# Moly'e: A Corpus-based Approach to Language Contact in Colonial France

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04554 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.04554/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 6 of its 66 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 8 Aug 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 6 of 6)

- [Language ID in the Wild: Unexpected Challenges on the Path to a Thousand-Language Web Text Corpus](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.14571/) (2020)
- [Automatic Language Identification in Texts: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.08186/) (2018)
- [What a Creole Wants, What a Creole Needs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.00437/) (2022)
- [Arabic Dialect Identification under Scrutiny: Limitations of Single-label Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.13661/) (2023)
- [Krey`ol-MT: Building MT for Latin American, Caribbean and Colonial African Creole Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.05376/) (2024)
- [Ancestor-to-Creole Transfer is Not a Walk in the Park](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.04371/) (2022)

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

- [Kr'eyoLID From Language Identification Towards Language Mining](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.06547/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Whether or not several Creole languages which developed during the early modern period can be considered genetic descendants of European languages has been the subject of intense debate. This is in large part due to the absence of evidence of intermediate forms. This work introduces a new open corpus, the Moly'e corpus, which combines stereotypical representations of three kinds of language variation in Europe with early attestations of French-based Creole languages across a period of 400 years. It is intended to facilitate future research on the continuity between contact situations in Europe and Creolophone (former) colonies.