A short description of the French Community of Interest in France working in the mcSquared European project.

1. Mathematical Creativity Squared
Kick-off meeting
Oct 30 – Nov 2, 2013
Athens, Greece (hosted by CTI)
CoI – CoP Examples, prior approaches
Christian Mercat UCBL, Valérie Émin, UCBL (IFÉ – ÉNS-Lyon)
MCSquared (http://mc2-project.eu) is funded by the European Commission under FP7 (Project no. 610467),
Strategic Objective ICT-2013.8.1 “Technologies and scientific foundations in the field of creativity”

2. Lyon Community of Interest
Teachers, PhD students,
software & paper editors
• IREM group
• MMI - ÉNS-Lyon math PhD students
• Aristod - Jean-François Nicaud
• Pôle Édition – Gilles Cohen
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3. A Lightweight Configurable Signal Analysis
Toolset for Multiple Applications
IREM Group
Christoph Lauer, Norbert Reithinger
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
{clauer,bert}@dfki.de
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10 secondary math teachers
and an academic, focused on open
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In this paper we describe a lightweight and highly
configurable toolset for the analysis of sound files. While
there exist numerous solutions we needed a system that is
modular, expandable, that runs on various platforms and
operating systems, and that can be embedded in other
programs. Using Java and its rich library of signal
handling and data visualization components,
SONOGRAM provides us with the flexibility needed for
various projects in the area of data annotation,
visualization, and multi-modal interface implementation.
Currently, seven signal analysis and visualization
algorithms are implemented. Adding new algorithms is
straightforward, and advanced visualizations like three-dimensional
perspectograms can be quickly implemented.
1. INTRODUCTION
For various applications and settings, it is favorable to
have a visualization of the speech signal at hand. There are
various free and commercial systems available that
provide elaborate analyzing capabilities . In our year –long
research in intelligent user-interfaces, however, we
especially felt the need for a visualization tool that
provides the following features to view various aspects of
a speech signal
· Easy integration in various applications on
various platforms
· Rich visualization options for the speech signal
· Easy extensibility to add new analysis modules
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The current available speech analyze toolsets like Praat
from the University of Amsterdam [1] or SpeechStation
from Sensimetrics ( h t tp://www.sens.com / ) lack the plug-in
ability for environments like dialogue systems or
annotations programs, or they are limited to a certain
In this paper we present SONOGRAM, a Java application
that fulfils our needs. Initially it was incorporated in
multimedia annotation tools like ANVIL [4] or the NITE
( h t tp://nite.nis.sdu.dk/ ) NXT workbench. Further
applications are in multimodal dialogues systems like
SmartKom ( h t tp://www.smartkom.or g / ) or Miamm
( h ttp://www.miamm.org / )
Figure 1: The SONOGRAM visible speech main
window
2. THE ARCHITECTURE
In figure 2, the general architecture of SONOGRAM is
shown. The central control module gets input either from
a file interface or through the plug-in interface from the
embedding program. Since SONOGRAM is written in
Java it is able to process all media types that are
accessible through the Java media framework.
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4. MMI – ÉNS-Lyon PhD students
House of Mathematics & Computer
Science (MMI)
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5. epsilonwriter
by Jean-François Nicaud
& Christophe Viudez
Algebraic
direct manipulation, edition
and sharing software.
Aristod
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6. Pôle Éditions
Gilles Cohen
Edition of journals and books linked to
mathematics, for students, teachers
and the general audience.
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7. CoI – CoP Model of description
How to describe and characterize
- a CoI ? Different people & (non unique) roles
- a CoP ?
Its work, its context, its common interests ?
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8. CoI – CoP Model of description
How to describe and characterize
the work of a CoI :
A common description model of
- Resources and boundary objects
- Interactions inside and between
- CoPs
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