Anne Abeillé

Anne Abeillé (born 13 September 1962 in Paris) is a French linguist specialising in French grammar and syntactic theory, in particular constraint-based grammar, as well as natural language processing. She led the creation of the French Treebank, the first syntactically annotated corpus of French.

Biography From 1983 to 1987, Abeillé studied at the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, where she graduated in modern literature. She then taught at Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis and Paris Diderot University before becoming full professor at the latter in 2000, as well as member of the Formal Linguistics Laboratory of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, which she has headed since 2011. 2008 also saw her knighted as a member of the Legion of Honour, of which she became an officer in 2015.

Selected publications Schabes, Yves, Anne Abeillé and Aravind K Joshi. 1988. Parsing Strategies With 'Lexicalized' Grammars: Application to Tree Adjoining Grammars. CIS Technical Reports, University of Pennsylvania. Abeillé, Anne. 1993. Les nouvelles syntaxes : grammaires d'unification et analyse du français (New syntaxes: constraint-based grammars and the analysis of French). Coll. Linguistique, Armand Colin, Paris. Rastier, François, Marc Cavazza and Anne Abeillé. 1994. Sémantique pour l'analyse: de la linguistique à l'informatique (Semantics for descriptions: from linguistics to computer science). Masson: Sciences cognitives. . English translation published with CSLI Publications in 2002, Abeillé, Anne, and Owen Rambow (eds.). 2000. Tree Adjoining Grammars: Formalism, linguistic analysis and processing. Stanford: CSLI Publications. Abeillé, Anne. 2002. Une grammaire électronique du français (An electronic grammar of French). Coll. Sciences du langage, Paris: CNRS Editions. Abeillé, Anne (ed.). 2003. Treebanks: building and using parsed corpora. Dordrecht: Springer. Abeillé, Anne, Lionel Clément and François Toussenel. 2003. Building a treebank of French. In Abeillé (ed.), 165–187. Abeillé, Anne. 2007. Les grammaires d’unification (Constraint-based grammars). London: Hermes. Abeillé, Anne, and Olivier Bonami (eds.). 2020. Constraint-Based Syntax and Semantics: Papers in Honor of Danièle Godard. Stanford: CSLI Publications. Abeillé, Anne, and Danièle Godard. 2021. La Grande Grammaire du français (Comprehensive French Grammar). Actes Sud, Editions de l’Imprimerie Nationale.