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Corpus de textes : composer, mesurer, interpréter

Corpus de textes : composer, mesurer, interpréter

Edited by Emeline Comby, Yannick Mosset, Stéphanie Carrara

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Textual corpora: compilation, analysis, interpretation

Epistemological, theoretical and methodologic interrogations about corpuses, especially textual corpuses, nourish Humanities and human and social sciences. Inside this reflexion, the three essential stages of constituting, measuring and interpreting corpuses are separate, even if, practically, they are interlocked in circulatory processes. What are the criteria, theoretical but, often, also practical, which determine the constitution of a research corpus? What tools and softwares allow the researcher to make the better use of the corpus? How can we depart quantitative and qualitative approaches?

In this book, researchers from different fields are associated in order to look at the same object in different ways: the corpus appears sometimes like a search field, sometimes like a ground for methodological exploration, sometimes like an object of theoretical reflexions. Thus, the interdisciplinary approach, based on diverse feedbacks, allows to share reflexions, methods and tools (especially by comparing various available softwares), within a shared questioning which will concern everybody who is confronted to the notion of corpus, being a beginner or an experienced user.