# The Logoscope: a Semi-Automatic Tool for Detecting and Documenting French New Words

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10797 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.10797/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 25 Oct 2018.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [NeoN: A Tool for Automated Detection, Linguistic and LLM-Driven Analysis of Neologisms in Polish](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.15426/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this article we present the design and implementation of the Logoscope, the first tool especially developed to detect new words of the French language, to document them and allow a public access through a web interface. This semi-automatic tool collects new words daily by browsing the online versions of French well known newspapers such as Le Monde, Le Figaro, L'Equipe, Lib'eration, La Croix, Les 'Echos. In contrast to other existing tools essentially dedicated to dictionary development, the Logoscope attempts to give a more complete account of the context in which the new words occur. In addition to the commonly given morpho-syntactic information it also provides information about the textual and discursive contexts of the word creation; in particular, it automatically determines the (journalistic) topics of the text containing the new word. In this article we first give a general overview of the developed tool. We then describe the approach taken, we discuss the linguistic background which guided our design decisions and present the computational methods we used to implement it.