„Établissement d’un corpus de romans français du XVIIIe siècle dans le cadre du projet Mining and Modeling Text”

The volume brings together eight contributions that were originally planned for a section of the congress of the Frankoromanistenverband (FRV) in February 2020 at the University of Vienna, and which, following its cancellation due to the pandemic, have now been published as an edited collection.

The focus is on the potential of digital research methods for French in the field of historical linguistics. The contributions by researchers from Germany, France, and Canada address a range of digitisation projects involving corpora of older language stages from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period, challenges in working with existing corpora such as Frantext or the Base de Français Médiéval (BFM), as well as digital tools for the computational processing of texts from older language stages.

In her article, Julia Röttgermann introduces the corpus created as part of the 'Mining and Modeling Text' project, consisting of 200 French novels from the years 1750–1800. This corpus comprises a balanced collection of literary texts in TEI/XML, freely available at the following link: Röttgermann, Julia (2024): "The Collection of Eighteenth-Century French Novels 1751-1800", in: Journal of Open Humanities Data 10 (1): 10.5334/johd.201.

Sample reading (edited volume, introduction): https://www.avm-verlag.de/detailview?no=L95477144