Construction and Annotation of a French Folkstale Corpus

Anne Garcia-Fernandez, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Anne Vilnat


Abstract
In this paper, we present the digitization and annotation of a tales corpus - which is to our knowledge the only French tales corpus available and classified according to the Aarne&Thompson classification - composed of historical texts (with old French parts). We first studied whether the pre-processing tools, namely OCR and PoS-tagging, have good enough accuracies to allow automatic analysis. We also manually annotated this corpus according to several types of information which could prove useful for future work: character references, episodes, and motifs. The contributions are the creation of an corpus of French tales from classical anthropology material, which will be made available to the community; the evaluation of OCR and NLP tools on this corpus; and the annotation with anthropological information.
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L14-1053
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
Year:
2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2430–2435
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/1070_Paper.pdf
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Anne Garcia-Fernandez, Anne-Laure Ligozat, and Anne Vilnat. 2014. Construction and Annotation of a French Folkstale Corpus. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 2430–2435, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Construction and Annotation of a French Folkstale Corpus (Garcia-Fernandez et al., LREC 2014)
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