Entretiens / Interviews / EntrevistasLebert, Marie
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Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas
Lebert, Marie
Internet; World Wide Web
= Quels sont vos nouveaux projets?
- Le Catalogue critique des ressources textuelles sur internet (CCRTI), mis en
ligne en octobre 1999;
- Terminalf - Ressources terminologiques de la langue française, en cours de
réalisation.
= Que pensez-vous des débats liés au respect du droit d'auteur sur le web?
Comme tous les débats, il s'agit d'un débat confus et sans issue.
= Comment voyez-vous l'évolution vers un internet multilingue?
Les Européens font quelques efforts pour adopter au moins le bilinguisme. Et les
Américains?
= Quel est votre meilleur souvenir lié à l'internet?
La découverte de bons sites littéraires. Par exemple Zvi Har'El's Jules Verne
Collection, consacré à Jules Verne, ou le Théâtre de la foire à Paris (au 17e
siècle).
[EN] Arlette Attali (Paris)
#Head of Research and Internet Projects at the INaLF (Institut national de la
langue française - National Institute of the French Language)
The purpose of the INaLF -- part of the France's National Centre for Scientific
Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) -- is to design
research programmes on the French language, particularly its vocabulary. The
INaLF's constantly expanding and revised data, processed by special computer
systems, deal with all aspects of the French language: literary discourse
(14th-20th centuries), everyday language (written and spoken), scientific and
technical language (terminologies), and regional languages. This data, which is
an very important study resource, is made available to people interested in the
French language (teachers and researchers, business people, the service sector
and the general public) through publications and databases.
Frantext is one of the best French textual databases on the Internet. It is a
collection of about 3,000 digitized French texts from the 16th to the 20th
centuries, with a search facility (Stella) for literary, linguistic,
lexicographical, and stylistic research. The database, which was revamped in
1998, now has a more user-friendly interface, more efficient online help and
better computing tools. A second version is an experimental section of 400
grammaticaly-encoded novels of 19th and 20th centuries.
[Interview 11/06/1998 // Interview 17/01/2000]
*Interview of June 11, 1998 (original interview in French)
= How did using the Internet change your professional life?
At the INaLF, I was mostly building textual databases, so I had to explore
websites that gave access to electronic texts and test them. I became a "textual
tourist", which has good and bad sides. The tendency to go quickly from one link
to another and skip through the information was a permanent danger -- you have
to focus on what you're looking for so as not to waste time. Using the Web has
totally changed the way I work. My research is no longer just book-based and
thus limited, but is expanding thanks to the electronic texts available on the
Internet.
= What are your new projects?
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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