and textual analysis: Frantext, TLFi, and the software Stella

This paper presents some of the computerized linguistic resources of the Research Laboratory ATILF (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française) available via the Web, and will serve as a helping document for demonstrations planned within the framework of LREC 2002. The Research Laboratory ATILF is the new UMR (Unité Mixte de Recherche) created in association between the CNRS and the University of Nancy 2 since 2001-January 2nd, and succeeds to the local component of the INaLF situated in Nancy. This considerable amount of resources concerning French language consists in a set of more than 3400 literary works grouped together in Frantext, plus a number of dictionaries, lexis and other databases. These web available resources are operated and run through the potentialities and powerful capacities of a software called Stella, a search engine specially dedicated to textual databases and relying on a new theory of textual objects. 1