TALN Archives : une archive numérique francophone des articles de recherche en Traitement Automatique de la Langue

TALN Archives : a digital archive of French research articles in Natural Language Processing Scientific research is an incremental process. Reviewing the literature is the first step to do before starting a new research project. The French Natural Language Processing (NLP) community produces numerous scientific publications which are scattered across different sources and for which no metadata is available. This paper presents the construction ofTALN Archives, a digital archive of French research articles whose aim is to provide efficient access to articles in the NLP field. We also present an analysis of the collaboration network constructed from the metadata and disclose the identity of the Kevin Bacon of theTALN Archives,i.e.the most central author in the collaboration network.