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| Title | ARTFL: A Textual Database of French |
| Body | From http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/artfl.flyer.html In 1957 the French government initiated the creation of a new dictionary of the French language, the Trésor de la Langue Française. In order to provide access to a large body of word samples, it was decided to transcribe an extensive selection of French texts for use with a computer. At present the corpus consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. ARTFL has also recently added a Provençal database that includes 38 texts in their original spellings. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. Access to the database is organized through a consortium of user institutions, in most cases universities and colleges, each of which pay an annual subscription fee. Institutions which have doctoral programs in the humanities and social sciences pay only $500 per year; all other post-secondary institutions pay $250 annually. High Schools can now subscribe to ARTFL for $150 a year. An annual subscription allows all members of an institution (faculty, students, staff and other affiliates) unlimited Web access. Learn more about ARTFL and its resources at http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL . |
| Source | University of Chicago |
| Inputdate | 2009-01-24 07:13:08 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2009-01-24 07:13:08 |
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| Publishdate | 2009-01-26 00:00:00 |
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