[Apologies for cross-posting]
Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to announce the BFM2019 corpus on the web portal of the Base de Français Médiéval http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/?command=documentation&path=/BFM2019.
The graphical design of the BFM-TXM web portal has been entirely revised and improved at this occasion.
The Terms of use have been simplified and all the texts are now available under an open licence Etalab (https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/licence-ouverte-open-licence).
The BFM2019 corpus includes some fifteen new texts and amounts approximately 4,700,000 words. All the texts are formatted according to the TEI guidelines (including the instances of directed speech), automatically pos-tagged and lemmatized. The POS tags are manually verified in 4 new texts (38 total, approximately 1,000,000 words), and the lemmatization is verified and disambiguated in 18 texts (approximately 400,000 words).
The corpus includes three new original editions: - /La Vie de saint Alexis/, ed. T. Rainsford et C. Marchello-Nizia, - /L’image du monde/ by Gossouin, prose version, ed N. Kanaoka, - /Les quinze joies de mariage/, ed. N. Kanaoka on the basis of the printed edition prepared by M. Guéret-Laferté, S. Louis and C. Mira, Rouen, Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2009.
Best regards,
The BFM Team bfm [at] ens-lyon [dot] fr