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ERIC Number: EJ1420515
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 42
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EISSN: EISSN-1934-5275
Collecting and Annotating Corpora for Three Under-Resourced Languages of France: Methodological Issues
Delphine Bernhard; Anne-Laure Ligozat; Myriam Bras; Fanny Martin; Marianne Vergez-Couret; Pascale Erhart; Jean Sibille; Amalia Todirascu; Philippe Boula de Mareüil; Dominique Huck
Language Documentation & Conservation, v15 p316-357 2021
In contrast to French, the vast majority of regional languages of France can be considered as under-resourced. In this article, we present the results of a research project aiming to produce annotated resources for three regional languages of France: Alsatian, Occitan, and Picard. These languages cover three different language families (Germanic and two subfamilies of Romance, Oïl and Oc languages) and different sociolinguistic situations. Yet, they all face issues common to many under-resourced languages: lack of human and financial resources and presence of geolinguistic variation. The originality of this project is that it brought together researchers from different fields (sociolinguistics, descriptive linguistics, dialectology, natural language processing, digital humanities) to work together towards the common goal of developing annotated corpora for Alsatian, Occitan, and Picard. This created a favorable and stimulating working environment which could not have been achieved had different research groups worked independently, each on a single language. This article details the annotation process, with a special focus on the delimitation of the tokens and the definition of the part-of-speech tags.
National Foreign Language Resources Center at University of Hawaii. Department of Linguistics, UHM Moore Hall 569, 1890 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822. Fax: 808-956-9166; e-mail: ldc@hawaii.edu; Web site: https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: France
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