La classification mathématique des textes : un outil d'assistance à la lecture et à l'analyse de textes philosophiques

Mathematical text classifiers can serve many purposes in the field of computer-assisted reading and analysis of text (CARAT). More than ever, with the large amount of text available in digital format such as CD-Roms, encyclopaedia, etc., the use of text classifiers has become an essential t ool i n the field o f natural l anguage information processing technologies to help the reader discover information found in the text. The recent researches are revealing many different uses s temming from the mathematical classification research field. Besides lexical analysis or automatic generation of hypertext links, this recent technology can be use in thematic analysis knowledge e xtraction. In this paper, we shall present an illustration of thematic analysis from a mathematical text classifier applied on Descartes's philosophical text