Colloquium

Revue 3.0 and Stylo @ Université de Montpellier Paul Valery

Victor Chaix, a doctoral student affiliated with the CRCEN and the Revue 3.0 project, and a member of the Stylo project team, will be presenting at the “Les Humanités Numériques: Engagement et Apprentissages à l'Université” conference.
Calendar Days 2025-06-25
Colloquium

International Conference Wikidata and Research

Mathilde Verstraete, Maxime Guénette (and Marcello Vitali-Rosati, in absentia) will present a paper as part of the Wikidata and Research International Conference.
Calendar Days 2025-06-05
Conference

Marcello Vitali-Rosati will give a lecture @ DHSI

Marcello Vitali-Rosati will give a lecture @ DHSI on Monday June 2th at l'Université de Montréal. The title of his conference is "A Formal Definition of Creativity: LLM, Softmax and Temperature"
Calendar Days 2025-06-02
Workshop

AI Workshop at Circé's États généraux

Alexia Schneider and Marcello Vitali-Rosati will lead a workshop on the use of artificial intelligence in the editorial practices of scholarly journals, with a particular focus on the search for reviewers.
Calendar Days 2025-05-08
Colloquium

Revue3.0 at the Humanistica 2025 Conference

Revue3.0 students will present a paper at the Humanistica 2025 international conference entitled: “Pratiques d'écriture et épistémologie du texte : redéfinir le texte scientifique avec Stylo”.
Calendar Days 2025-04-25
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      "content_html": "<p>Marcello Vitali-Rosati and Antoine Fauchi&eacute; are guest speakers at the \"l'&eacute;ditorialisation scientifique en question\" session of the monthly Elico seminar on May 16.&nbsp;</p>\n<h3>Useful information&nbsp;</h3>\n<p>Date: May 16th, 2025 @ 2pm (CEST)&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Location: Universit&eacute; Jean Moulin &ndash; site Manufacture des Tabacs</p>\n<p>Videoconference link <a href=\"https://univlyon3.webex.com/univlyon3- en/j.php?MTID=mea1fb8eaebbc95ab9387a12792d2872c \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE</a>.&nbsp;</p>\n<h3>Seminar presentation&nbsp;</h3>\n<p>This seminar echoes the team's theme: \"Norms-institutions and Documentary Knowledge\". It also follows on from the \"Editorialisation et annotation\" seminar held on May 31, 2024, in collaboration with the Impec research group (ICAR, ENS de Lyon laboratory) and the Marge multidisciplinary team (Lyon). The title of the 2025 seminar is \"L'&eacute;ditorialisation scientifique en question\", and it will look more closely at changes in the landscape of scientific publishing in publishing ecosystems, after presenting the progress of the Mamdans publishing project in collaboration with MSH Lyon-St Etienne. The intention here is to put writing and content production technologies, and the new models emerging from them, into critical perspective. The issues at stake for research in terms of publication and evaluation in the human and social sciences will also be addressed.</p>\n<h3>Qu'est-ce qu'un texte scientifique &agrave; l'&eacute;poque des LLMs?</h3>\n<p>Speaker: Marcello Vitali-Rosati</p>\n<p>Abstract: The rapid spread of Large Language Models (LLMs) is imposing a single, uniform vision of text, based on theoretical presuppositions that consider text as a series of characters whose meaning can be statistically induced by analyzing their relationships in large corpora. While this model, derived from advances in structuralist linguistic theories, and in particular from the application of Firth's distributional hypothesis, is undoubtedly of great commercial - and in part scientific - interest, it produces an idea of text that is far removed from the interpretive models that characterize the human sciences, which think of text as a complex structure, made up of elements with highly specific meanings and hierarchies, rather than simple strings of characters. What does writing in the humanities mean in the age of LLMs?</p>\n<h3>Mod&eacute;liser des publications savantes. Entre ind&eacute;pendance technologique et adoption de protocoles&nbsp;</h3>\n<p>Speaker: Antoine Fauchi&eacute;</p>\n<p>Abstract: Against a backdrop of unbridled technological change and ecological transition, the development of original forms of scholarly publication seems difficult to reconcile with objectives of autonomy and sobriety. However, the adoption of standards for structuring content and displaying data for scientific monographs is partly a response to a desire to get away from the homogenization of open-access publishing models, and partly to a need to experiment with modular, reproducible publishing chains. To illustrate this movement towards experimental modeling, I analyze three digital publishing projects in which I was involved: \"Colonialismes et colonialit&eacute;s : th&eacute;ories et circulations en portugais et en fran&ccedil;ais\" directed by Nat&aacute;lia Guerellus, \"Pour une th&eacute;orie de l'&eacute;dition. Comment la mati&egrave;re produit la pens&eacute;e et l'humain\" by Marcello Vitali-Rosati, and \"L'Acte d'image en litt&eacute;rature\" directed by Servanne Monjour and Anne Reverseau.&nbsp;</p>\n<h3>&nbsp;</h3>",
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      "content_html": "<p>As part of the first &Eacute;tats g&eacute;n&eacute;raux des revues scientifiques du Qu&eacute;bec organized by <a href=\"https://reseaucirce.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">R&eacute;seau Circ&eacute;</a>, Alexia Schneider and Marcello Vitali-Rosati will be leading a workshop on the uses of artificial intelligence in the editorial practices of scholarly journals, with a particular focus on the search for reviewers.</p>\n<p>The workshop will guide participants through a series of techniques designed to automate this complex task. The first step was to formulate queries to the <a href=\"https://openalex.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Alex</a> database, experimenting with different types of textual similarity measures, later refined using Python libraries specialized in calculating semantic distances. The workshop will also introduce the use of language micro-models, presenting alternative AI solutions to conversational approaches.</p>",
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      "content_html": "<p class=\"\" data-start=\"69\" data-end=\"607\">On Friday, April 25, Halima Malek, a master's student affiliated with the Revue3.0 project and the Canada Research Chair on Digital Textualities, will present a paper at the Humanistica 2025 conference (the annual conference of the Francophone Association for Digital Humanities).<br data-start=\"344\" data-end=\"347\">Titled <em data-start=\"354\" data-end=\"441\">\"Writing Practices and Text Epistemology: Redefining the Scientific Text with Stylo,\"</em> the paper is co-authored with Roch Delannay, Giulia Ferretti, and Marcello Vitali-Rosati.<br data-start=\"531\" data-end=\"534\">The presentation will take place at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar.</p>\n<h2 data-start=\"586\" data-end=\"619\">Abstract</h2>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"621\" data-end=\"1015\">This presentation introduces Stylo and its text epistemology. Launched in 2017 by the Canada Research Chair on Digital Textualities, and supported by the research infrastructures Huma-Num and M&eacute;topes,&nbsp;Stylo is part of the Canadian partnership project Revue3.0. As both a semantic text editor and a research project, <em data-start=\"936\" data-end=\"943\">Stylo</em> offers a unique opportunity to explore its research dimension in depth.</p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1017\" data-end=\"1379\">With Stylo, we examine scholarly writing practices, particularly the meaning of writing in digital contexts and the impact of its environment on scholarly production (Vitali-Rosati et al., 2020). To address these questions, <em data-start=\"1243\" data-end=\"1250\">Stylo</em> develops a text epistemology centered on writing and publishing practices based on standards such as Markdown, YAML, and BibTeX.</p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1381\" data-end=\"1917\">As writing practices continue to evolve, we integrate them into Stylo&rsquo;s ecosystem as features in order to explore how these new practices intra-act (Barad 2007, 2023) with the document (Briet 1951; Buckland 1997). Stylo is thus a space of experimentation, where features model and structure information in a document, allowing us to examine their epistemological significance in the humanities. This presentation will share results and analyses from these experiments, within the theme of &ldquo;new&rdquo; practices and uses in the humanities.</p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1919\" data-end=\"3025\">To do so, we focus on the restructuring of article metadata&mdash;a prerequisite for developing the corpus feature. This feature allows users to group multiple Stylo articles under a single label and export them collectively. Corpora exist at a higher hierarchical level than articles, which are considered the smallest editorial units in Stylo. Integrating this feature raises several questions: What is a document in Stylo? What constitutes a suitable metadata structure for a document? Which elements should be made explicit, and at what editorial scale? Do metadata structures reflect the editorial practices adopted by journals? These questions have guided the development and integration of the corpus concept in Stylo&rsquo;s architecture. While the article has historically been Stylo&rsquo;s core editorial unit&mdash;the only object considered a document (P&eacute;dauque 2006)&mdash;corpora emerge as new editorial objects and documents in their own right: books, journal issues, theses, websites, and more. We will demonstrate how these new objects redefine the notion of scholarly text (and document) in Stylo.</p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"3027\" data-end=\"3464\">As scholarly writing practices continue to evolve&mdash;evidenced by the growing use of tools based on artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms&mdash;Stylo will continue to experiment with new forms of modelling. The meticulous restructuring of elements within a Stylo document presented here will serve as a foundation for experimenting with AI algorithms to address specific aspects of the document, such as bibliographic references or keywords.</p>",
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      "content_html": "<p>Marcello Vitali-Rosati will take part in the &ldquo;&Eacute;criture et bidouillage: formats, bricoles et ateliers de production de la pens&eacute;e&rdquo; session, organized jointly by the Huma-Num Lab and MSH Mondes, on the theme Human and social sciences in the digital age: between low tech and the general computerization of data.&nbsp;</p>\n<h2>Presentation &Eacute;criture et bidouillage: formats, bricoles and workshops for the production of thought</h2>\n<p>The material contexts of writing are central to the production of ideas and thought. Far from being just &ldquo;tools&rdquo; or limited to &ldquo;influencing&rdquo; a disembodied thought that would only materialize in a text, formats, interfaces and writing chains are thought. That's why it's essential to tinker with environments, personalize formats and imagine ad hoc writing chains for each different situation. Marcello Vitali-Rosati will give a few examples of how to set up DIY writing environments that can be understood as thought workshops.</p>\n<p>Date : April 10th, fromt 2-4 pm CEST</p>\n<p>For the videoconference link, click <a href=\"https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcnrs.zoom.us%2Fj%2F93704172678%3Fpwd%3D8hJXKDFUayYZPLTJKcKTntZYSbid12.1&amp;data=05%7C02%7Chalima.malek%40umontreal.ca%7Cdf2e57cc3c8c4451e28408dd748b93df%7Cd27eefec2a474be7981e0f8977fa31d8%7C1%7C0%7C638794865025199597%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ox3evePssN09bCCf0zvO1zEpoJZOBqB9VZrUYNwAeJw%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.</a></p>\n<p>Photo : Louis-Olivier Brassard.&nbsp;</p>",
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