HAL Open ScienceProjects and data
Here is a brief description of the main funded and non-funded projects I’ve been or still am involved with. When available, a link to their official website and their related data repositories is provided.
Demonette
Demonette is a French morphological database developped during the Demonext project funded by the French ANR (ANR-17-CE23-0005). Descriptions and Data are available on the Demonext website.
I contributed to the Demonext project as a post-doctoral fellow at the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF) at the Université Paris Cité (France). The objective of my post-doc was to provide a computational and quantitative exploitation of this resource. More specifically, I investigated two main cases of affix rivalry in French: feminine agentive suffixes -euse and -rice, and demonym-coining suffixes -ais, -éen, -ien and -ois. Demonym rivalry was investigated through the statistical modelling of the interaction of phonological, morphological and geographical features. The study of -euse and -rice rivalry was led based on semantic and morphological properties, and most specifically through the use of word embeddings both in a classification task and a qualitative analysis of the vector space.
Articles recounting each study are currently under review. Data specific to the -euse and -rice rivalry study are available below.
Morphosemantic demotivation
While working on my PhD thesis at the Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès (France), I initiated and contributed to an international collaboration with the University of Fribourg through the funding program Partenariat Hubert Curien. This collaboration was built on the study of morphosemantic demotivation with both an experimental and a distributional approach. The aim was to explore the gradualness of the phenomenon, and to propose a measure of demotivation.
An article is currently under press. Material and hypotheses regarding this project can be found on the corresponding OSF page.
French deverbal nouns semantics
I am involved in the Swiss funded project No. 100012_188782 (coordinated by Richard Huyghe) on the semantics of deverbal nouns in French. Most specifically, I work on the data selection and the morphological annotation.
PhD Thesis
My thesis investigated the semantics of morphological derivatives in French. It provided insights both on the use of distributional semantics in a linguistic perspective, and on sematic specificities of known rival affixes, such as -euse and -rice for agent nouns, or -age, -ion and -ment for action nouns.
All the data and code used and produced during my PhD thesis are available below.
Non-funded collaborations
I’ve had international collaborations with Richard Hugyhe (Fribourg University) on French agent nouns, tackling the semantic et morphological delimitation of the lexical class of agent nouns, and the affix rivalry realized within this lexical class. That led to publications in Morphology, Word Structure and Verbum, which data can be found at the links below.
Access data for Word Structure
ViLing
I’m undertaking a personal side project on the textual intradegetic content of video games. Eventually, I’d like to tackle the sociolinguistics variation at stake within RPGs, but as a start, I investigated the textual genres specificities of The Elder Scrolls intradiegetic texts.