Anne Abeillé

Also published as: Anne Abeille


2022

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Objectifying Women? A Syntactic Bias in French and English Corpora.
Yanis da Cunha | Anne Abeillé
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technology and Resources for a Fair, Inclusive, and Safe Society within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

Gender biases in syntax have been documented for languages with grammatical gender for cases where mixed-gender coordination structures take masculine agreement, or with male-first preference in the ordering of pairs (Adam and Eve). On the basis of various annotated corpora spanning different genres (fiction, newspapers, speech and web), we show another syntactic gender bias: masculine pronouns are more often subjects than feminine pronouns, in both English and French. We find the same bias towards masculine subjects for French human nouns, which then refer to males and females. Comparing the subject of passive verbs and the object of active verbs, we show that this syntactic function bias is not reducible to a bias in semantic role assignment since it is also found with non-agentive subjects. For French fiction, we also found that the masculine syntactic function bias is larger in text written by male authors – female authors seem to be unbiased. We finally discuss two principles as possible explanations, ‘Like Me’ and ‘Easy first’, and examine the effect of the discourse tendency for men being agents and topics. We conclude by addressing the impact of such biases in language technologies.

2019

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Un corpus arboré pour le français : le French Treebank [A parsed corpus for French: the French treebank]
Anne Abeillé | Lionel Clément | Loïc Liégeois
Traitement Automatique des Langues, Volume 60, Numéro 2 : Corpus annotés [Annotated corpora]

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Extracting out of the subject in French: experimental evidence
Anne Abeillé | Elodie Winckel
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (Quasy, SyntaxFest 2019)

2013

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Towards a treebank of spoken French (Vers un treebank du français parlé) [in French]
Anne Abeillé | Benoit Crabbé
Proceedings of TALN 2013 (Volume 1: Long Papers)

2010

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The Grande Grammaire du Français Project
Anne Abeillé | Danièle Godard
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)

We present a new reference Grammar of French (La Grande Grammaire du français), which is a collective project (gathering around fifty contributors), producing a book (about 2200 pages, to be published en 2011) and associated databases. Like the recent reference grammars of the other Romance Languages, it takes into account the important results of the linguistic research of the past thrity years, while aiming at a non specialist audience and avoiding formalization. We differ from existing French grammar by being focused on contemporary French from a purely descriptive point of view, and by taking spoken data into account. We include a description of all the syntactic phenomena, as well as lexical, semantic, pragmatic and prosodic insights, specially as they interact with syntax. The analysis concerns the data from contemporary written French, but also includes data from spoken corpora and regional or non standard French (when accessible). Throughout the grammar, a simple phrase structure grammar is used, in order to maintain a common representation. The analyses are modular with a strict division of labor between morphology, syntax and semantics. From the syntactic point of view, POS are also distinguished from grammatical relations (or functions). The databases include a terminological glossary, different lexical databases for certain POS, certain valence frames and certain semantic classes, and a bibliographical database.

2004

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Enriching a French Treebank
Anne Abeillé | Nicolas Barrier
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04)

2001

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Un corpus français arboré : quelques interrogations
Anne Abeillé | Lionel Clément | Alexandra Kinyon | François Toussenel
Actes de la 8ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles longs

Dans cet article nous présentons les premiers résultats de l’exploitation d’un Corpus français arboré (Abeillé et al., 2001). Le corpus comprend 1 million de mots entièrement annotés et validé pour les parties du discours, la morphologie, les mots composés et les lemmes, et partiellement annotés pour les constituants syntaxiques. Il comprend des extraits de journaux parus entre 1989 et 1993 et écrits par divers auteurs, et couvre différents thèmes (économie, littérature, politique, etc.). Après avoir expliqué comment ce corpus a été construit, et comment l’exploiter à l’aide d’un outil de recherche spécifique, nous exposerons quelques résultats linguistiques concernant les fréquences et les préférences lexicales et syntaxiques. Nous expliquerons pourquoi nous pensons que certains de ces résultats sont pertinents en linguistique théorique et en psycholinguistique.

2000

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Proceedings of the COLING-2000 Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora
Anne Abeille | Thorsten Brants | Hans Uszkoreit
Proceedings of the COLING-2000 Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora

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The current status of FTAG
Anne Abeillé | Marie-Hélène Candito | Alexandra Kinyon
Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Frameworks (TAG+5)

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Building a Treebank for French
Anne Abeillé | Lionel Clément | Alexandra Kinyon
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’00)

1998

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Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks (TAG+4)
Anne Abeillé | Tilman Becker | Giorgio Satta | K. Vijay-Shanker
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks (TAG+4)

1992

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Synchronous TAGs and French Pronominal Clitics
Anne Abeille
COLING 1992 Volume 1: The 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1990

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Using Lexicalized Tags for Machine Translation
Anne Abeille | Yves Schabes | Aravind K. Joshi
COLING 1990 Volume 3: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

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French and English determiners: Interaction of morphology, syntax and semantics in Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars
Anne Abeillé
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Frameworks (TAG+1)

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Lexical and Syntactic Rules in a Tree Adjoining Grammar
Anne Abeille
28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1989

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Parsing Idioms in Lexicalized TAGs
Anne Abeille | Yves Schabes
Fourth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Lexicalized TAGs, Parsing and Lexicons
Anne Abeille | Kathleen Bishop | Sharon Cote | Aravind K. Joshi | Yves Schabes
Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 21-23, 1989

1988

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Parsing French with Tree Adjoining Grammar: some linguistic accounts
Anne Abeille
Coling Budapest 1988 Volume 1: International Conference on Computational Linguistics

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Parsing Strategies with ‘Lexicalized’ Grammars: Application to Tree Adjoining Grammars
Yves Schabes | Anne Abeille | Aravind K. Joshi
Coling Budapest 1988 Volume 2: International Conference on Computational Linguistics