UD_French-ALTS

Treebank card from UD release 2.18: metadata and texts come from UD_French-ALTS/README.md; size is counted by streaming the .conllu files and checked against the release stats.xml. Generated by tools/treebanks build; do not edit by hand. Papers: Papers: UD_French-ALTS; seeds: seeds/; converter: convert.md.

Annotation layers

UD scale: manual native — annotated by hand directly in UD; converted from manual — converted from manual annotation in another scheme; converted with corrections — converted and partly corrected by hand; automatic with corrections — automatic, with partial manual corrections; automatic — automatic; not available — the layer is absent.

Size

Tokens are surface tokens (Spanish vámonos is one), words are syntactic words (vamos + nos); multiword tokens are those split into several words; empty nodes are the N.M nodes of the enhanced graph.

Summary

ALTS (AUTOMATED Sixteenth-century corpus) is a treebank of sixteenth-century legal French from Normandy and the Channel Islands.

Introduction

Currently it contains two texts: 1) trial accounts from Guernsey Greffe (register Crime I), transcribed directly from the manuscript (1563-1569_Guern) and 2) an extract from Book 9 of Guillaume Terrien's Commentaires du droict civil tant public que privé observé au pays et duché de Normandie digitised from the original printed book (1578_Terrien). The text of 1563-1569_Guern presents many dialectal Norman features and forms. The text of 1578_Terrien has some Latin words and expressions.

1563-1569_Guern

This text contains accounts of fifteen court cases on the island on Guernsey from 1563 to 1569 (witchcraft, piratry, infanticide etc). The text was transcribed in full from the original manuscript Guernsey Greffe Crime I, abbreviations were expanded. In the treebank, sentences from this text have the prefix 1563-1569_Guern.

1578_Terrien

This text contains passages authored by Guillaume Terrien himself (and not quotations from earlier legal texts) from Book 9 "Style de procédure" from the sixteenth-century printed book Guillaume Terrien (1568). Commentaires du droict civil tant public que privé observé au pays et duché de Normandie, 2nd edition, Paris: Jacques du Puy, pp. 339-402. The spelling and word segmentation of the original, including abbreviated words (e.g. "glo." for "glose"), have been retained. Only abbreviations for "m" and "n" (eg. "o with a tilda" for "om" or "on" and "&" for "et" have been expanded. In the treebank, sentences from this text have the prefix 1578_Terrien.

Sentences written completely in Latin were excluded. If Latin words occur in French sentences, the token contains the tag Lang=la and is lemmatised with a Latin lemma.

Sentence and token number per text

Text	Sentences	Tokens
1563-1569_Guern	1,269	45,101
1578_Terrien	757	25,113
Total	2,026	70,114

Annotation

Verbs and auxiliaries are annotated in verb forms (VerbForm): Inf (infinitive), Fin (conjugated) and Part (participle). In 1568_Terrien, congujated verbs and auxiliaries are annotated in Person and Number.

Pronouns are annotated in type (PronType: Dem for demonstrative, Ind for indefinite, Int for interrogative, Prs for personal and Rel for relative). Reflexive and possessive pronouns are also tagged (Reflexive=Yes and Poss=Yes).

Determiners are annotated using PronType feature (Art for articles, Dem for demonstratives, Ind for indefinite). Possessive determiners have are annotated Poss=Yes.

The treebank is lemmatised using modern French lemmata and, wherever approriate, using lemmata from (Dictionnaire du Moyen Français).

Train/Dev/Test split

Set	Sentences	Tokens
Train	1202	43,389
Dev	154	6,024
Test	670	20,701
Total	2,026	70,114

Earlier versions of the texts, annotated with HT-CRISCO workflow incorporating the use of HOPS parser, can be consulted on CRISCO Lab's TXM server and via the website.

Please note that French-ALTS treebank is still under development and will be undergoing campains of correction. Annotation will be revised and expanded. Please do not hesitate to contact us is you have any questions, suggestions or comments.

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