# Corpus and Models for Lemmatisation and POS-tagging of Classical French Theatre

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.07505 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.07505/

## Key facts

- Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 15 May 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [From FreEM to D'AlemBERT: a Large Corpus and a Language Model for Early Modern French](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.09452/) (2022)
- [Corpus and Models for Lemmatisation and POS-tagging of Old French](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.11442/) (2021)
- [Under-resourced studies of under-resourced languages: lemmatization and POS-tagging with LLM annotators for historical Armenian, Georgian, Greek and Syriac](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.15753/) (2026)
- [From Traditional Taggers to LLMs: A Comparative Study of POS Tagging for Medieval Romance Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.09147/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper describes the process of building an annotated corpus and training models for classical French literature, with a focus on theatre, and particularly comedies in verse. It was originally developed as a preliminary step to the stylometric analyses presented in Cafiero and Camps [2019]. The use of a recent lemmatiser based on neural networks and a CRF tagger allows to achieve accuracies beyond the current state-of-the art on the in-domain test, and proves to be robust during out-of-domain tests, i.e.up to 20th c.novels.