PhDone ! in Computational Literary Studies at LaTTiCe lab & École normale supérieure in Paris. I study French genre fiction (1860–1945) using quantitative and network-based approaches. https://jeanbarre.eu/https://bsky.app/profile/jbarre.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbarre.bsky.social/post/3mtsy72lyk22fInterested by a corpus of 19th/early 20th c. French for your research? Here's the French corpus of 11K! novels I tried to curate during my PhD 😅, now live at JOHD, and downloadable on Zenodo! 📄 doi.org/10.5334/johd.597 📦 zenodo.org/records/20233178 https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.59724 Aug 2026 09:23 +0000at://did:plc:kqpsf4tz4md3im3joqdtinga/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtsy72lyk22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbarre.bsky.social/post/3mpu44nsvzc22Small new paper ! 🎉 Genre is a problematic notion in CLS: bibliographically unstable, heterogeneously annotated, yet central to many experiments Our new #NLP4DH paper (ACL 2026) proposes a method to retrieve genre tags automatically in a huge novel archive, from a small seed list only.04 Jul 2026 22:25 +0000at://did:plc:kqpsf4tz4md3im3joqdtinga/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpu44nsvzc22https://bsky.app/profile/jbarre.bsky.social/post/3mnz3eggdrs2uPhDone ! 🎓 Immense gratitude to my jury (including @evelyngius.bsky.social @matthieuletourneux.bsky.social @tedunderwood.com ), my co-directors @tpoibeau.bsky.social & Thomas Conrad, and everyone who supported me along the way ❤️11 Jun 2026 11:04 +0000at://did:plc:kqpsf4tz4md3im3joqdtinga/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnz3eggdrs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbarre.bsky.social/post/3mlnhl4xy2k23Je soutiens mon Doctorat le 5 juin à l'ENS à 14h, salle des Résistants (45 rue d'Ulm) : « Modéliser la littérature de genre. Méthodes computationnelles et évolution des genres dans la fiction de langue française » une aventure qui se termine ! 🎉12 May 2026 09:21 +0000at://did:plc:kqpsf4tz4md3im3joqdtinga/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnhl4xy2k23https://bsky.app/profile/jbarre.bsky.social/post/3mfca23hj3s23New article! "Toward an Ontological Representation of Fictional Characters" by @antoine-bourgois.bsky.social, me, @oseminck.bsky.social & @tpoibeau.bsky.social https://doi.org/10.1017/chr.2026.10025 Nothing fancy here — only sweat & tears. 🧵20 Feb 2026 13:35 +0000at://did:plc:kqpsf4tz4md3im3joqdtinga/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfca23hj3s23