Projet CASCADE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This network aims to train early-stage researchers to develop and apply innovative methodologies for Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments (CASCADE), i.e. to identify, analyse and interrogate how meaning is expressed in language in diverse contexts, with a shared focus on the impact of time (diachronic text analytics).  CASCADE responds to a skills deficit within the academic, public and commercial sectors: the need for people able to retrieve, critically evaluate and make better use of the large volumes of textual data that characterise our contemporary information society (the ‘data deluge’). The consortium is a collaboration of some of Europe’s world-leading universities and companies from the United Kingdom, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, and Germany.  The overall training approach will consist of beneficiaries 'matching up' to host and support 10 individual research projects, in addition to 10 secondments, and reinforced by a programme of network-wide Training Camps and Research Conventions. The key deliverables from each research project, in addition to the anticipated doctoral theses for ESRs 1 to 10, will include 12 co-authored articles for experts, Wikipedia articles for a general audience, and new software and algorithms.  The network's unique selling point for potential researchers is its emphasis on computational linguistics and humanities scholarship as skills that bring value and competitive edge to organisations concerned with semantically-aware information retrieval. These organisations might be academic or commercial, involved in early stage R&D (methods development) or early adoption of new methods (methods application).

Mots clés : diachronic text analysis, distributional semantics, concept modelling, machine learning, history of ideas, data economy, large text datasets

Participants :
- Vienna Centre for Societal Security (Autriche) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Netherlands eScience Center (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Cologne (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Académie royale néerlandaise des arts et des sciences (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- University College Dublin (Irlande) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- James hallam ltd (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- KU Leuven (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 525240.0 €
- University College Cork (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 572976.0 €
- Lexical computing ltd (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Sheffield (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Glasgow (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Helsinki (Finlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 572976.0 €
- Université de la Sarre (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 521078.4 €