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Megh Vipul Thakkar Is Awarded the Eighth Antidote Scholarship in Natural Language Processing
Totaling $20,000, the Antidote Scholarship in NLP is endowed by the Druide Fund for Research in Text Analysis, created through a donation from Druide informatique to Université de Montréal.
Loanah Jouvin Wins the Antidote Grand Prize for Eloquence
The award recognizes the student’s outstanding performance in the “Délie ta langue!” eloquence contest finals and includes a $5,000 bursary. Moreover, finalists from 13 universities all received Antidote+.
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Antidote Launches Generative AI for Sentence Reformulation
Antidote now features generative AI for rewording sentences and paragraphs, and for fixing discontinuities in language structure.
Alain Beaulieu Wins the 2023 Prix France-Québec for His Novel Le refuge
Éditions Druide applauds author Alain Beaulieu, winner of the Prix France-Québec literary award for his novel Le refuge. The Fédération France-Québec/francophonie (FFQ/f) announced the good news at the Salon du livre de Montréal on Saturday, November 25. The annual award recognizes excellence in contemporary Quebec fiction by...
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Antidote Replaces WebElixir
New functionalities, including correction directly at the source, will allow Antidote to replace WebElixir.
Communication-Jeunesse Includes Les Abysses, tome 1 — La mine in its Book Selection
Communication-Jeunesse (CJ) has unveiled the books featured in its CJ, qu’est-ce qu’on lit? selection for Fall 2023, revealing that Les Abysses, tome 1 — La mine, written by Annie Bacon and illustrated by Mathieu Benoit, is among them!
CJ’s mission is to promote reading and thereby introduce...
Druide Raises $84,000 for the Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie
The 12th Druide Classic and the ensuing campaign raised a record sum for a single tournament, bringing the grand total donated to the foundation since 2009 to over $500,000.
Catherine Lafrance Named a Finalist for the 2023 Prix Saint-Pacôme
The Société du roman policier de Saint-Pacôme (a non-profit that presents annual literary awards for French-language crime novels) revealed the three finalists for its 2023 Prix St-Pacôme. For the second consecutive year, Catherine Lafrance garnered the jury’s interest—this time for her novel Le dernier souffle est le...