Related papers: An interview with Bernard Teissier
The present paper is a brief overview of random opinion dynamics on random graphs based on the Ising Lecture given by the author at the World Congress in Probability and Statistics, 12--16 August 2024, Bochum, Germany. The content is a…
This paper presents a complete processing workflow for extracting information from French census lists from 1836 to 1936. These lists contain information about individuals living in France and their households. We aim at extracting all the…
Extracting the speech of participants in a conversation amidst interfering speakers and noise presents a challenging problem. In this paper, we introduce the novel task of target conversation extraction, where the goal is to extract the…
This paper presents the preliminary works to put online a French oral corpus and its transcription. This corpus is the Socio-Linguistic Survey in Orleans, realized in 1968. First, we numerized the corpus, then we handwritten transcribed it…
Relationships between people constantly evolve, altering interpersonal behavior and defining social groups. Relationships between nodes in social networks can be represented by a tie strength, often empirically assessed using surveys. While…
A critical aspect of power systems research is the availability of suitable data, access to which is limited by privacy concerns and the sensitive nature of energy infrastructure. This lack of data, in turn, hinders the development of…
This paper describes an English audio and textual dataset of debating speeches, a unique resource for the growing research field of computational argumentation and debating technologies. We detail the process of speech recording by…
The electoral system is a cornerstone of democracy, shaping the structure of political competition, representation, and accountability. In the case of France, it is difficult to access data describing elected representatives, though, as…
This volume contains the proceedings of PLACES 2023, the 14th edition of the Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software. The PLACES workshop series offers a forum for researchers from…
25th anniversary and new building dedication Centre de Recherches Math\'{e}matiques Montr\'{e}al, Canada, October 1994
Existing conversational datasets consist either of written proxies for dialog or small-scale transcriptions of natural speech. We introduce 'Interview': a large-scale (105K conversations) media dialog dataset collected from news interview…
This note is the transcription of an interview with Professor Luigi Rodino, on the occasion of the ISAAC-ICMAM Conference of Analysis in Developing Countries (December 2, 2024 - Bogot\`a), that was dedicated to him. Luigi Rodino is at…
This is the write-up of the talk I gave at the 23rd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP) in Bordeaux, France, July 6th, 2018. The talk was a general overview of the state of the art of time-varying, mainly convex,…
This is an expanded version of the Maskit memorial tribute that appeared in the August 2025 issue of the Notices of the AMS.
Collecting accurate and fine-grain information about the music people like, dislike and actually listen to has long been a challenge for sociologists. As millions of people now use online music streaming services, research can build upon…
This is an idiosyncratic account of the main results presented at the 31st Rencontres de Blois, which took place from June 2nd to June 7th, 2019 in the Castle of Blois, France.
These lecture notes have been prepared for a series of lectures given at the Summer School "From kinetic equations to statistical mechanics", (see https://www.lebesgue.fr/content/sem2021-equat_cynet ) organised by the Henri Lebesgue Center…
Oral history is about oral sources of witnesses and commentors on historical events. Speech technology is an important instrument to process such recordings in order to obtain transcription and further enhancements to structure the oral…
A novel information-theoretic method for reconstruction of interaction networks is introduced. We prove that the method is exact for some class of networks. Performance tests on large synthetic transcriptional regulatory networks produce…
Editorial of the International Conference (NEXT 2003): News and expectations in Thermostatistics, Sardinia 21-28 Sept. 2003