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More Than 1100 Schools Receive Antidote for Christmas
Just in time for Christmas, 1140 Canadian schools will receive a free license allowing them to install Antidote 12 on 10 computers. This represents a donation worth over 1.1 million dollars.
Antidote Donated to 439 Educational Institutions in France
No fewer than 439 educational institutions in France will soon receive a free license allowing them to install Antidote 12 on 10 computers. This represents a donation worth over 300,000 euros.
Antidote Donated to 78 Belgian Educational Institutions
Just in time for Christmas, 78 Belgian schools will receive a free license allowing them to install it Antidote 12 on 10 computers. This represents a donation worth nearly 55,000 euros.
Shruti Joshi Is Awarded the Ninth Antidote Scholarship in Natural Language Processing
Totalling $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.
Camille Deguise Receives the 3rd Antidote Scholarship in Remedial Education
The master’s student in remedial education receives $25,000 for her work with the Research Chair for Foundation Learning in Literacy, established through a $1 million donation made to UQAM by Druide informatique.
Free Updates for the Entire Antidote Product Line
Antidote 12 v3 comes with updates that improve the corrector, enhance the generative AI Reformulation feature and add thousands of new entries to the dictionaries. On Windows, dark mode is now available for Antidote.
Marc-André Gaudry Joins Radio-Canada’s Comité de terminologie
Radio-Canada has invited Marc-André Gaudry, a lexicographer at Druide informatique, to participate in its Comité de terminologie, whose mission includes coming up with French counterparts to new terms and sharing the fruits of its labour. Many neologisms coined by the committee already appear in Antidote’s dictionaries.
“By collaborating...
Volume 2 of Antidote : le jeu Is Hitting the Shelves
Antidote : le jeu now comes in two stand-alone volumes. The second one features 500 new general-knowledge trivia questions following the same formula that made volume 1 a hit.
The Dictionary Society of North America Appoints Rachel Stone to its Executive Board
Rachel Stone, one of Druide informatique’s English Lexicographers, recently joined the Dictionary Society of North America’s Executive Board for a four-year term. The Society’s mission is to “bring together people interested in dictionary making, study, collection, and use.” Headquartered in North America, it has over 400 members from 40 different...
Three Druide Books Selected by Communication-Jeunesse
Communication-Jeunesse (CJ) has unveiled the books featured in its fall 2025 CJ, qu’est-ce qu’on lit ? selection. We were thrilled to learn that it includes not one, not two, but three of our books: Petite Pétronille by Annie Bacon and Boum, Comme toi et moi by Priska Poirier and...