Marcello Vitali-Rosati and Antoine Fauchié at the monthly Elico seminar
Marcello Vitali-Rosati and Antoine Fauchié are guest speakers at the "l'éditorialisation scientifique en question" session of the monthly Elico seminar on May 16.
Useful information
Date: May 16th, 2025 @ 2pm (CEST)
Location: Université Jean Moulin – site Manufacture des Tabacs
Videoconference link HERE.
Seminar presentation
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'éditorialisation 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.
Qu'est-ce qu'un texte scientifique à l'époque des LLMs?
Speaker: Marcello Vitali-Rosati
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?
Modéliser des publications savantes. Entre indépendance technologique et adoption de protocoles
Speaker: Antoine Fauchié
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 colonialités : théories et circulations en portugais et en français" directed by Natália Guerellus, "Pour une théorie de l'édition. Comment la matière produit la pensée et l'humain" by Marcello Vitali-Rosati, and "L'Acte d'image en littérature" directed by Servanne Monjour and Anne Reverseau.