Building a Treebank for French

We present a treebank project for French. We have annotated a newspaper corpus of 1 Million words with part of speech, inflection, compounds, lemmas and constituency. We describe the tagging and parsing phases of the project, and for each, the automatic tools, the guidelines and the validation process. We then present some uses of the corpus as well as some directions for future work.

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