Teaching
CURRENT LECTURES AT PARIS SCIENCES ET LETTRES (PSL)
PSL University gathers various institutions, including a few grandes écoles or grands établissements. I give most of my lectures at Ecole Normale Supérieure, École Nationale des Chartes and Dauphine.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE - ECOLE NATIONALE DES CHARTES
Master "Technologies numériques appliquées à l'histoire"
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the knowledge and practical skills needed to apply machine learning techniques to the digitisation, management and analysis of heritage data. Methods covered include:
Computer vision: object detection with YOLOv8, applications to HTR / OCR / cultural heritage data.
Handling audiovisual archives, speech-to-text methods (Whisper)
Large Language Models: prompt engineering, LLM as annotators, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
COMPUTATIONAL LITERARY STUDIES - ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE
Département de lettres et langues
Whether they are dedicated to simple tasks, such as identifying lexis, syntactic phenomena or particular rhythms, or whether they venture to identify the major themes of a text, the stylistic idiosyncrasies of an author, or the narrative structures of a work, so-called 'automatic language processing' tools are playing an increasingly important role in contemporary literary studies. What are the main contributions of these computational approaches? When should we integrate (or not!) these methods into our work? How should we use them? This course will attempt to answer these questions by exploring, both theoretically and practically, the possibilities offered by these tools, their results and their limitations.
COMPUTATIONAL PHILOLOGY - ECOLE NATIONALE DES CHARTES / ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE / ECOLE PRATIQUE DES HAUTES ETUDES
Master "Humanités numériques" + PhD students
Since its inception in 2014 as a part of the "E-Philologie" joint program (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes / Ecole Nationale des Chartes), this lecture shared with Jean-Baptiste Camps has greatly evolved. It now encompasses various programming and mathematical tools useful for textual criticism and stylometry / authorship attribution. My interventions mostly focus on the latter part. We examine the problem of feature selection (words, part-of-speech, functors, character n-grams etc.), corpus size and homogeneity, the notion of distance between styles (cosine, Burrows, MinMax, etc ). Using R, we work on various unsupervised (hierarchical clustering, k-medoids, DBScan etc.) and supervised machine learning (Convolutional Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, Nearest Shrunken Centroïd, etc.) techniques for authorship attribution and style studies in general.
COMPUTATIONAL LAW - PARIS DAUPHINE
PhD students and researchers
Before a series of lectures for master's students, this year's program is aimed at helping PhD students and researchers discover the possibilites of AI for the practice and study of law. It introduces the research of the past decades in computational law, and then mostly focuses on prompt engineering for exploration or annotation of legal data, RAG architectures, and questions regarding ethics and regulations.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH - ECOLE NATIONALE DES CHARTES / ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE / ECOLE PRATIQUE DES HAUTES ETUDES
Master "Humanités numériques"
This lecture aims at teaching the basis of a wide range of quantitative methods applied to the humanities, and to highlight their contributions to the field. I am in charge of the causal inference sections of this lecture, including linear and non-linear correlation and regressions, time-series analysis, multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence and an introduction to cliometrics and cliodynamics.
DIGITAL METHODS AND CURATION - ECOLE NATIONALE DES CHARTES
"Archivistes paléographes" cursus - 2nd year
This class gives a theoretical and practical introduction to network science. We explore the underlying discrete mathematics, survey the various applications to the humanities and social sciences, and learn how to go from or own case and archives to a modeling in terms of networks.
The practical side of the lecture mostly relies on Gephi, but also introduces R programming (statnet and Ergm packages) for Exponential Random Graph Models.
The lecture takes examples each year from an actual ongoing question a cultural heritage institution has to address. In 2023-2024, students had to work on an issue raised by the Institutional Memory Section of the United Nations archives (Geneva).
INVITED LECTURES
STATISTICS WITH R - GENEVA UNIVERSITY / GENEVA GRADUATE INSTITUTE / LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY / FRIBOURG UNIVERSITY / NEUCHÂTEL UNIVERSITY (2023 - today)
Introductory class to R programming for data wrangling and statistics for PhD candidates and researchers of the Centre Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale, regrouping various French-speaking universities of Switzerland. Main applications covered include cartography, text mining and network analysis.
STYLOMETRY AND AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION - SORBONNE UNIVERSITY (2023)
Introduction to authorship attribution for graduate students in literature and history. Programming with R and Python.
COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES OF STYLE - GENEVA UNIVERSITY / GENEVA GRADUATE INSTITUTE / LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY / FRIBOURG UNIVERSITY / NEUCHÂTEL UNIVERSITY (2023)
This series of lectures is a part of a doctoral program in digital studies. It tackles the main theoretical and practical notions related to digital studies of style in the humanities and social sciences. Three main axes will be developed. Each of them are illustrated by an application to a different field of study: criminal sciences; literature and historical sciences; social sciences.
DATA VISUALISATION - GENEVA UNIVERSITY (2020-2021)
Dimensionality reduction (Principal Components Analysis, Factor Analysis, Multi-Dimensional Scaling, T-SNE) and clustering (Ward's hierarchical clustering).
PAST TEACHING
I previously gave lectures for the “Cycle Pluridisciplinaire d’Études Supérieures”, an undergraduate interdisciplinary program in Humanities (“Introduction to digital humanities” at the Lycée Henri IV - Paris / Paris Sciences et Lettres University). I also lectured in "quantitative methods for text analysis" for the master's students in literature at Orléans University (2019)
I also served as a teaching assistant in college ("Introduction to economics", Sorbonne University, "Mathematics / Analysis", Panthéon - Assas University), in engineering school ("Introduction to economics", Ecole Centrale - Paris), and in "Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles" ("Analyse économique et historique des sociétés contemporaines", Lycée Montaigne - Paris).
SUPERVISIONS AND COMMITTEES
ADMISSIONS COMMITTEES
Member of the admissions committee - Digital Humanities Master's program - Ecole nationale des chartes/Ecole Normale Supérieure / EPHE (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Member of the admissions committee - international selection - Digital Humanities Master's program - Ecole nationale des chartes/PSL (2019, 2020, 2021)
PHD SUPERVISOR
V. Saïag, co-supervisor, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, 2024
PHD COMMITTEE
Z. Fan, PhD candidate, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, 2024
M.A. ADVISOR
S. Marcq, Digital Technologies Applied to History, Ecole nationale des chartes - Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2024.
Y. Zribi, M2, Digital Humanities master program, Ecole normale supérieure / Ecole nationale des chartes / Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2024.
A Lionnet, M1, Digital Humanities master program, Ecole normale supérieure / Ecole nationale des chartes / Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2024.
F. Hemery, M1, Digital Humanities master program, Ecole normale supérieure / Ecole nationale des chartes / Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2024.
F. Savatteri, M1, Digital Humanities master program, Ecole normale supérieure / Ecole nationale des chartes / Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2024.
A. Salvador, M1, Digital Humanities master program, Ecole normale supérieure / Ecole nationale des chartes / Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2024.
R. Tamtam, 2023, M1, "Twitter:ID et Idées", Digital Humanities master program, Ecole normale supérieure / Ecole nationale des chartes / Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2023.
V. Saiag, M2, "Déjouer les silences : Représentations et (re)configurations de la féminité dans la littérature lesbienne du Paris fin-de-siècle", Ecole normale supérieure / Ecole nationale des chartes / Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2023.
Y. Zribi, "Variations des choix de composition d’autrices d’essais vidéo critiques publiés sur Youtube", M1, Ecole normale supérieure / Ecole nationale des chartes / Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2023.
R. Verny, "Dynamiques et diffusion de discours de haine dans la sphère réactionnaire française sur YouTube au moment de l’élection présidentielle de 2022. Approches par l’analyse de réseau et l’apprentissage profond", M2, Ecole normale supérieure / Ecole nationale des chartes / Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2023.
V. Saiag, "Représentations de la féminité dans la littérature lesbienne du Paris - fin de siècle, Renouvellements, permanences et influences (1880-1970)", M1, Ecole normale supérieure / Ecole nationale des chartes / Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2023.
A. Escoda, " Le traitement du boulangisme par la presse française - Étude de cas à travers l’OCR du quotidien Le Matin au cours de l’année 1887 ", M1, Ecole normale supérieure / Ecole nationale des chartes / Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2023.
T. Ruault, "La mise en visibilité du problème climatique dans les médias en ligne: le cas de la mort de George Floyd", M2, Ecole nationale des chartes / Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2021
R. Verny, "Communication et stratégie militante de l’extrême-droite française en ligne: l’exemple de la dissolution de Génération Identitaire", M1, Ecole normale supérieure / Ecole nationale des chartes / Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2023.
T. Ruault, "La construction médiatique de l’espace public français - l’exemple de Twitter", M1, Ecole nationale des chartes / Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2020
M.A. COMMITTEE MEMBER
E. Caballé, "Etude des rapports entre journalistes et enquêteurs, juristes et chercheurs vis-à-vis des techniques d’OSINT pour lutter contre la désinformation sur les réseaux sociaux.", M1 Economie, organisation et société, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, 2024.
M.L. Lopez, "Décrire son travail, écrire sa condition - Femmes et hommes domestiques dans la presse d’annonces (Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, 1750-1815)", M2 Humanités Numériques, Ecole nationale des chartes / Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2023 (president of the jury)
J.Bollée, "Mind telling? Investigating variations in mind-mindedness across cultures using the medium of fictions ", M2 Cogmaster, Ecole Normale Supérieure / Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2023 (committee member)
V. Sarbach, M2 Humanités Numériques, Ecole nationale des chartes / Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2023 (president of the jury)
Z. Leveque, "Dynamique de la passion: le motif de l'amour dans les textes XVIIe et XIXe siècles", M2 Humanités Numériques, Ecole nationale des chartes / Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2023 (president of the jury)
L.-F. Franchet d'Espérey, "Le pamphlet, un genre littéraire ? Étude textométrique du genre pamphlétaire", M2 Humanités Numériques, Ecole nationale des chartes / Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2023 (president of the jury)
C. Perrault, "Détecter et quantifier l'agentivité dans la langue - Une perspective évolutionnaire", M2 Humanités Numériques, Ecole nationale des chartes / Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2023 (president of the jury)
G. Elgarrista "Approches de la correspondance de Claude Debussy à partir des outils numériques : analyse de réseaux et analyse lexicale", M2 Humanités Numériques, Ecole nationale des chartes / Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2020 (president of the jury)
A. Jeanrenaud, "Les artistes contemporains et leurs oeuvres sur les réseaux sociaux - Une nouvelle source pour l’Histoire de l’Art ?", M1 Humanités Numériques, Ecole nationale des chartes / Paris Sciences et Lettres, 2020 (committee member)
INTERNSHIP SUPERVISION
U. Sahu (Indian Institute of Technology - Madras), internship at Ecole nationale des chartes - PSL, 2024.
Z. Eberstadt (Johns Hopkins University), "Forensic linguistics and transcibed spoken text", internship at Ecole nationale des chartes - PSL, 2024.
E. Cabalé (Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay / Paris-Saclay University), "Vote virtuel, doute réel ? ", internship at Ecole nationale des chartes - PSL, 2024.
L. Pérochaud (EPITECH), "Les dérives sectaires en ligne", project MIVILUDES / Gemass (CNRS - Paris Sorbonne), 2021.