sabine tittel, state of the art: the „old french situation“

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Workshop Connecting textual

corpora and dictionaries25-26 April 2013, Krakw

S. Tittel, DEAF State of the Art: The Old French Situation

State of the Art:The Old French Situation

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The DEAF

Includes all primary text sources

Evaluates the results of all dictionaries of OldFrench

Ongoing composition since 1968

Published in print G K (incl. prefixes A Z)

On-line since 2010 Project funding ends 2017

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The corpus of Old French

Includes texts of all genres and whole time period

DEAF bibliography: references to about 2,700

primary text sources Extrapolation from digital corpora:

Corpus NCA: 140 texts, total 3 M words

Corpus BFM: 75 texts, total 3.3 M words=> estimated size OF corpus: 60 120 M words

=> No digital corpus of Old French



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Situation of Corpus Linguistics andCorpus Lexicography from DEAF POV

Overview existing projects of Old French

corpus linguistics and

corpus lexicography

DEAF is not part of this talk

Basis for discussion of main objectives of theworkshop

Possible input into later debate



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Agenda

1.List of existing projects

2.What are the main considerations forcompiling electronic corpora?

3.What are existing/expected links between

electronic dictionaries and corpora?4.How can textual corpora and the dictionarywriting process benefit each other?



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Corpus linguistic Projects

1. BFM

Base de Franais Mdival(Lyon)

2. CoRPTeFCorpus reprsentatif des premiers textesfranais (Lyon)

3. NCANouveau Corpus d'Amsterdam (Stuttgart)

4. DocLing

Les plus anciens documents linguistiques de laFrance (Zurich)

5. Corpus de testaments de Saint-Di-des-Vosges(Aberystwyth)

6. TFATextes de Franais Ancien (Ottawa)7. MCVFModliser le changement:les voies du franais

(Ottawa)8. Frantext (Nancy)



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Corpus lexicographical projects

1. ANDElThe Anglo-Norman Dictionary

(Aberystwyth)

2. [DMFDictionnaire du Moyen Francais(ATILF, Nancy)]

3. DCTDictionnaire lectronique de Chrtiende Troyes (Ottawa / ATILF, Nancy)

Issues exemplary for workshop topic



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DCT

Corpus: romances of Chrtien de Troyes [BN fr.794; Guiot]

Readable en bloc, partly lemmatised

Dictionary: A Q

Search functions

close-meshed linking to corpus and vice versa Linking to bitmap images of ms.

Linking to Godefroy, DMF, DEAF



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Issues DCT from DEAF POV

Single ms. as basis for the language ofChrtien

=> Information isolated

Too little focus on semantics



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What are the main considerations

for compiling electronic corpora?



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Main considerations for compilingelectronic corpora

Far away from workable approaches which suffice

the existing philological standards

the desired information retrieval.

Target: Edit data for studies

morphosyntactic, phraseological, semantic, andhistorico-cultural

Basis: the comprehension of the text

Q: Enough emphasis on semantic tagging?



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What are existing/expected links

between electronic dictionaries andcorpora?



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Existing (electronic) links of DEAF

a) Corpus lexicographical projects

ANDEl, and DMF

b) Corpus linguistic projects

[Frantext: regular use but no linking]



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Q: Why only these?

A: Cost-benefit ratio.

Incorporating results

Turns them into source material Need to be carefully verified and evaluated

Both Enrichment Obstruction



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Example:jorday

Traditional analysis of 1,000 slips: ca. 50senses / sub-senses

the Old French corpus 50,000 att.

High cost: min. 3 years

Low benefit: corpus driven approach + 1 or 2extra sub-senses



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Expected Links

Vision: integration of all valuable results

Two modest dreams:1) Better semantic preparation of digital corpus2) On-line publication of more dictionaries (FEW, TL)

More linking to dictionaries would Not change content of DEAF articles Enhance the quality of on-line publication Refine the meshes of a digital network



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How can textual corpora contribute to

the dictionary writing process?How can electronic dictionariescontribute to corpora enrichment?



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Dictionaries and corpus qualitydetermine each other

The respective qualities rise in mutualdependence.

=> synopsis comparative

/ vergleichende Zusammenschau

/ the comparative synopsis of knowledge=> key to quality enhancement



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How can textual corpora benefit thedictionary writing process?

Two approaches:

1. Newly designed and conceptualised

dictionaries (ex. DCT)

2. Long-established dictionaries

Characteristic for COST Action

=> 1st step: Coop. DEAF-DocLing



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DEAF Team ca. 2012


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