This thesis adresses the issue of accessing scientific and technical information conveyed by large sets of documents. To enable the user to find his own relevant information, we worked on a model meeting the requirement of flexibility imposed by our industrial application context ; to do so, we postulated the necessity of segmenting information from documents into ontological facets. The resulting model enables a documentary immersion, thanks to three types of complementary processes : endogenous processes (exploiting the corpus to analyze the corpus), exogenous processes (using external resources) and anthropogenous ones (in which the user's skills are considered as a resource) are combined. They all contribute to granting the user a fundamental role in the system, as an interpreting agent and as a knowledge creator, provided that he is placed in an industrial or specialised context.
