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Abstract NLP for linguistics, with a brief detour into NLP applications for the humanities and social sciences. Linguistics as a field of application for NLP, in three examples : computational morphology and morphological complexity ; computational …

Abstract Hyperbolic systems in dimension 1 of space play a crucial role in various real-life domains such as navigable rivers, irrigation canals, heat exchangers, chemical reactors, gas pipelines, road traffic, chromatography, and many others. This talk …

Abstract People seem to have an early understanding of the world around them, and the other people in it. Before children can reliably say "ball", "wall", or "Saul", they expect balls not to go through walls, and for Saul to go right for a ball (if …

The Origins of Geometric Symbols since Prehistory: A Language of Thought? Abstract In the Lascaux cave, just below the magnificent drawing of a large deer, is the simple but unmistakable outline of a rectangle. All over the world, since prehistoric times, …

Abstract Philippe Clergeau will present the concept of regenerative urbanism, after recalling the definitions of biodiversity and ecosystems, which are essential to a liveable, sustainable city. Nature-based solutions already permeate architecture, but we …

Abstract Cities are particularly exposed to hydro-climatic hazards, now exacerbated by anthropogenic global warming. As both major sources of greenhouse gas emissions and vulnerable territories, cities are called upon to be drivers of mitigation and …

Abstract This paper examines the future of cities by shifting the focus to the African continent. The aim is to consider African cities as places for exploring new imaginaries and new ways of inhabiting the world. This reflection comes at a crucial time …

Abstract When it comes to building, as with energy, the new doesn't make the old disappear. The extraordinary rise of concrete between 1950 and 2000, far from eradicating other building materials, allowed them to grow : glass of course, steel, wood, but …

Abstract New York, the city of exile for the Surrealists and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, is the capital of the modern, but also the refuge of the archaic. " Ali Baba's cave ", it provides backdoor exits and an escape from the time of …

Abstract For centuries, it was expected that all planetary systems, by virtue of the universality of physical laws, would roughly resemble our own, with small rocky planets on the inside and gas giants on the outside, all on nearly circular, coplanar …

Abstract In low- and middle-income countries, there are many small businesses, and few large ones. How can this be explained ? And how do companies in poor countries operate ? Are they as productive ? Do they face specific …

Abstract After an introduction to the entire course and seminar, the first lecture traced the appearance of control structures in the first programming languages (1945-1965) : assembly languages, where control is expressed by unconditional or conditional …

Abstract Challenges are proposed by public services, companies or scientific laboratories, and are based on real-life problems. Participants submit the results of their classification or prediction algorithms, which are then put into competition via the …

The Monte-Carlo method approximates averages by empirical sums of independent samples, which is equivalent to approximating integrals, potentially in very high dimensions. It is used in physics to simulate systems with a large number of degrees of …