Le Réel dans le texte : lecture et interprétation de la figure de Bartleby le scribe

La nouvelle « Bartleby The Scrivener. A Story of Wall-Street » pose des questions de lecture et d’interprétation littéraire. Grâce à des approches ayant le discours pour objet ou moyen de connaissance (rhétorique, étymologie, psychanalyse, pragmatique) de même qu’aux écrits de Herman Melville, il s’agit de cerner ce que représente Bartleby, qualifié d’« unaccountable » (inexplicable). Ce mot organise l’étude. Entier ou décomposé en morphèmes, dans une première partie, il met en évidence des univers de sens où Bartleby se montre marginal et court-circuite les systèmes : l’univers du langage (« unaccountable » : inénarrable), celui de la loi (« count » : chef d’accusation) et celui des chiffres (« account, count » : compte, compter). Une seconde partie rattache les pistes de lecture implicites ainsi dégagées aux thématiques de l’« inexplicable », explicites dans le texte, permettant une interprétation touchant l’univers des lettres, leur pérennité et leur circulation par le biais de la lecture et de l’interprétation.

Strengthening argumentation in medical explanations by text planning revision

Explanations are an important by-product of medical decisionsupport activities, as they have proved to favour compliance and correct treatment performance. To achieve this purpose, these texts should have a strong argumentation content and should adapt to emotional, as well as to rational attitudes of the Addressee. This paper describes how Rhetorical Sentence Planning can contribute to this aim: the rulebased plan discourse revision is introduced between Text Planning and Linguistic Realization, and exploits knowledge about the user personality and emotions and about the potential impact of domain items on user compliance and memory recall. The proposed approach originates from analytical and empirical evaluation studies of computer generated explanation texts in the domain of drug prescription. This work was partially supported by a British-Italian Collaboration in Research and Higher Education Project, which involved the Universities of Reading and of Bari, in 1996.

SAB(IO): A BIOLOGICALLY PLAUSIBLE CONNECTIONIST APPROACH TO AUTOMATIC TEXT SUMMARIZATION

An implementation of a computational tool to generate new summaries from new source texts is presented, by means of the connectionist approach (artificial neural networks). Among other contributions that this work intends to bring to natural language processing research, the use of a more biologically plausible connectionist architecture and training for automatic summarization is emphasized. The choice relies on the expectation that it may bring an increase in computational efficiency when compared to the sa-called biologically implausible algorithms.

EOPAS, the EthnoER online representation of interlinear text

One of the goals of the ARC funded Eresearch project called Sharing access and analytical tools for ethnographic digital media using high speed networks, or simply EthnoER is to take outputs of normal linguistic analytical processes and present them online in a system we have called the EthnoER online presentation and annotation system, or EOPAS.

IMAGE, MAGIC AND IMAGINATION: CHALLENGES TO THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL TEXT

What different forms of engagement do image and text allow the spectator/reader? We know that text and image communicate, and that all communication depends on a relationship between those who communicate. The objective of this text is therefore to understand the new possibilities available to an anthropology of the expression of knowledge that makes use of images, such as photographs and films.

Transgendering shojo shosetsu: Girls' inter-text/sex-uality

This essay recognises the power of reading and intertextuality (embedding texts within texts) in fiction targeted at girls and young women.