Introducing Deep-Littré
A quick introduction to the Deep-Littré: a deeply structured, computationally enriched edition of Émile Littré's French dictionary, available as TEI Lex-0 XML and SQLite.
A Study - Maupassant in Translation
Corpus linguistics, literary translation, and the short stories of Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant wrote more than 300 short stories. English readers have access to good translations of maybe 30 to 50 of them, while many of the rest are either still untranslated or available only in century-old public domain editions, often abridged or bowdlerized1 See my notes here, for example. .
This site documents my attempt to study the stories thoroughly in the original French, to translate at least some of them into English — beginning with some of the lesser-known ones — and to share my findings and the computational tools I've built in the process.
In memory of my mother, Suzy.
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Toward a better annotation model for 19th-century French literature
Building a layered annotation pipeline that combines rule-based checks, cross-pipeline comparison, and local LLM classifiers to improve CoNLL-U accuracy on literary French.
Introducing the Isosceles corpus: its composition and motivation
A quick introduction to the Isosceles corpus for anyone interested in working with it, and as contextual grounding for later work.