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- fr
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# DEAF4NLP: A comprehensive dictionary dataset for Medieval French

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  <img src="DEAF4NLP_small.png" alt="deaf" width="500">
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DEAF4NLP is a structured dataset created from the database of the [Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français (DEAF)](https://deaf.hadw-bw.de/). The dataset complements existing lexicographic datasets in Medieval French such as FROLEX. However, it excludes morphological information. DEAF4NLP includes the Main Lemma, lemma, POS (UPOS) and a definition of each form. If possible, we will also include the language-specific POS (XPOS), based on the CATTEX guidelines.

The dataset was developed within the framework of the [Knowledge Networks in Medieval Romance-Speaking Europe (ALMA)](https://alma.hadw-bw.de/) project at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, which researches the development of knowledge networks and concepts in Medieval Romance languages (French, Occitan, Gascon and Italian).
DEAF4NLP is a work-in-progress! 

You can find the WIP version on the ALMA GitLab: https://gitlab.hadw-bw.de/alma/alma/-/tree/develop/text_factory/goldstandards/French/DEAF_datadump

### Questions? Please contact Ragini Menon at ragini.menon@hadw-bw.de


## Contributors:

Ragini Menon (ALMA), Sabine Tittel (ALMA/DEAF)