Publications des membres du CultureLab - Grands Programmes de Recherche-Culture Lab

Nuria Arqués León, Florian Cafiero, X. Tibau Alberdi, P. Tarragó Navarra & Grégoire Mallard. [accepted]. “DiploBERT: A Domain-Specific Transformer Encoder for Diplomatic Text Understanding.” European Association for Digital Humanities Conference (EADH 2026).

Donghan Bian, Marie Puren & Florian Cafiero. “How to Efficiently Explore Noisy Historical Data? Leveraging Corpus Pre-Targeting to Enhance Graph-based RAG.” Proceedings of the 10th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2026), 241–250.

Donghan Bian, Marie Puren & Florian Cafiero. “Parliamentary Seizure of Foreign Affairs and League-Centered Multilateral Repertoires in Interwar France (1929–1939).” Digital Humanities 2026 (DH 2026), Daejeon.

Donghan Bian, Marie Puren & Florian Cafiero. [accepted]. “TRACE: Accountable Agentic Retrieval for Source Discovery in Digital Archives.” Proceedings of the 35th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2026).

Antoine Bourgois, Jean Barré, Olga Seminck & Thierry Poibeau. "Toward an Ontological Representation of Fictional Characters." Computational Humanities Research. https://doi.org/10.1017/chr.2026.10025.

Antoine Bourgois, Olga Seminck & Thierry Poibeau. "Closing the Gap at CRAC 2026: Two-Stage Adaptation for LLM-Based Multilingual Coreference Resolution." Proceedings of the 2nd Joint Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, Context and Document-Level Inferences and Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CODI-CRAC 2026), 167-183.

Florian Cafiero & Alexandre Lionnet. “Des émotions au fil du récit : fabula, un package pour analyser les textes francophones par Transformers.” Actes de la Conférence Humanistica 2026, 72–78.

Florian Cafiero & Grégoire Mallard. “Hybrid Metadata Extraction from League of Nations Index Cards: From Feasibility Study to Archival System Integration.” DCMI 2026 — International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications. Project Report.

Jean-Baptiste Camps, Julien Randon-Furling & Ulysse Godreau. "On the Transmission of Texts: Written Cultures as Complex Systems." PNAS Nexus 5(7). https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag207.

Mathieu Dehouck, Olga Seminck, Noé Durandard, Yoann Dupont & Marine Delaborde. "Lattice at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Why Did the Prompt Engineer Break up
with their LLM? Because Zero-Shot Was Zero-Fun". Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2026), 849-861.

Simon Gabay, Florian Cafiero & Jean-Luc Falcone [accepted]. “A Gueuloir of One’s Own: Computing the Acoustic Signature of Flaubert.” Computational Humanities Research, Cambridge University Press.

Eero Hyvönen, Petri Leskinen, Alexandre Lionnet, Blandine Blukacz-Louisfert, Pierre-Étienne Bourneuf, Davide Rodogno, Grégoire Mallard & Florian Cafiero. “Linked Open Data Approach to Study the Assembly Minutes of International Organizations and Their Underlying Prosopography in the Real World Context.” Proceedings of Digital Humanities 2026 (DH 2026).

Eero Hyvönen, Petri Leskinen, Grégoire Mallard, Pierre-Étienne Bourneuf, Alexandre Lionnet, Blandine Blukacz-Louisfert, Davide Rodogno & Florian Cafiero. [accepted]. “Minutes of Multilateralism on the Semantic Web – League of Nations Sampo (1920–1946) Portal for Digital Humanities Research.” The Semantic Web — ESWC 2026 Satellite Events.

Alexey Koshevoy, Marie Hallo, Rowan Hall Maudslay & Olivier Morin. "Short Words Are More Likely to Refer to Multiple Meanings across 192 Language Families." Journal of Language Evolution 11: lzag002. https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzag002.

Alexey Koshevoy, Oleg Sobchuk & Olivier Morin. "Slovotvir: Grassroots Reform of the Ukrainian Language Reveals the Role of Drift and Selection in Language Change." PNAS Nexus 5(9): pgag258. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag258.

Francis Kulumba, Wissam Antoun, Guillaume Vimont, Laurent Romary & Florian Cafiero. [accepted]. “HALvest-Contrastive: Retrieval-Like Authorship Attribution with Patch-Level Late Interaction.” Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026).

Francis Kulumba, Guillaume Vimont, Laurent Romary & Florian Cafiero. “Where Does Authorship Signal Emerge in Encoder-Based Language Models?”. Proceedings of BlackboxNLP 2026: The Ninth Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP (EMNLP 2026).

Petri Leskinen, Eero Hyvönen, Alexandre Lionnet, Blandine Blukacz-Louisfert, Pierre-Étienne Bourneuf, Davide Rodogno, Grégoire Mallard & Florian Cafiero. “A Linked Open Data Service and Semantic Portal to Study the Assembly Minutes and Prosopography of the League of Nations (1920–1946).” The Semantic Web — 23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2026), Proceedings, Springer, 3–20.

Alexandre Lionnet & Florian Cafiero. "Never Care for What They Say ? Platform vs Genre Rules in Online Horror Narratives (2007–2024)." Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities (NLP4DH), 346-354.

Olivier Mascaro, Adeline Depierreux, Ninon Peysson & Olivier Morin. [accepted]. "Elcos Are Common, Ajajatas Are Weird: Manner Implicatures Guide the Interpretation of Unfamiliar Words for French Children and for Adults in 18 Languages." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 155(8), 1905-1920. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001972

Rowan Hall Maudslay & Francis Bond. "Cygnet: Refactoring the Open Multilingual Wordnet." Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), 7905–7917.

Marius Mercier, Olivier Morin, Hugo Mercier & Tadeg Quillien. "Who Knows What? Bayesian Competence Inference Guides Knowledge Attribution and Information Search." Cognition 273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2026.106533.

Théo Moins, Brenna Hensley, Florian Cafiero, Jean-Baptiste Camps, Lilla Conte, Émilie Guidi, Katarzyna Kapitan, Carolina Macedo, Cécile Vermaas & Chahan Vidal-Gorène. [accepted]. “MEDUSA: A Curriculum-Based Vision-Language Framework for Multilingual Medieval Handwritten Text Recognition.” 8th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP 2026), ICDAR 2026.

Théo Moins, Florian Cafiero, Jean-Baptiste Camps, Émilie Guidi, Lilla Conte, Brenna Hensley, Katarzyna Kapitan, Carolina Macedo, Paola Peratello, Cécile Vermaas & Chahan Vidal-Gorène. “MEDUSA 0.1: Medieval European Documents Unified System for Automated Text Recognition — System Report for the ICDAR 2026 Competition on Multilingual Medieval Handwritten Text Recognition.” Preprint.

Olivier Morin. "Children's Peer Culture and the 'Selection for Proliferation' Hypothesis." The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 49: e243. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X25101969.

Olivier Morin. "The Pros and Cons of Reverting to Methodological Individualism." The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 49: e304. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X25104329.

Marie Puren, Donghan Bian, Aurélien Pellet, Julien Perez & Florian Cafiero. “Aligner méthode historique et RAG : transformer un assistant conversationnel en chaîne de preuve auditable et discutable.” Actes de la Conférence Humanistica 2026, 1–9.

Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Bastien Kindt & Florian Cafiero. “Under-resourced studies of under-resourced languages: lemmatization and POS-tagging with LLM annotators for Historical Armenian, Georgian, Greek and Syriac.” Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026), 324–334.

Yaelle Zribi, Florian Cafiero, Vincent Lépinay & Chahan Vidal-Gorène. "Timing in Stand-Up Comedy: Text, Audio, Laughter, Kinesics (TIC-TALK): Pipeline and Database for the Multimodal Study of Comedic Timing." Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2026), 29-38.