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On the transmission of texts: written cultures as complex systems
Jean-Baptiste Camps, Julien Randon-Furling, Ulysse Godreau
Our knowledge of past cultures relies considerably on written material. For centuries, texts have been copied, altered, then transmitted or lost - eventually, from surviving docume…
Who could be behind QAnon? Authorship attribution with supervised machine-learning
Florian Cafiero, Jean-Baptiste Camps
A series of social media posts signed under the pseudonym "Q", started a movement known as QAnon, which led some of its most radical supporters to violent and illegal actions. To i…
Lost Manuscripts and Extinct Texts: A Dynamic Model of Cultural Transmission
Jean-Baptiste Camps, Julien Randon-Furling
How did written works evolve, disappear or survive down through the ages? In this paper, we propose a unified, formal framework for two fundamental questions in the study of the tr…
Corpus and Models for Lemmatisation and POS-tagging of Old French
Jean-Baptiste Camps, Thibault Clérice, Frédéric Duval +3
Old French is a typical example of an under-resourced historic languages, that furtherly displays animportant amount of linguistic variation. In this paper, we present the current…
Handling Heavily Abbreviated Manuscripts: HTR engines vs text normalisation approaches
Jean-Baptiste Camps, Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Marguerite Vernet
Although abbreviations are fairly common in handwritten sources, particularly in medieval and modern Western manuscripts, previous research dealing with computational approaches to…
Stylometry for Noisy Medieval Data: Evaluating Paul Meyer's Hagiographic Hypothesis
Jean-Baptiste Camps, Thibault Clérice, Ariane Pinche
Stylometric analysis of medieval vernacular texts is still a significant challenge: the importance of scribal variation, be it spelling or more substantial, as well as the variants…
Standardizing linguistic data: method and tools for annotating (pre-orthographic) French
Simon Gabay, Thibault Clérice, Jean-Baptiste Camps +2
With the development of big corpora of various periods, it becomes crucial to standardise linguistic annotation (e.g. lemmas, POS tags, morphological annotation) to increase the in…
Corpus and Models for Lemmatisation and POS-tagging of Classical French Theatre
Jean-Baptiste Camps, Simon Gabay, Paul Fièvre +2
This paper describes the process of building an annotated corpus and training models for classical French literature, with a focus on theatre, and particularly comedies in verse. I…
Why Molière most likely did write his plays
Florian Cafiero, Jean-Baptiste Camps
As for Shakespeare, a hard-fought debate has emerged about Molière, a supposedly uneducated actor who, according to some, could not have written the masterpieces attributed to him.…
Producing Corpora of Medieval and Premodern Occitan
Jean-Baptiste Camps, Gilles Guilhem Couffignal
At a time when the quantity of - more or less freely - available data is increasing significantly, thanks to digital corpora, editions or libraries, the development of data mining…
Manuscripts in Time and Space: Experiments in Scriptometrics on an Old French Corpus
Jean-Baptiste Camps
Witnesses of medieval literary texts, preserved in manuscript, are layered objects , being almost exclusively copies of copies. This results in multiple and hard to distinguish lin…