Les gens qui fument prennent des pauses!

Colors of People (Les couleurs des gens) [in French]

In Natural Language Processing and semantic analysis in particular, color information may be important in order to properly process textual information (word sense disambiguation, and indexing). More specifically, knowing which colors are generally associated to terms is a crucial information. In this paper, we explore how crowdsourcing through a game with a purpose (GWAP) can be an adequate st...

Des grammaires de graphes contextuelles qui charactérisent les langages contextuels

Deterministic graph grammars generate a family of infinite graphs which characterize context-free (word) languages. In this paper we presents a context-sensitive extension of these grammars. We achieve a characterization of context-sensitive (word) languages. We show that this characterization is not straightforward and that unless having some rigorous restrictions, contextual graph grammars ge...

Les maladies des animaux dues à des Clostridium welchii

Music-ripping: des pratiques qui provoquent la musicologie

Out of the scope of the usual positions of computing in the field of music and musicology, one notices the emergence of human-computer systems that do exist by breaking off. Though these singular systems take effect in the usual fields of expansion of music, they do not make any systematic reference to known musicological categories. On the contrary, they make possible experiments that open use...

Une chimie qui guérit: histoire de la découverte des sulfamides

LESLIE T. MORTON and ROBERT J. MOORE, A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography, Aldershot, Hants, Scolar Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. ix, 208, £37.50. This book was originally conceived as a third edition of John Thornton's slim paperback A select bibliography of medical biography (1961, 1970) but has been so much enlarged and improved that it is rightly presented as a new work. Like its pre...