Curriculum Vitae

Professor of Management and Business Admin., University of Savoie, Annecy, France. Dean of the Faculty for Economics, Management and Marketing, University of Savoie. Director of GEREG (Study group for research in business and administration), France. Scientific Consultant for Sphinx Development, Seynod, France.

Qualifications and publications

• Bachelor of Business Administration, HEC (Institute of Advanced Business Studies, Paris (1970).
• Doctor of Administrative Sciences, HEC, Paris (1977).
• Author of more than 40 publications in the fields of. operational research, decision making, information systems and data analysis.
• Author of the book: "Surveys and Data Analysis". Vuibert, Paris 1990.
• Co-author of the Sphinx software range.

• Assistant, then Senior Lecturer at the IUT (Technical Institute), Annecy (1973-1991) Director of Research at LAMSADE (Laboratory for the Analysis and Modelling of Decision Making Systems), Paris.
• Director of Research at ESA (Management School), Grenoble, France (1981 to 1991). University Professor and Director of the KT of Annecy (1 991-199 5).
• Dean of UFR CVEG (Faculty for Economics, Management and Marketing at the University of Savoie) since 1995.

Monitoring Technological and Bibliographical Information Sources via Textual Data Analysis: the LEXICA System.

Parallel session B.3 and Demonstration
(Parallel Session C)

With the ever increasing amount of data directly accessible by end-users one needs to find new ways of reviewing and managing vast quantities of textual information.

The techniques of lexical analysis can extend the effectiveness of research by aiding the rapid reading and interpretation of large texts via lexical approximation and textual data analysis. By adding interactive navigation systems to the power of statistical analysis, one can save a great deal of time, without sacrificing the quality and detail of the information obtained. By making clear the structure and form of the database, the computer can provide you with a summary from which you can determine focused and specific analyses.

These methods will be illustrated by means of the LEXICA program. This package combines, within a hyper-text environment, the techniques of lexical analysis (generation of the lexicon, search for repeated segments, calculation of specificities, etc.) with those of syntax analysis (lemmatisation) and statistical analysis (factor analysis, classification, etc.). Two example analyses will be performed to demonstrate these capabilities.

The first example will indicate strategies which could be used within the chemical industry, by examining a database of patents. The second will involve the analysis of articles on the theme of ethics over the past 20 years, in order to indicate the evolution of the concept.

These two demonstrations will enable an appreciation of the relevance and effectiveness of the methods proposed. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of future developments, including notably, the exploitation of an automatic thesaurus function.

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