L’évolution du français

The Grande Grammaire du Français Project

We present a new reference Grammar of French (La Grande Grammaire du français), which is a collective project (gathering around fifty contributors), producing a book (about 2200 pages, to be published en 2011) and associated databases. Like the recent reference grammars of the other Romance Languages, it takes into account the important results of the linguistic research of the past thrity year...

Algorithmes de traduction automatique du japonais en français

Une exploration de la structure sémantique du lexique adjectival français

This paper presents an exploration of a lexical graph, within the framework of lexical semantics. The aim of the exploration is reveal the structure of the lexicon modelled by the graph so an automatic system can reach the information it contains. We developed geometric tools to build a semantic space associated with the graph. The topology of this space can account for the topology of the grap...

Les apports du TAL à la lisibilité du français langue étrangère

This paper presents a set of experiments aiming to (1) assess the contribution of NLP to the specific issue of the readability of texts for French as a foreign language (FFL) readers and (2) to propose a new readability formula for FFL. This new model relies on 46 textual features representative of the lexical, syntactic, and semantic levels as well as some of the specificities of the FFL conte...

Towards a treebank of spoken French (Vers un treebank du français parlé) [in French]

Towards a treebank of spoken French We present the first results of an attempt to build a spoken treebank for French. It has been conducted as part of the ANR project Etape (resp. G. Gravier). Contrary to other languages such as English (see the Switchboard treebank (Meteer, 1995)), there is no sizable spoken corpus for French annotated for syntactic constituents and grammatical functions. Our ...