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Valérie Beaudouin is professor of Social Science and Humanities at Telecom ParisTech and research fellow at EHESS-CEMS (Centre d’étude des mouvements sociaux). She graduated from ENSAE ParisTech...

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Valérie Beaudouin is professor of Social Science and Humanities at Telecom ParisTech and research fellow at EHESS-CEMS (Centre d’étude des mouvements sociaux). She graduated from ENSAE ParisTech, as a Statistician Economist in 1991, holds an MSc in literature (Sorbonne, 1992) and a PhD in Linguistics EHESS (2000, supervisor Jacques Roubaud). While at Crédoc, she specialized in text mining, in Benzecri’s data analysis school tradition. Her doctoral thesis described the relations between the rhythm of verse and the semantics and pragmatics on the complete works of Corneille and Racine. When head of department at Orange R&D, she combined text mining tools with social network analysis to classify and map internet content and uses. She has been working on on-line communities, self-publication (personal homepages and blogs), author’s networks, online amateur critiques, and currently the construction of heritage and digital memories about WWI with the French National Library.

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Susan Hunston is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK. She specialises in corpus linguistics and discourse analysis and teaches on courses in these subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate level...

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Susan Hunston is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK. She specialises in corpus linguistics and discourse analysis and teaches on courses in these subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is author most recently of Corpus Approaches to Evaluation: Phraseology and evaluative language (2011/Routledge) and previously of Corpora in Applied Linguistics (2002/CUP). She is co-author of Pattern Grammar: a corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English (1999/Benjamins) and co-editor of Evaluation in Text: authorial stance and the construction of discourse (2000/OUP) and System and Corpus: exploring the connections (2005/Equinox). She has also published numerous articles on the expression of stance or evaluation, especially in academic prose, on the use of corpora to describe the grammar and lexis of English, and on the interface between corpus and discourse studies.

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Directrice de Recherche au CNRS, j’ai été recrutée en 1984 dans la section 32 « Mondes anciens et médiévaux » avec un rattachement au Centre Alfred Ernout de Paris IV. En 1993...

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Directrice de Recherche au CNRS, j’ai été recrutée en 1984 dans la section 32 « Mondes anciens et médiévaux » avec un rattachement au Centre Alfred Ernout de Paris IV. En 1993, j’ai effectué une mobilité géographique et thématique en rejoignant l’équipe « Statistique linguistique » dirigée par Étienne Brunet à Nice, ce qui m’a conduite à demander en 1999 un rattachement à la section 34 « Langues, langage, discours ». Spécialiste de linguistique latine, j’ai choisi de situer mes travaux dans un double cadre théorique et méthodologique : celui de la Théorie des Opérations Enonciatives d’Antoine Culioli et celui de la statistique linguistique appliquée aux textes littéraires. La sémantique des catégories grammaticales est mon objet d’étude linguistique privilégié. Mais je consacre aussi nombre de travaux à la méthodologie de l’analyse des données textuelles, en collaboration avec les membres de mon équipe niçoise et avec Dominique Longrée du Laboratoire d’Analyse Statistique des Langues Anciennes de l’Université de Liège. Ces collaborations ont en particulier conduit à une réflexion sur l’asymétrie de la cooccurrence, à une théorisation de la représentation topologique des textes et à la définition formelle d’une nouvelle unité textuelle, le motif.

Mes premiers travaux ont été récompensés en1988 par la médaille de bronze du CNRS.

J’ai dirigé le laboratoire BCL pendant 8 ans, j’ai été pendant 4 ans membre du Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique (dans la section 34 et dans la Commission interdisciplinaire consacrée aux sciences cognitives). Je suis actuellement Vice-présidente de l’Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, en charge de la Commission de la Recherche et du Collège des Etudes Doctorales.

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Dr. Michael Oakes is a Reader in Computational Linguistics in RGCL. He was appointed to the post two years ago, having previously worked for 13 years as a Senior Lecturer in Computing at the University of Sunderland...

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Dr. Michael Oakes (http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~in4326/) is a Reader in Computational Linguistics in RGCL. He was appointed to the post two years ago, having previously worked for 13 years as a Senior Lecturer in Computing at the University of Sunderland. He was the Principal Investigator at Sunderland for the EU-funded VITALAS project (http://vitalas.ercim.eu), which produced a multimedia search engine to help people find pictures of interest to them in the BELGA News Agency collection. Sunderland’s responsibility was to perform the necessary text processing. Dr. Oakes’ doctoral thesis was in the area of information retrieval, and he has successfully acted as the main supervisor for seven doctoral students of his own in this area. He has a long standing interest in studies of disputed authorship. He worked with Dr. Alois Pichler at the Wittgenstein Archives in Bergen to look at works thought to have been dictated by Wittgenstein. With the late Dr. Harry Erwin he used the multivariate technique of correspondence analysis to examine evidence for a Signs Gospel, a possible precursor of the Gospel of St. John. His most recent book, “Literary Detective Work on the Computer” (2104) was published by John Benjamins, and included chapters on disputed authorship, plagiarism and spam, stylometry (computer studies of the writing style) of Shakespeare and religious texts, and they ways in which computers can help to decipher lost languages. He is writing the chapter on “Disputed Authorship, Stylometry and Spam” for the next edition of the “Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics”. With Meng Ji, he edited “Quantitative Methods in Corpus-Based Translation Studies” (2012), a practical guide to descriptive translation research, which aims to introduce statistical methods to the field of Translation Studies. Michael’s first book was “Statistics for Corpus Linguistics” which came out in 1998.

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