license: cc-by-sa-4.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
- token-classification
language:
- fr
- en
tags:
- medical
- historical
- medieval
- medieval-french
ALMeD: A domAin-specific goLd-standard for MeDieval French
ALMeD is a gold-standard corpus of medieval medical and surgical texts designed for linguistic analysis and NLP applications. The dataset was developed within the framework of the Knowledge Networks in Medieval Romance-Speaking Europe (ALMA) project, with an emphasis on historical Romance languages and highly specialised technical vocabulary. You can read more at https://alma.hadw-bw.de/tools/almed.
ALMeD is a work-in-progress!
Texts available (so far):
- The first treatise (on anatomy) of the Grande Chirurgie by Gui de Chauliac (in Middle French, edition by Sabine Tittel) - in progress
- Lettre d’Hippocrate à César, (Anglo-Norman scripta, edition by Tony Hunt) - completed
Contributors
ALMA:
Sabine Tittel, Ragini Menon, Sara Aakrout, Gloria de Meleghy, Gustavo Campedelli, Leo Reitmeier, Valentin Jablonowski (Heidelberg)
Matthias Schöffel (Munich)
Our Happy Helpers:
Hao Nguyen Ngoc Nhu, Andrea Hönig, Mohammed Çopuroglu, Fatih Sevinç, Hoda Rai, Fatine Bouchbouch, Rija Aziz, Agnese Ughetti, Reshma Verghese (Darmstadt)