Une tradition littéraire

Machine translation for litterature: a pilot study (Traduction automatisée d'une oeuvre littéraire: une étude pilote) [in French]

Current machine translation (MT ) techniques are continuously improving. In specific areas, post-editing (PE) allows to obtain high-quality translations relatively quickly. But is such a pipeline (MT+PE) usable to translate a literary work (fiction, short story) ? This paper tries to bring a preliminary answer to this question. A short story by American writer Richard Powers, still not availabl...

Beyond Tradition

Freedom, Reason, and Tradition

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Freedom, Reason, and Tradition

It is a piece of idle senthentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, or prevailing against the dungeon and the stake. Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application oflegal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either. The real advantage which truth has, consists in th...

The Kraepelinian tradition

Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) was an influential figure in the history of psychiatry as a clinical science. This paper, after briefly presenting his biography, discusses the conceptual foundations of his concept of mental illness and follows this line of thought through to late 20th-century "Neo-Kraepelinianism," including recent criticism, particularly of the nosological dichotomy of endogenous p...