Abstract
The Petit Larousse illustré is a French dictionary first published in 1905. Its division in two main parts on language and on history and geography corresponds to a major milestone in French lexicography as well as a repository of general knowledge from this period. Although the value of many entries from 1905 remains intact, some descriptions now have a dimension that is more historical than contemporary. They are nonetheless significant to analyze and understand cultural representations from this time. A comparison with more recent information or a verification of these entries would require a tedious manual work. In this paper, we describe a new lexical resource, where we connected all the dictionary entries of the history and geography part to current data sources. For this, we linked each of these entries to a wikidata identifier. Using the wikidata links, we can automate more easily the identification, comparison, and verification of historically-situated representations. We give a few examples on how to process wikidata identifiers and we carried out a small analysis of the entities described in the dictionary to outline possible applications. The resource, i.e. the annotation of 20,245 dictionary entries with wikidata links, is available from GitHub (https://github.com/pnugues/petit_larousse_1905/)- Anthology ID:
- 2022.lrec-1.272
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2548–2555
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.272
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Pierre Nugues. 2022. Connecting a French Dictionary from the Beginning of the 20th Century to Wikidata. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 2548–2555, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- Connecting a French Dictionary from the Beginning of the 20th Century to Wikidata (Nugues, LREC 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/2022.lrec-1.272.pdf
- Code
- pnugues/petit_larousse_1905
- Data
- larousse_1905_wd