Concept
Ferdinand de Saussure
Publications associées (16)
Science on the Summit: Exploring Scientific Tourism Through the Lens of Eighteenth Century Mountain Ascents
Jérôme Baudry, Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu, Simon François Dumas Primbault
This contribution argues that a particular scientific context made summits a place of interest for eighteenth-century travelers. This development is connected to two particular scientific practices. First, the challenges raised by making the barometer into ...
2022Experimental History and the History of Experience: Reconstructing the Scientific Expeditions of the 1770s to Mont Buet
On September 20, 1770, the brothers Jean-André and Guillaume-Antoine Deluc, two scientists from Geneva, finally reached the summit of Mont Buet (3096m) after two unsuccessful attempts. From this vantage point overlooking the Alps and Mont Blanc, they perfo ...
2022Combining Visual and Textual Features for Semantic Segmentation of Historical Newspapers
Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Sofia Ares Oliveira, Raphaël Barman
The massive amounts of digitized historical documents acquired over the last decades naturally lend themselves to automatic processing and exploration. Research work seeking to automatically process facsimiles and extract information thereby are multiplyin ...
2021Conception d'une structure à parois minces en béton textile
Le béton textile est un nouveau matériau qui combine les propriétés d’une armature non-métallique coulés dans une matrice à base de ciment à haute résistance. C’est un matériau performant tant pour ses qualités structurelles qu’en terme d’application en dé ...
2020Analyse multi-échelle de n-grammes sur 200 années d'archives de presse
The recent availability of large corpora of digitized texts over several centuries opens the way to new forms of studies on the evolution of languages. In this thesis, we study a corpus of 4 million press articles covering a period of 200 years. The thesis ...
EPFL2017PAoS Markers: Trajectory Analysis of Selective Phonological Posteriors for Assessment of Progressive Apraxia of Speech
Progressive apraxia of Speech (PAoS) is a progressive motor speech disorder associated with neurodegenerative disease causing impairment of phonetic encoding and motor speech planning. Clinical observation and acoustic studies show that duration analysis p ...
2016Habitat bioclimatique alpin
Ces dernières décennies, l'économie des régions alpines en Suisse a très largement profité d'un boom immobilier lié principalement aux résidences secondaires. Ce modèle est aujourd'hui remis en question, ce qui risque bien d'amener la plupart des régions a ...
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