Damon Mayaffre, Céline Poudat, Laurent Vanni, Véronique Magri, Peter Follette
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Damon Mayaffre; Céline Poudat; Laurent Vanni; Véronique Magri; Peter Follette. JADT 2016 - Statistical Analysis of Textual Data, Jun 2016, Nice, France. 1-2, Presse de FacImprimeur, 402/412 p., 2016, JADT 2016 - Statistical Analysis of Textual Data, 978-2-7466-9067-7
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2016
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Held every other year since 1990, the JADT brings together 150 to 200 researchers involved in the automatic and statistical processing of textual data. The meeting provides a forum in which participants can present their results, compare existing tools, and exchange with colleagues on their practical and methodological experiences. Occurring within the framework of the Digital Humanities, from text mining to the textual analysis of big data, the 13th JADT -- JADT 2016 – have been held in Nice, France from June 7 to 10, 2016. Statisticians, linguists, computer scientists, discourse analysis specialists, sociologists, historians working on digital archives, and specialists in lexicography and text mining came together for the meeting on the Mediterranean coast, within the prestigious locales of the University of the Côte d’Azur and the Lerins Islands off of Cannes.
36th International GERAS Conference, GERAS, Mar 2015, Bordeaux, France
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2015
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Patents represent a critically important research genre in numerous scientific and technological fields, yet their rhetorical and other linguistic features remain underexplored relative to those of the related and much more extensively studied research article. While patents share many common elements with research articles, and sometimes even cover the exact same scientific discoveries as articles, they differ from articles in substantial ways, largely due to differences in their communicative purposes, their intended readerships, and the presence of significant legal constraints that govern many aspects of patent construction. Here, I present a comparative analysis of a corpus containing pairs of U.S. patents and published research articles covering equivalent scientific discoveries in the area of biotechnology. For this analysis, I have focused on the “Background of the Invention” section of the patents and the Introduction section of the research articles. Research article Introductions are perhaps the most widely studied of all sections of IMRAD-type articles, often displaying a rhetorical structure as described by Swales’s CARS model (Swales, 1990, 2004). While the Background section of patents may address similar scientific elements as article Introductions and may thus be expected to include aspects of the CARS model, the two sections often show fundamentally differences, including with respect to their rhetorical structures, the way in which cited work is addressed, and hedging. These differences, and their functional relations to the divergent communicative purposes of each genre, will be addressed.
[Rapport de recherche] Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan; Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis. 2014
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2014
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Le groupe de travail Science & Academia du GERAS (www.geras.fr) présente ici le fruit d'une réflexion collective sur les « bonnes pratiques » d'enseignement de l'anglais scientifique écrit en France. En mettant ces recommandations à la disposition des acteurs universitaires en France et ailleurs, nous espérons faciliter le travail des enseignants du secteur LANSAD à qui l'on demande de former les étudiants à la rédaction scientifique en anglais, et promouvoir la diffusion d'une « sagesse commune » en la matière.
Rho G-proteins are critical for polarized growth, yet little is known about the dynamics of their activation during fungal filamentous growth. We first investigated the roles of Rho1 and Rho2 during Candida albicans filamentous growth. Our results show that Rho1 is required for invasive filamentous growth and that Rho2 is not functionally redundant with Rho1. Using fluorescent reporters, we examined the dynamics of the active form of Rho1 and Cdc42 during initiation and maintenance of hyphal growth. Quantitative analyses indicated that the distribution, but not the level, of these active G-proteins is altered during initial polarization upon germ tube emergence. A comparison of the dynamics of these active G-proteins during budding and hyphal growth indicates that a higher concentration of active Cdc42 was recruited to the germ tube tip than to the bud tip. During hyphal elongation, active Cdc42 remained tightly restricted to the hyphal tip, whereas active Rho1 was broadly associated with the apex and subsequently recruited to the cell division site. Furthermore, our data suggest that phosphoinositide-bis-phosphates are critical to stabilize active Rho1 at the growth site. Together, our results point towards different regulation of Cdc42 and Rho1 activity during initiation and maintenance of filamentous growth.
Rho G-proteins are critical for polarized growth, yet little is known about the dynamics of their activation during fungal filamentous growth. We first investigated the roles of Rho1 and Rho2 during Candida albicans filamentous growth. Our results show that Rho1 is required for invasive filamentous growth and that Rho2 is not functionally redundant with Rho1. Using fluorescent reporters, we examined the dynamics of the active form of Rho1 and Cdc42 during initiation and maintenance of hyphal growth. Quantitative analyses indicated that the distribution, but not the level, of these active G-proteins is altered during initial polarization upon germ tube emergence. A comparison of the dynamics of these active G-proteins during budding and hyphal growth indicates that a higher concentration of active Cdc42 was recruited to the germ tube tip than to the bud tip. During hyphal elongation, active Cdc42 remained tightly restricted to the hyphal tip, whereas active Rho1 was broadly associated with the apex and subsequently recruited to the cell division site. Furthermore, our data suggest that phosphoinositide-bis-phosphates are critical to stabilize active Rho1 at the growth site. Together, our results point towards different regulation of Cdc42 and Rho1 activity during initiation and maintenance of filamentous growth.
Alex Boulton, Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet, Shirley Carter-Thomas. Corpus-Informed Research and Learning in ESP: Issues and Applications, John Benjamins, pp.167-191, 2012