Macroeconomics of small island developing states (SIDS) are characterized by a strong dependence to the access to diverse rents, the evolution of which questions their sustainability. Considering the handicaps of narrow markets, the remoteness and the enclosing, the eco...

In Ancient Greece (Ve-IVe B.C.), professions were already part of people’s daily life. The work of Xenophon is a very substantial and detailed testimony to professions and professionals within the various societies the author has discovered during his life. This study o...

In 1702, the manager of the Opera house, Jean-Nicolas de Francini, transfers to the printer Christophe Ballard his authorisation to print a General collection of the operas performed on the stage of the Académie Royale de Musique since its establishment. In 1703, seven ...

From the Kaohsiung scandal to the release of City of Sadness which filmed the Incident of February 28, 1947, the absolute taboo in Taiwanese modern history before the era of democracy, the Taiwanese society has come a long way. The 1980s were also a golden age for film ...

The site of Liberchies Les Bons-Villers is located in Hainaut, Belgium, in a region now entirely devoted to agriculture. Located on the Roman road which continues to Cologne (Germnay) and the area of the Rhine basin, between Tongeren (Belgium) and Bavay (France), the si...

As lucid observers of their time, Nietzsche, Kafka, and Benjamin also brought to light the secret structure of history and the way it is rooted in human subjectivity. For them, history is a way of orienting oneself in time and beeing related to past and future temporali...

International conferences on the promotion of cultural heritage have recognized the practical and epistemological value of local knowledge and intangible heritage. However, despite this international recognition, their place in school remains marginal. This thesis was i...

The contemporary looting of the terrestrial archaeological heritage in metropolitan France has never been the subject of an exhaustive study. This dissertation, therefore, draws up an assessment, through a singular study, which is based on a mainly archaeological approa...

Word embedding representations generated by neural language models encode rich information about language and the world. In this thesis, we investigate the knowledge about word meaning encoded in embedding representations and propose methods to automatically enhance the...

This dissertation reports computational accounts of resolving word-level polysemy in a lesser-studied language—Korean. Postpositions, which are characterized as multiple form-function mapping and thus polysemous in nature, pose a challenge to automatic analysis and mode...