European Language Equality - Report on the French Language

Éditeurs scientifiques : Maria Giagkou, Stelios Piperidis, Georg Rehm, Jane DunneThis report presents a survey of the current state of technologies for the automatic processing of the French language as well as French Sign Language (FSL). Similar reports have been prepared independently for all languages of the European Union. It is based on a thorough analysis of existing tools and resources for French, and also provides an accurate presentation of the domain and of its main stakeholders. This report is organized in three main parts: first, two background sections that document notably the presence of French on the internet, as well as defining in broad terms the domain of language technologies. The core of the report is made of the following two sections, describing respectively the state of play for French and French sign language. The last two sections first summarize the main findings of a quantitative analysis performed within the ELE project; then spell out some general conclusions and formulate a series of recommendations, the implementation of which could improve the current technological support for French and FSL