Re: [Corpora-List] RE: Corpora of Written French

From: Jean Veronis (Jean.Veronis@mailup.univ-mrs.fr)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 14:21:31 MET

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    At 15:36 01/11/2002 +0000, ZL Handley wrote:
    >Hello
    >
    >Does anyone know of any broad coverage corpora of written French
    >which are available freely on the net?

    Unefortunately there aren't many French corpora freely available.

    >I would like to use the corpus to extract two sets of sentences at
    >random from the corpus in order to test the coverage of speech
    >synthesiser.

    If the subset you need is not too large and composed only of random
    sentences, I can probably extract that for you from my own corpora. I could
    make such a testset available on the web for other people with the same needs.

    Jean Véronis
    http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/veronis/



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