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Using NooJ to Formalize French Cooking Expressions

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Formalizing Natural Languages: Applications to Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities (NooJ 2021)

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Abstract

Our study fits the teaching method FOS [27] for Chinese cookers who come to work in French restaurants or who have chosen catering as a specialty. French gastronomy is internationally renowned, and the expressions of the cooking dishes often have informative and explanatory functions, and the large number of expressions of the cooking dishes that have the same structure (nominal group + à la/à l ’/ au/aux + name) attract our attention. Before teaching these expressions to our learners, the extraction of these expressions constitutes the problem of our study. Indeed, the extraction of multiple words sequences is also a problem in NLP (automatic language processing). In order to choose an appropriate software for our study, in this article, we first modeled the lexical data of these expressions of dishes having the same structure (nominal group + à la/à l ’/ au/aux + name) to choose NooJ as our appropriate software from among NLP extraction software. Then, we implemented the lexical data in NooJ by developing some grammars in the form of a transducer and will compile our data respecting the codes of the NooJ, in particular the operator + EXCLUDE (prefixed by the character “/”) and the colored nodes (prefixed by the character “:”). Finally, the result of our extraction with NooJ was satisfactory for teaching.

This article is supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (JB2021059).

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    These twenty short films are made within the framework of partnership agreements with the Marguerite Yourcenar hotel school in Beuvry (The town of Beuvry is located in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region). These videos were donated by J-M. Mangiante.

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    Lexicoscope, an online tool for studying combinatorial profiles and extracting lexico-syntactic constructs: http://phraseotext.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/lexicoscope/ (accessed 08/10/2020).

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Yang, T. (2021). Using NooJ to Formalize French Cooking Expressions. In: Bigey, M., Richeton, A., Silberztein, M., Thomas, I. (eds) Formalizing Natural Languages: Applications to Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities. NooJ 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1520. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92861-2_13

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