Syntactic annotation of spoken French: ORFEO's choices

This article presents the syntactic annotation choices for the ORFEO project. A corpus of Spoken French of more than 180 000 words was manually annotated in dependency syntax, then a 3 M word corpus was automatically parsed. The annotation choices are compared with those of the RHAPSODIE project, which preceded ORFEO, with UNIVERSAL DEPENDENCIES (UD), which started shortly after ORFEO, and with SURFACE-SYNTACTIC UD (SUD), which synthesizes ORFEO and UD'S choices. oRFEo is characterized by a consideration of macrosyntax and list phenomena, as well as a restricted tag set that allowed a quick and more easily reproducible annotation.