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Yannick Rochat
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A Quantitative Study of Historical Video Games (1981–2015)
This chapter presents a dataset of 1,725 historical video games released between 1981 and 2015, with a particular focus on the distribution of these games across platforms, genres, and historical eras over time. The same importance is given in this large-s ...
Routledge2019Navigating through 200 years of historical newspapers
Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Yannick Rochat, Vincent Christian Buntinx, Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet
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 ...
2016A 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 ...
2016Diachronic 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 Arbeitsberichte2016Character network analysis of Émile Zola’s Les Rougon-Macquart
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. ...
2015Character Networks and Centrality
A character network represents relations between characters from a text; the relations are based on text proximity, shared scenes/events, quoted speech, etc. Our project sketches a theoretical framework for character network analysis, bringing together nar ...
University of Lausanne2014Analyse 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 ...
2014A 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 ...
2014A social network analysis of Rousseau’s autobiography “Les Confessions”
Frédéric Kaplan, Yannick Rochat, Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet
We propose an analysis of the social network composed of the characters appearing in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiographic Les Confessions, with existence of edges based on co-occurrences. This work consists of twelve volumes, that span over fifty years o ...
2013Bipartite Graphs as Models of Population Structures in Evolutionary Multiplayer Games
By combining evolutionary game theory and graph theory, “games on graphs” study the evolutionary dynamics of frequency-dependent selection in population structures modeled as geographical or social networks. Networks are usually represented by means of uni ...
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