A Parallel Corpus of the Parable of the Prodigal Son: Building a Resource for Documenting Language Varieties in Mainland France

Lucence Ing, Juliette Janès, Sven Ködel, Benoît Sagot


Abstract
This paper presents a historical parallel corpus of languages spoken in metropolitan France. It consists of a collection of versions of the Parable of the Prodigal Son, collected during the 19th century. The paper aims to present the interest of such a corpus, its constitution—through XML/TEI encoding, semi-automatic alignment and projection on linguistic maps—and its potential uses for the study of these low-resource languages.
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2026.lrec-main.261
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Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
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2026
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Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Stelios Piperidis, Núria Bel, Henk van den Heuvel, Nancy Ide, Simon Krek, Antonio Toral
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LREC
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ELRA Language Resource Association
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3317–3324
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Lucence Ing, Juliette Janès, Sven Ködel, and Benoît Sagot. 2026. A Parallel Corpus of the Parable of the Prodigal Son: Building a Resource for Documenting Language Varieties in Mainland France. International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, main:3317–3324.
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A Parallel Corpus of the Parable of the Prodigal Son: Building a Resource for Documenting Language Varieties in Mainland France (Ing et al., LREC 2026)
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