Building a treebank for Occitan: what use for Romance UD corpora?

A Four-Dialect Treebank for Occitan: Building Process and Parsing Experiments

Occitan is a Romance language spoken mainly in the south of France. It has no official status in the country, it is not standardized and displays important diatopic variation resulting in a rich system of dialects. Recen…

Tools for Digital Humanities: Enabling Access to the Old Occitan Romance of Flamenca

Building a Universal Dependencies Treebank for Occitan

This paper outlines the ongoing effort of creating the first treebank for Occitan, a low-ressourced regional language spoken mainly in the south of France. We briefly present the global context of the project and report …

Do not neglect related languages: The case of low-resource Occitan cross-lingual word embeddings

Cross-lingual word embeddings (CLWEs) have proven indispensable for various natural language processing tasks, e.g., bilingual lexicon induction (BLI). However, the lack of data often impairs the quality of representatio…

OcWikiDisc: a Corpus of Wikipedia Talk Pages in Occitan

This paper presents OcWikiDisc, a new freely available corpus in Occitan, as well as language identification experiments on Occitan done as part of the corpus building process. Occitan is a regional language spoken mainl…