universitat Politècnica de València. Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería del Diseño - Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria del Disseny },
abstract = {The foreseeable outcomes of the transition towards low-carbon economies are multiple and affect in different ways policy-makers, world regions, firms and consumers. It has long been acknowledged that at the core of this transition stand environmental innovations which are developed to enhance the long-term sustainability of economic growth. The main pillars of this study are two. First, environmental challenges are different, and so are the responses that are needed to tackle them. The main consequence of this is that the current focus on green technology as a homogeneous block of undifferentiated entities is misleading. Second, the adaptation of production and distribution systems is ultimately carried through by human labour and analysing the transition to environmentally sustainable societies requires a thorough understanding of how work activities are designed, implemented and changed to accommodate new policy imperatives and/or new technological opportunities. Empirical evidence on either of these two pillars is scant or fragmented. The present thesis seeks to fill these gaps through the development of a database on green innovations, of a measure of the life cycle of green technologies, and of the corresponding explorations to scrutinize the relation between green technology production, the territories' characteristics and skills' base of labour market over time and space. The dataset is created identifying green patent in PATSTAT 2016a database using ENV-TECH classification (OECD, 2016) and geolocalizing their inventors. The result is a database covering green innovation worldwide from the 19$^{th}$ century to 2015, even if the period studied is smaller: 1970-2010. This dataset permits a first overview of green technologies evolution over time and space, where we can see differences in terms of country evolution and among technologies in terms of complexity, maybe related with the presence of an heteregeneous body of emerging and mature technologies. To explore further this hypothesis, we develop a methodology to measure technology life cycle stages, and we apply it to understand the patterns of evolution of green technology production at country level. We find that capabilities are more important than wealth to diversify in green innovation, and mature green technologies are positively associated with specialization. We continue the exploration of the relation between local capabilities, life cycle and patent activity in US federal states where we discover that green innovation is more associated than innovation in general with the recombination of distant knowledge, especially in early phases of the life cycle. Finally, we investigate at US commuting zones level the effects of public procurement on green innovation, taking into account local capabilities again, but using labour market skills instead of knowledge recombination variety. We find that green public procurement has a positive and significant effect, in particular in territories with an important share of abstract skills in labour population.},
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Technical Reports
2019
Didier, Emmanuel
Les jeux d’acteurs et la quantification des intérêts économiques autour de la gestion des matières et déchets nucléaires Technical Report
2019, (Rapport d’expertise remis à la Commission Nationale du Débat Public dans le cadre du débat sur le Plan National de Gestion des Matières et Déchets Radioactifs.).
@techreport{Didier2019,
title = {Les jeux d’acteurs et la quantification des intérêts économiques autour de la gestion des matières et déchets nucléaires},
author = {Emmanuel Didier},
url = {https://www.debatpublic.fr/sites/default/files/2021-04/Jeux%20d_acteurs%20PNGMDR%20Rapport%20Emmanuel%20Didier.pdf},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-11-29},
urldate = {2019-11-29},
abstract = {La Commission nationale du débat public (CNDP) est une autorité administrative indépendante créée en 1995 pour garantir le droit à l'information et à la participation des citoyens dans le domaine de l'environnement. Par une décision du 4 avril 2018, la CNDP a décidé que l’élaboration de la cinquième édition du Plan national de gestion des matières et déchets radioactifs ferait l’objet d’un débat public.
Lors des travaux préparatoires à l’organisation de ce débat public, les associations environnementales auditionnées ont souhaité que le public puisse être éclairé sur le système d’acteurs dans le secteur du nucléaire. Ils ont considéré qu’une étude indépendante était nécessaire pour identifier les intérêts économiques, financiers et sociaux qui influencent leurs positions et décisions. Par décision du 6 février 2019, la Commission nationale du débat public a décidé, sur proposition de la Commission particulière, d’engager une expertise complémentaire sur « les jeux d’acteurs et la quantification des intérêts économiques autour du nucléaire », plus particulièrement autour de la gestion des matières et déchets radioactifs.
L’expert a été missionné le 28 juillet 2019 ; le rapport devant être rendu le 29 novembre de la même année.},
howpublished = {Rapport d’expertise remis à la Commission Nationale du Débat Public dans le cadre du débat sur le Plan National de Gestion des Matières et Déchets Radioactifs.},
note = {Rapport d’expertise remis à la Commission Nationale du Débat Public dans le cadre du débat sur le Plan National de Gestion des Matières et Déchets Radioactifs.},
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Lors des travaux préparatoires à l’organisation de ce débat public, les associations environnementales auditionnées ont souhaité que le public puisse être éclairé sur le système d’acteurs dans le secteur du nucléaire. Ils ont considéré qu’une étude indépendante était nécessaire pour identifier les intérêts économiques, financiers et sociaux qui influencent leurs positions et décisions. Par décision du 6 février 2019, la Commission nationale du débat public a décidé, sur proposition de la Commission particulière, d’engager une expertise complémentaire sur « les jeux d’acteurs et la quantification des intérêts économiques autour du nucléaire », plus particulièrement autour de la gestion des matières et déchets radioactifs.
L’expert a été missionné le 28 juillet 2019 ; le rapport devant être rendu le 29 novembre de la même année.
Loconto, Allison; Silva-Castañeda, Laura; Arnold, Nadine; Jimenez, Alejandra
Participatory Analysis of the Use and Impact of the Fairtrade Premium Technical Report
2019.
@techreport{Loconto2019,
title = {Participatory Analysis of the Use and Impact of the Fairtrade Premium},
author = {Allison Loconto and Laura Silva-Castañeda and Nadine Arnold and Alejandra Jimenez},
url = {https://files.fairtrade.net/publications/2019_LISIS_UseImpactFairtradePremium.pdf},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
abstract = {This study was commissioned by Fairtrade Germany and Fairtrade International. It was carried out by a team of researchers working with the Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM) in the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations et Sociétés (LISIS). LISIS is an interdisciplinary research laboratory devoted to the study of science and innovations in society and is specifically renowned for its expertise on agri-food systems. It brings together 35 researchers and professors and 30 PhD and postdoctoral fellows from three core research disciplines: science and technology studies (STS), organization studies and digital studies.
The project team was led by Dr. Allison Marie Loconto and included Dr. Laura Silva-Castañeda, Dr. Nadine Arnold and Ms. Alejandra Jimenez. The field research for the five case studies was carried out directly by the team. The African cases were conducted by Drs. Loconto and Arnold while the South American cases were conducted by Dr. Silva and Ms. Jimenez. Dr. Marc Barbier provided technical support for the CorTexT and IRaMuTeQ analysis used in this study.},
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The project team was led by Dr. Allison Marie Loconto and included Dr. Laura Silva-Castañeda, Dr. Nadine Arnold and Ms. Alejandra Jimenez. The field research for the five case studies was carried out directly by the team. The African cases were conducted by Drs. Loconto and Arnold while the South American cases were conducted by Dr. Silva and Ms. Jimenez. Dr. Marc Barbier provided technical support for the CorTexT and IRaMuTeQ analysis used in this study.
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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
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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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