CORPUS17: a philological corpus for 17th c. French

CORPUS17: un corpus philologique pour le XVIIe siècle français

Simon Gabay (1, 2) , Alexandre Bartz (3, 2) , Yohann Deguin (4)

1 UNIGE - Université de Genève = University of Geneva
2 UNINE - Université de Neuchâtel = University of Neuchatel
3 ENC - École nationale des chartes
4 UNIROUEN - Université de Rouen Normandie

We investigate the creation of a 17th c. French literary corpus. We present the main options regarding available standards, the training data we created and the efficiency of the models produced for OCR, spelling normalisation and lemmatisation – always with open-source solutions. We also present our encoding choices and the global logic of a corpus designed as a virtuous circle, enhancing automatically the tools that are used for its construction.

We investigate the creation of a 17th c. French literary corpus. We present the main options regarding available standards, the training data we created and the efficiency of the models produced for OCR, spelling normalisation and lemmatisation – always with open-source solutions. We also present our encoding choices and the global logic of a corpus designed as a virtuous circle, enhancing automatically the tools that are used for its construction.

Mots clés: Lemmatisation; Normalisation; XML TEI; OCR; 17th French; 17th c. French; Lemmatisation; normalisation; lemmatisation; POStagging; named entities; digital humanities; XML-TEI; Lemmatisation; Lemmatisation

Mots clés: Lemmatisation; Normalisation; Lemmatisation; XML TEI; OCR; Français classique; Lemmatisation; Lemmatisation

Domaines: Littératures; Linguistique; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]; Traitement du texte et du document

Simon Gabay, Alexandre Bartz, Yohann Deguin. CORPUS17: a philological corpus for 17th c. French. Proceedings of the 2nd International Digital Tools & Uses Congress (DTUC ’20), Oct 2020, Hammamet, Tunisia. ⟨10.1145/3423603.3424002⟩. ⟨hal-03041871⟩