Publications by Yannick Rochat

The Swiss Pong: Bong

2020

Diachronic Evaluation of NER Systems on Old Newspapers

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Yannick Rochat, Giovanni Colavizza

In recent years, many cultural institutions have engaged in large-scale newspaper digitization projects and large amounts of historical texts are being acquired (via transcription or OCRization). Beyond document preservation, the next step consists in prov ...

Bochumer Linguistische Arbeitsberichte2016

Navigating through 200 years of historical newspapers

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Yannick Rochat, Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet, Vincent Christian Buntinx

This paper aims to describe and explain the processes behind the creation of a digital library composed of two Swiss newspapers, namely Gazette de Lausanne (1798-1998) and Journal de Genève (1826-1998), covering an almost two-century period. We developed a ...

2016

A Method for Record Linkage with Sparse Historical Data

Maud Ehrmann, Yannick Rochat, Giovanni Colavizza

Massive digitization of archival material, coupled with automatic document processing techniques and data visualisation tools offers great opportunities for reconstructing and exploring the past. Unprecedented wealth of historical data (e.g. names of perso ...

2016

Character network analysis of Émile Zola’s Les Rougon-Macquart

Yannick Rochat

In this work, we use network analysis methods to sketch a typology of fiction novels based on characters and their proximity in the narration. We construct character networks modelling the twenty novels composing Les Rougon-Macquart, written by Émile Zola. ...

2015

Analyse des réseaux de personnages dans Les Confessions de Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Frédéric Kaplan, Yannick Rochat

Cet article étudie le concept de centralité dans les réseaux de personnages apparaissant dans Les Confessions de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Notre objectif est ainsi de caractériser certains aspects des rôles des personnages du récit sur la base de leurs cooccu ...

2014

A Network Analysis Approach of the Venetian Incanto System

Frédéric Kaplan, Yannick Rochat, Andrea Mazzei, Mélanie Suzanne Charlotte Fournier

The objective of this paper was to perform new analyses about the structure and evolution of the Incanto system. The hypothesis was to go beyond the textual narrative or even cartographic representation thanks to network analysis, which could potentially o ...

2014