Les Remarques de Marolles dans ses traductions en prose de l’Énéide : un regard de Moderne sur une œuvre antique ?

S’il est connu, et parfois décrié par ses contemporains, pour être un traducteur prolifique de poètes latins, l’abbé de Marolles (1600-1681) n’a encore à son actif que la mise en français de Lucain lorsqu’il publie, en 1649, une première traduction en prose de l’Énéide, suivie des Bucoliques et des Géorgiques. Durant plus de vingt ans, il n’a de cesse de remettre l’œuvre de Virgile sur le métier. Amendant son premier travail, dont il augmente le volume des Remarques, il fait paraître une seco..

CORE: A Few-Shot Company Relation Classification Dataset for Robust Domain Adaptation

We introduce CORE, a dataset for few-shot relation classification (RC) focused on company relations and business entities. CORE includes 4,708 instances of 12 relation types with corresponding textual evidence extracted from company Wikipedia pages. Company names and business entities pose a challenge for few-shot RC models due to the rich and diverse information associated with them. For example, a company name may represent the legal entity, products, people, or business divisions depending on the context. Therefore, deriving the relation type between entities is highly dependent on textual context. To evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art RC models on the CORE dataset, we conduct experiments in the few-shot domain adaptation setting. Our results reveal substantial performance gaps, confirming that models trained on different domains struggle to adapt to CORE. Interestingly, we find that models trained on CORE showcase improved out-of-domain performance, which highlights the importance of high-quality data for robust domain adaptation. Specifically, the information richness embedded in business entities allows models to focus on contextual nuances, reducing their reliance on superficial clues such as relation-specific verbs. In addition to the dataset, we provide relevant code snippets to facilitate reproducibility and encourage further research in the field.Comment: Accepted to EMNLP 2023 main conferenc

Passive parametric macromodeling by using Sylvester state-space realizations

A judicious choice of the state-space realization is required in order to account for the assumed smoothness of the state-space matrices with respect to the design parameters. The direct parameterization of poles and residues may be not appropriate, due to their possible non-smooth behavior with respect to design parameters. This is avoided in the proposed technique, by converting the pole-residue description to a Sylvester description which is computed for each root macromodel. This technique is used in combination with suitable parameterizing schemes for interpolating a set of state-space matrices, and hence the poles and residues indirectly, in order to build accurate parametric macromodels. The key features of the present approach are first the choice of a proper pivot matrix and second, finding a well-conditioned solution of a Sylvester equation. Stability and passivity are guaranteed by construction over the design space of interest. Pertinent numerical examples validate the proposed Sylvester technique for parametric macromodeling

Model reduction for LPV systems based on approximate modal decomposition

The paper presents a novel model order reduction technique for large-scale linear parameter varying (LPV) systems. The approach is based on decoupling the original dynamics into smaller dimensional LPV subsystems that can be independently reduced by parameter varying reduction methods. The decomposition starts with the construction of a modal transformation that separates the modal subsystems. Hierarchical clustering is applied then to collect the dynamically similar modal subsystems into larger groups. The resulting parameter varying subsystems are then independently reduced. This approach substantially differs from most of the previously proposed LPV model reduction techniques, since it performs manipulations on the LPV model itself, instead of on a set of linear time-invariant (LTI) models defined at fixed scheduling parameter values. Therefore the interpolation, which is often a challenging part in reduction techniques, is inherently solved. The applicability of the developed algorithm is thoroughly investigated and demonstrated by numerical case studies

Le Comte d’Essex de Claude Boyer : Élisabeth ou la confusion des rôles

L’histoire du Comte d’Essex a donné lieu en France à trois tragédies ; deux d’entre elles, écrites respectivement par Thomas Corneille et Claude Boyer, sont jouées à quelques semaines d’intervalle en 1678. Elles n’offrent pas pour autant, le même traitement du sujet. Tout en conférant à sa pièce une tonalité galante, Boyer s’attache à proposer une réflexion sur l’exercice du pouvoir politique et judicaire à travers le personnage complexe d’Élisabeth : souveraine confondant ses rôles d’amante et de reine, elle glisse plus ou moins consciemment vers la tyrannie.In France, the story of the Earl of Essex inspired three tragedies. Two of them, written respectively by Thomas Corneille and Claude Boyer, were performed in 1678, in the course of only a few weeks. However, the way the topic was dealt with is different in the two plays. Even though Boyer’s play can be considered a courtly work, he also attempted a reflection on the practice of political and judicial power through the complex character of Elisabeth : as a sovereign mistaking her two roles as a mistress and as a queen, she more or less consciously heads towards tyranny

Le Comte d’Essex de Claude Boyer : Élisabeth ou la confusion des rôles

In France, the story of the Earl of Essex inspired three tragedies. Two of them, written respectively by Thomas Corneille and Claude Boyer, were performed in 1678, in the course of only a few weeks. However, the way the topic was dealt with is different in the two plays. Even though Boyer’s play can be considered a courtly work, he also attempted a reflection on the practice of political and judicial power through the complex character of Elisabeth : as a sovereign mistaking her two roles as a mistress and as a queen, she more or less consciously heads towards tyranny