Publications by Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet

A Simple Set of Rules for Characters and Place Recognition in French Novels

Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet, Frédéric Kaplan

2017

Studying Linguistic Changes over 200 Years of Newspapers through Resilient Words Analysis

Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet, Frédéric Kaplan, Vincent Christian Buntinx

This paper presents a methodology to analyze linguistic changes in a given textual corpus allowing to overcome two common problems related to corpus linguistics studies. One of these issues is the monotonic increase of the corpus size with time, and the ot ...

2017

Narrative Recomposition in the Context of Digital Reading

Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet

In any creative process, the tools one uses have an immediate influence on the shape of the final artwork. However, while the digital revolution has redefined core values in most creative domains over the last few decades, its impact on literature remains ...

EPFL2017

Navigating through 200 years of historical newspapers

Yannick Rochat, Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet, Frédéric Kaplan, Vincent Christian Buntinx, Maud Ehrmann

This paper aims to describe and explain the processes behind the creation of a digital library composed of two Swiss newspapers, namely Gazette de Lausanne (1798-1998) and Journal de Genève (1826-1998), covering an almost two-century period. We developed a ...

2016

Anatomy of a Drop-Off Reading Curve

Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet, Frédéric Kaplan

Not all readers finish the book they start to read. Electronic media allow to us to measure more precisely how this “drop-off” effect unfolds as readers are reading a book. A curve showing how many people have read each chapter of a book is likely to be pr ...

2015

La simulation humaine : le roman-fleuve comme terrain d'expérimentation narrative

Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet, Frédéric Kaplan

Dans cet article nous présentons la démarche et les premiers résultats d’une recherche participative menée conjointement par le laboratoire d’humanités digitales de l’EPFL (DHLAB) et l’écrivain suisse Daniel de Roulet. Dans cette étude, nous explorons les ...

2014

A Preparatory Analysis of Peer-Grading for a Digital Humanities MOOC

Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet, Frédéric Kaplan

Over the last two years, Massive Open Online Classes (MOOCs) have been unexpectedly successful in convincing large number of students to pursue online courses in a variety of domains. Contrary to the "learn anytime anywhere" moto, this new generation of co ...

2014