@article{nedey-etal-2026-forumoccitania,
    title = "{F}orum{O}ccitania: A Corpus of User-Generated Content for Multiple {O}ccitan Varieties",
    author = "N{\'e}dey, Oriane  and
      Jan{\`e}s, Juliette  and
      Bawden, Rachel  and
      Cl{\'e}rice, Thibault  and
      Sagot, Beno{\^i}t",
    editor = "Piperidis, Stelios  and
      Bel, N{\'u}ria  and
      van den Heuvel, Henk  and
      Ide, Nancy  and
      Krek, Simon  and
      Toral, Antonio",
    journal = "International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation",
    volume = "main",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-lrec/2026.lrec-main.252/",
    pages = "3220--3233",
    abstract = "We introduce ForumOccitania, a new Occitan corpus of posts from an online forum, covering a range of topics and dialects. While some existing datasets for this low-resource language include labels of varieties within the dialect continuum, we go one step further by providing metadata pertaining to sociolinguistic factors of language variation (dialect, geographical location, age, proficiency), extracted from self-declared user profiles. We carry out statistical and qualitative analyses, as well as preliminary experiments on unsupervised dialect identification. Our results show that (i) most of the contents is written in Occitan, with the classical spelling conventions, and by young speakers, (ii) posts display a strong presence of dialectal features from four major Occitan varieties (Lemosin, Lengadocian, Gascon, Proven{\c{c}}au), and (iii) a simple topic modelling approach introduced by Kuparinen and Scherrer (2024) effectively detects salient features of these four varieties, but also reveals finer-grained diatopical variation tendencies."
}