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Paris Speech in the Past
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A collection of semi-literary representations of vernacular (French)
speech from the 16th to 19th centuries which is preceeded by a set of
tax-rolls from late 17th century Paris. Publications based on this
resource: Lodge, R.A. (1996) “Stereotypes of vernacular pronunciation
in 17th-18th century Paris,” Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie
112. -- Lodge, R.A. (1995) "Les lettres de Montmartre," Revue de
linguistique romane 59.

	Cited from http://ota.ox.ac.uk/desc/2423
	June 15, 2017


HistCorp inclusion date
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January 30, 2017


Website
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http://ota.ox.ac.uk/desc/2423


Licence
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) 


The HistCorp files
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On the HistCorp page, the French texts from 'Paris Speech in the Past'
are provided in a plain text format ('txt'), and in a tokenised format
('tok').

In the plain text files, the original rtf files have been stored as
plain text using the 'save as' function in Microsoft
Word. Furthermore, metadata are given in a TEI-compatible format at
the top of each txt file. The metadata information was mainly
extracted from the metadata stated in the xml file accompanying the
rtf files when downloading the corpus from Oxford Text Archive. In
addition, the number of tokens for each file has been calculated based
on the tokenised version of the file.

In the tokenised files, the texts are split into one token on each
line. Tokenisation was performed using the UDPipe tokeniser
(https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/udpipe) with the French language model
provided as a baseline model in the CoNLL17 Shared Task
(french-ud-2.0-conll17-170315.udpipe).

Size: 10 texts, with a total of 230,915 tokens.

Genres: tax rolls, and vernacular French speech in the form of drama,
poetry, political pamphlets, conference speech and letters.