In this paper, we explain how the notion of MetaGrammar, which has successfully been used for generating wide-coverage tree adjoining grammars (TAGs) for various languages such as French (Abeillé et al. (1999)) and German (Gerdes (2002)), may be used to generate a wide-coverage Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) for French. We first introduce the notion of MetaGrammar and present the tools we use...

Current machine translation (MT) techniques are continuously improving. In specific areas, post-editing (PE) can enable the production of high-quality translations relatively quickly. But is it feasible to translate a literary work (fiction, short story, etc) using such an MT+PE pipeline? This paper offers an initial response to this question. An essay by the American writer Richard Powers, cur...

We introduce a MetaGrammar, which allows us to automatically generate, from a single and compact MetaGrammar hierarchy, parallel Lexical Functional Grammars (LFG) and Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG) for French and for English: the grammar writer specifies in compact manner syntactic properties that are potentially framework-, and to some extent language-independent (such as subcategorization, val...

TreeLex is a subcategorization lexicon of French, automatically extracted from a syntactically annotated corpus. The lexicon comprises 2006 verbs (25076 occurrences). The goal of the project is to obtain a list of subcategorization frames of contemporary French verbs and to estimate the number of different verb frames available in French in general. A few more frames are discovered when the cor...

In this paper we describe the Bovary Project, a manuscripts digitization project of the famous French writer Gustave FLAUBERT first great work, which should end in 2006 by providing an online access to an hypertextual edition of ”Madame Bovary” drafts set. We first develop the global context of this project, the main objectives, and then focus particularly on the document analysis problem. Fina...