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Describes the use of a pitch visualization software in a pronunciation course in French as a second language. Outlines the software's characteristics and explains the methodological and pedagogical framework of the experiment. (Author/VWL)

Describes "l'autodictionnaire," a computer program created to help language learners enrich their vocabulary through the use of an electronic, modifiable dictionary. (SR)

A French curriculum development and research project at Erindale College (Canada), established in 1985, studies and initiates incorporation of computer technology into the University of Toronto French program. Specific objectives include evaluation and adaptation of existing software, development of an undergraduate course in computer applications in French studies, and software creation. (17 references) (Author/MSE)

A discussion of intonation instruction in second-language teaching looks at the role, objectives, and scope of such instruction; the tools teachers need to accomplish it (background in theory, practical guidelines, a method, appropriate research, and equipment); and the need for and possible design of related software. (MSE)

Described are problems of the teacher's management of computer use during the learning process and student acquisition of new knowledge that can be transferred to situations outside the software environment. Choices made to address these problems are illustrated as students learn axial symmetry using the microworld Cabri-gomtre. (MDH)

Discussion of French language planning focuses on two different roles: official, cherished language of France and international language subject to outside influence. Three areas of concern are discussed: borrowing from English; lexical variation outside France; and influence of computer science on language, particularly the use of spell-checking and text-editing. (MSE)

Aspects and applications of word processing in the language classroom are examined, including software structure, keyboard and mouse use, advantages over print media for writing instruction, and possibilities for creating tables of contents, indexes, and chapters. A brief bibliography is included. (MSE)

Describes a French project entitled "Lecticiel," jointly undertaken by specialists in reading, computer programing, and second language instruction to integrate these disciplines and provide assistance for students learning to read French as a foreign language. (MSE)

Machine translation has been criticized for its inability to provide language style, but for specialized or technical texts, of which there are increasing numbers, machine translation with its obligatory post-editing may be effective, and the "style" of these translations may be a reflection of the error patterns caught in post-editing. (MSE)

How does a computer analyze the appropriateness of a language student's response? Issues arising in the development and use of language-learning software are discussed. (MSE)

Two French computer software packages that can be of assistance in teaching French-as-a-Second-Language are described and discussed. One, an authoring aid, contains the format for a series of dialogues and comprehension questions. The other allows the production and manipulation of databases and texts. (MSE)

The computer's potential in second language teaching is compared with the reality of commercial programs and teacher training in an effort to separate beliefs from facts. It is concluded that based on recent developments, the computer is about to occupy its rightful place in language teaching. (Author/MSE)

Cette leçon vous apprendra comment entrer des commandes dans une interface en ligne de commande, plutôt qu’à travers une interface graphique. Les interfaces en ligne de commande présentent des avantages pour les utilisateurs qui ont besoin de plus de précision dans leur travail. Elles permettent de détailler le lancement de certains programmes, en autorisant l’ajout d’argument pour spécifier exactement la façon dont vous voulez que votre programme se lance. De plus, il est possible de les automatiser facilement en créant des scripts, qui peuvent être considérés comme des recettes (une suite d’instructions précises) reposant sur des commandes au format textuel.

Cette leçon présente différents indicateurs de réseau et la manière de les interpréter lorsque l’on travaille avec des données relationnelles en sciences humaines et sociales. Vous apprendrez à utiliser la bibliothèque Python NetworkX pour calculer et interpréter ces indicateurs.

This article discusses the challenges of printing TEI XML data sets, and highlights a useful diagnostic value of PDF export for data quality. PDF output, indeed, renders only a part of the encoded information, but it can expose problems pertaining to the semantic accuracy and consistency, syntactic compliance, and completeness of the data. The uncovered problems are presented as possessing three dimensions: internal (the compliance of XML code with data models and schemata), external (the consistency of the print output in rendering the original), and contextual (arising from the interaction of XML with the transformation scenarios). These dimensions help to provide the definition of an error in the context of scholarly digital editions—both retro-digitized and originally digital. The article examines the extended skill set required of quality assurance specialists in social sciences and humanities (SSH) as compared to their industrial counterparts. It also places PDF production within the Agile testing framework, which aims to capture and eliminate defects in the early stages of product development.

Omeka.net permet de créer un site web facilement afin de valoriser une collection de contenus. Cette leçon explique comment créer un site Omeka, le configurer, y ajouter des extensions et des contenus, et organiser ces contenus en collections.

Cette leçon permet de prendre en main le logiciel nodegoat pour construire une base de données relationnelle dans le cadre d’une recherche en sciences humaines.

Dans cette leçon, nous allons implémenter l’algorithme découvert dans la leçon « Du HTML à une liste de mots, partie 1 », afin d’apprendre à découper une chaine de caractères en une liste de mots.

Cette leçon montre comment analyser rapidement de grands jeux de données tabulaires, pour rendre la recherche plus rapide et plus efficace.

In this article we analyze the results obtained in a survey on the use of the Text Encoding Initiative for Digital Humanities projects in Spanish that was conducted in early 2022 within the project “Communicating the Text Encoding Initiative to a Multilingual User Community” funded by the A. Mellon Foundation. The main objectives of our analysis are to understand who conforms the TEI user community in the Spanish-speaking world or in Spanish text-related initiatives, what types of TEI-related academic training is offered today, how and for what purposes this type of text encoding is used, and what are the existing resources for teaching and learning.

This article proposes that the processes involved in digital editing create a space for collaboration and experimentation that can be useful in the context of teaching Spanish and Hispanic letters and cultures. It considers digital editing as a way to partly address the challenges that language programs are experiencing in the U.S. academy, discusses the advantages that digital editing offers students, and outlines ways to incorporate editorial projects into various teaching situations. Reflecting on their experiences at the University of North Florida, the authors seek to suggest some starting points for others who seek to explore the pedagogical possibilities of the digital transmission of Hispanic texts.

Studies on the Prussian writer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and editions of his work are abundant. Among the many outstanding chapters of his famous journey through the American tropics, the two visits to Cuba (1800–1801/1804) stand out as a particular case. To this day very few original documents are known about his actual visits, the colonial sources that informed him and the history of his reception. This is due, in large part, to the fact that documentary sources are difficult to access. To overcome this difficulty, the Project Humboldt Digital was born in 2019, a cooperation project carried out between Havana and Berlin, whose main objective is to publish a collection of texts related to Humboldt’s stay in Cuba. In this article we aim to explain how our digital scholarly editions have been created from a methodological point of view. After outlining the origins, we present the workflow developed between the Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities to digitize, describe, publish, edit and preserve in digital format a collection of previously selected texts. Also, we describe the model of data representation in TEI format, as well as the tools employed to encode and publish the editions. Finally, we analyze the first editorial results obtained and offer some conclusions on the main challenges faced.

In this article I present a digital edition project of a series of fragments of the Castilian poem known as Libro de Alexandre. Firstly, I explain the reasons for the editorial proposal, which does not have as goal the publishing of a new complete critical text, but a selection of fragments related to the topic of my doctoral research, the use of the ekphrasis in the poem. Secondly, I describe the process of semantic enrichment of the text, the XML-TEI encoding, and the minimal computing approach. Furthermore, this article aims to offer a reflection on the need to promote the use of open software in Digital Scholarly Edition projects, especially those that take place in the Global South.

This paper analyzes different projects for the digital edition of letters in Spanish that use TEI markup, showing their specificity regarding other epistolary projects at global scale. I describe different practices, both in the metadata modeling and textual annotations. I evaluate how these methodologies, anchored in the disciplines of the digital humanities, contribute to the knowledge of epistolary texts in their multiple dimensions, in particular their reticular structure.

In certain circumstances, data prepared by projects cannot be published openly. In the last decades different projects have published derived data (also called extracted features) to avoid this problem. In this article, we argue in favor of TEI as a format for this task, as it favors compliance with the FAIR principles. Furthermore, we present different options, discuss their advantages and disadvantages and show concrete applications to several projects with Spanish texts (CORDE, novels of the Silver Age and texts by Picasso).

Compter les occurrences de mots spécifiques dans une liste peut constituer une source de données utiles. Cette leçon vous apprendra comment compter ces occurrences facilement en Python.

This article describes a proposal for elements of ruby glossing that was incorporated into the TEI Guidelines release 4.2.0, which was codenamed “Ruby.” The Japanese writing system is one of the most complex writing systems in the world, mixing three scripts. The system can also be described as complex in terms of text linearity: the ruby gloss, originally developed from vernacular glosses to Classical Chinese texts, is now a device for presenting a parallel text alongside the main text. Ruby, or rubi, or furigana, can be used to give clues about phonation as well as to present another reading of the text, which sometimes can be an essential part of the text. Such a textual structure requires another layer of semantics besides the existing set of vocabulary, such as , (or ) and . Ruby glosses can also be double-sided. This note discusses the encoding of examples attested in real texts using proposed elements (, , and ), and also considers Taiwanese bopomofo, a related gloss form.

Un programme informatique peut vite devenir un très long fichier et ainsi devenir peu commode à maintenir, notamment quand aucune stratégie n’a été mise en place afin de contrôler cette complexité. Cette leçon sera l’occasion de vous expliquer comment réutiliser des parties de votre code à l’aide de l’écriture de fonctions, mais aussi comment organiser un programme en modules, de manière à rendre celui-ci plus concis et plus facile à débugger.

Dans cette leçon en deux parties, nous allons utiliser les compétences acquises dans la leçon « Télécharger des pages web avec Python », et voir comment supprimer les balises HTML de la page de la transcription du procès-verbal de Benjamin Bowsey en 1780 dans le but de créer un texte propre et réutilisable. Nous réaliserons cette tâche en utilisant les opérateurs et méthodes de chaines de caractères propres à Python, ainsi que nos compétences relatives à la lecture attentive. Nous introduirons ensuite les concepts de boucles et d’instructions conditionnelles afin de répéter notre processus de traitement et de tester certaines conditions nous permettant de séparer le contenu des balises HTML. Pour finir, nous convertirons les données obtenues et enregistrées sous la forme d’un texte sans balises HTML en une liste de mots qui pourra par la suite être triée, indexée et investie lors d’analyses statistiques.

Ce tutoriel a pour but de décrire les bonnes pratiques pour la création d’ensembles de données et la spécialisation des modèles en fonction d’un projet HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) ou OCR (Optical Character Recognition) sur des documents qui n’utilisent pas l’alphabet latin et donc pour lesquels il n’existe pas ou très peu de données d’entraînement déjà disponibles. Le tutoriel a ainsi pour but de montrer des approches de minimal computing (ou d’investissement technique minimal) pour l’analyse de collections numériques à grande échelle pour des langues peu dotées. Notre tutoriel se concentrera sur un exemple en grec ancien, puis proposera une ouverture sur le traitement d’écritures arabes maghrébines manuscrites.

This paper presents the Distributed Text Service (DTS) API Specification, a community-built effort to facilitate the publication and consumption of texts and their structures as Linked Data. DTS was designed to be as generic as possible, providing simple operations for navigating collections, navigating within a text, and retrieving textual content. While the DTS API uses JSON-LD as the serialization format for non-textual data (e.g., descriptive metadata), TEI XML was chosen as the minimum required format for textual data served by the API in order to guarantee the interoperability of data published by DTS-compliant repositories. This paper describes the DTS API specifications by means of real-world examples, discusses the key design choices that were made, and concludes by providing a list of existing repositories and libraries that support DTS.