Challenges of language change and variation: towards an extended treebank of Medieval French

Mathilde Regnault, Sophie Prévost, Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie
2019 Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT, SyntaxFest 2019)   unpublished
In order to automatically extend a treebank of Old French (9 th -13 th c.) with new texts in Old and Middle French (14 th -15 th c.), we need to adapt tools for syntactic annotation. However, these stages of French are subjected to great variation, and parsing historical texts remains an issue. We chose to adapt a symbolic system, the French Metagrammar (FRMG), and develop a lexicon comparable to the Lefff lexicon for Old and Middle French. The final goal of our project is to model the
more » ... of language through the whole period of Medieval French (9 th -15 th c.).
doi:10.18653/v1/w19-7816 fatcat:du5gzs66pvfzneccnmpudzfst4