Multidimensional Analysis based on morpho-lexical Features: The Example of a 19th Century regional Press Corpus along with its Columns

This paper, presenting our contribution to the thematic conference 2008 of the CBL/BKL, offers a methodological approach of an endogen characterization of the columns of a 19th century regional newspaper, named Le Petit Comtois (1883-1903). In such a context, we propose to assess the complementarity of the morphosyntactical level and the lexical one. Some 29,676 articles were thus tagged by Cordial as far as the morphosyntactical level is concerned. Methodogically speaking, the task of a multidimensional analysis based on morphosyntactical features requires to select appropriate descriptors and to proceed to a result validation. To that end, this work aims notably at resorting to the pattern (motif), an operant object indebted to Longree, D., Luong, X., Mellet, S. (2008) as a recurring element of orderly structures in the text.