This is the French novel corpus for the ELTeC, the European Literary Text Collection, produced by the COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History (CA16204, https://distant-reading.net).
Note that this corpus is also available in a linguistically-annotated format prepared for direct import into the text analysis tool TXM; see here: 10.5281/zenodo.4274478. This format is based on v1.0.0 of the corpus.
General information about ELTeC releases is available at https://github.com/COST-ELTeC/ELTeC.
- v1.0.0, November 2020: This release includes 100 novels in level 1 encoding. With this release, a corpus compliance score (E5C) of 100 was reached. The DOI of this release release is: 10.5281/zenodo.4264647
- v0.9.1, June 2020: This release includes 100 novels in level 1 encoding. Some further enhancements remain planned as work towards v1.0.0. See: v0.9.1 and issues in milestone v1.0.0. The E5C score of this release is 97.7/100.
- v0.9.0, May 2020: There are now 100 novels in level 1 encoding. The corpus composition criteria are met and major bugs are fixed, but some enhancements are still planned as work towards v1.0.0. See: v0.9.0 and issues in milestone v1.0.0.
- v0.8.0 (deprecated), November 2019: The corpus contains 82 novels encoded at level 1. The corpus composition criteria are not yet fully fulfilled.
- Collection editors: Christof Schöch and Lou Burnard
- Contributors: Pia Geißel, Rezearta Murati, Evegnia Fileva
- Sources: Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica), Ebooks libres et gratuits / Bibliothèque électronique du Québec, CLiGS textbox, Wikisource, Bibebook.com, Atramenta, OBVIL, Project Gutenberg.
All texts included in this collection are in the public domain. No claim to copyright or similar protections is made for the composition of the corpus, the collection and presentation of the metadata, or the transcription and encoding of the texts.
If you use this corpus in your research or teaching, please follow good scholarly practice and use the following citation suggestion to acknowledge your source:
- French Novel Collection (ELTeC-fra), edited by Christof Schöch and Lou Burnard. Version v1.0.0, November 2020. In: European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC). COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4264647
@misc{schoech_ELTeCfra_2020,
title = {French Novel Collection (ELTeC-fra)},
inbook = {European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC)}
editor = {Schöch, Christof and Burnard, Lou},
version = {v1.0.0},
year = {2020},
month = {November},
publisher = {COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History}
url = {https://github.com/COST-ELTeC/ELTeC-fra/},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4264647},
}