Alceste is a software for the Textual Data Analysis, developed by the C.N.R.S. with the support of the ANVAR . This is an important tool for the automatic analysis of textual data (open questions, litterature works, magazine articles, essays, etc.)
The software Alceste can be used in Sociology,  Psychology,  Surveys processing, Speeches analysis, Advices in Marketing, Advertising, Journalism, History, Law,  Linguistics,  Medecine, Documentary research, Press analysis, and finally in the fields there are lots of texts to process.
The aim is to quantify a text to extract its strongest significant structures so as to draw the essential information contained in the textual data. Research has shown (J.P. Benzecri , M. Reinert) that these structures are closely linked to the distribution of the words in a text and that this distribution is rarely done at random. To describe, classify, assimilate, and synthesize automatically a text is the interest of ALCESTE.

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