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Mathieu Riviere

First-year MA student in “Digital and Computational Humanities” — Ecole nationale des chartes · Universite PSL

Email: mathieu.riviere@chartes.psl.eu

Website: https://icimathieu.github.io/

GitHub: https://github.com/icimathieu

Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/icimathieu

Profile

A digital humanities student, I work on applying computational methods to contemporary history: exploiting digitized (and born-digital) sources and natural language processing. My thesis in the history of science focuses on the “pasteurization” of metropolitan France (1870-1914) and brings together Pasteurians, scientific journals, the press, and parliamentarians under the Third Republic; it relies on scraping, OCR, corpus structuring, annotation, RAG, and classification.

Outlook: History agregation, then a PhD with a strong digital and computational component.

Education

Ecole nationale des chartes, Ecole normale superieure & Universite PSL — MA in “Digital and Computational Humanities” (2025 – present) Research seminars in history and philosophy (EHESS, ENS); practical digital humanities classes (ENC); geography lectures (Sorbonne). Member of the CartaData junior enterprise.
Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne — BA in History, highest honors (2022 – 2025) Additional courses in history and computer science; research seminars in history and philosophy; auditing political science courses; evening classes at the Louvre.
Lycee Saint-Louis (Paris 6e) — CPGE PCSI (2021 – 2022) — 23rd / 46.

Research experience

Research internship — named-entity recognition (NER)

May – December 2026 — ANR project DECIDON (EPITA · ENC · EHESS) A computational study of parliamentary life under the Third Republic (1870-1940): how public problems circulate between the press and Parliament, and agenda-setting mechanisms. Designing the annotation guide and schema and coordinating the annotation effort; selecting, training, and running NER models; upcoming: event detection. Internship equivalent to 5 months full-time.

Internship — digital editing and textometry

January – April 2025 — CACTUS group, ENS de Lyon Participation in the digital editing of medieval texts from the Base de Francais Medieval: metadata research and integration; manuscript/text alignment; proofreading editions; zone annotation (bounding boxes) on illuminations.

Digital humanities projects (selection)

Vaucluse postcards — VLM pipeline & mapping (2026)

ENC hackathon and CartaData junior enterprise. OCR of postcards with VLMs, metadata extraction and cleaning, database querying via API as a safeguard, georeferencing, JSON/CSV structuring, and production of an interactive map (HTML). Generalizing the pipeline to offer this service to other archival collections.

Repository: https://github.com/icimathieu/vaucluse — Portfolio: https://huggingface.co/spaces/icimathieu/cartes_portfolio

Thesis — building a corpus of “pasteurization” (1870-1914) (2025 – present)

Thesis in the history of science, supervised by Anne Rasmussen (EHESS) and Marie Puren (EPITA, ENC). Gallica scraping and metadata extraction; OCR of scientific journals (late 19th – early 20th century) with a benchmark of several models; corpus and database structuring.

Repositories: https://github.com/icimathieu/scraping_pdf · https://github.com/icimathieu/transcription · https://github.com/icimathieu/latex_memoire (mini-thesis)

FromLego2Hero — mosaic reassembly (2026)

Group project (Python course). Reassembling fragmented mosaics into tesserae (or groups of tesserae) with VLMs and/or graph neural networks (GNNs). Large-scale generation of synthetic data (LEGO mosaics) to enable knowledge transfer between the two kinds of mosaics; data-degradation techniques to generalize learning. Work submitted to a digital humanities conference.

Technical skills

Programming & data: Python (numpy, pandas, networkx, scikit-learn, PyTorch, OpenAI API, folium); knowledge graphs and GNNs, synthetic data generation (augmentation, degradation); HTML, JavaScript, RSS.
Scraping: BeautifulSoup (HTML parsing), Selenium (anti-bot bypass), Scrapy (crawling) — press and archives (Gallica, Le Monde diplomatique, Archives du Vaucluse); IIIF and heritage APIs (Gallica, BnF).
OCR, vision & annotation: PaddleOCR, Tesseract, pero-ocr, YOLO (local); Qwen-VL, Gemini (API); Label Studio; design of annotation schemas and guides.
NLP & textometry: TXM, Iramuteq; n-grams, function words, distances; classification, NER, RAG, stylometry, emotion detection.
Structuring & editing: XML-TEI, XPath, SQL, LaTeX; digital publishing workflows; basic database knowledge.
Tools: Git/GitHub, Hugging Face, LLMs (via API or locally); operating remote machines and servers (SSH).

Languages

French native · English C1 (TOEIC 860, 2020) · German B1–B2.

Outreach & science communication

Video creator — Histosef

2023 – 2026 Production of popular history video content on YouTube, based on scientific readings and essays.

Writer — L’Ouvreuse (Sorbonne webzine)

2024 – 2025

Other experience

Front desk and security agent — Musee d’art et d’histoire Baron Gerard (Bayeux)

2023, 2024

Private tutoring

2022 – 2023 Mathematics and scientific subjects (high-school level).