Abstract Parts-of-Speech (POS) Tagging is one of the fundamental and pre-processing steps
for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks such as Text Summarization, Name Entity …

In this thesis we explore robust statistical syntax analysis for French. Our main concern is to
explore methods whereby the linguist can inject linguistic knowledge and/or resources into …

In this paper, we propose a new approach to construct a system of transformation rules for
the Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging task. Our approach is based on an incremental …

This article presents the results we obtained on a complex annotation task (that of
dependency syntax) using a specifically designed Game with a Purpose, ZombiLingo. We …

Our usage of language is not solely reliant on cognition but is arguably determined by
myriad external factors leading to a global variability of linguistic patterns. This issue, which …

In this paper we present a tagger developed for inflectionally rich languages for which both a
training corpus and a lexicon are available. We do not constrain the tagger by the lexicon …

The CoMeRe project aims to build a kernel corpus of different Computer-Mediated Com-
munication (CMC) genres with interactions in French as the main language, by assembling …

Résumé This article details the creation of TCOF-POS, the first freely available corpus of
spontaneous spoken French. We present here the methodology that was followed in order to …

In this paper, we return to the well-studied yet still puzzling phenomenon of complementizer
omission in a large spoken corpus of Quebec French, with the help of modern computational …

This study partially replicates Paquot's (,) study of phraseological complexity in L2 English
by investigating how phraseological complexity compares across proficiency levels as well …