---
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):

1. The first treatise (on anatomy) of the Grande Chirurgie by Gui de Chauliac (in Middle French, edition by Sabine Tittel) - in progress
2. 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)