MeThAL : Towards a macroanalysis of theater in Alsatian

https://methal.pages.unistra.fr/

This project aims to create a large corpus of theater in Alsatian, a valuable resource for French regional languages. The corpus can be used for a variety of quantitative and qualitative analyses to detect which characters profiles are the most prevalent, what genre is the most productive (comedy or drama etc.). The huge orthographic variety of Alsatian presents specific challenges for Natural Language Processing (NLP), as is the case for any low-resource language. These challenges highlight needs which are only partially addressed by existing text analysis tools, mainly geared towards majority languages. The project will exploit and contribute to the resources created by the RESTAURE project, on NLP for France’s regional languages.

Project Manager: Pablo Ruiz (LiLPa/FRLC)