La masse de données textuelles aujourd'hui disponible permet d'envisager les sciences
sociales sous un jour nouveau, dans la mesure où les textes regorgent d'éléments …

We present an empirical case study that connects psycholinguistics with the field of cultural
evolution, in order to test for the existence of cultural attractors in the evolution of quotations …

In many domains, a latent competition among different conventions determines which one
will come to dominate. One sees such effects in the success of community jargon, of …

In the past few years, there has been a growing interest in detecting quotation families and
in automatically analyzing transformation patterns. However, no work has provided a …

We describe reformulation processes within a large distributed system such as blogspace;
showing how some specific features of public representations may be altered by bloggers …

This thesis investigates innovations, trends, conventions and practices in online social
media. Tackling these problems will give more insight into how their users use these online …

We develop two case studies to show this with short written utterances. The first examines
transformations that quotations undergo as they are propagated online. By connecting data …

S'inscrivant dans un contexte de veille et d'intelligence d'entreprise sur Internet, l'objectif de
cette thèse est d'élaborer des outils et des méthodes permettant d'identifier, analyser …