ALMeD: Medieval French Gold-Standard

Medieval French is one of the Romance vernacular languages with a significant history of transmission and an enormous influence on other vernacular languages of the time. The sources convey valuable knowledge about all aspects of culture. The study of Medieval French has, over the last few years, increasingly benefited from NLP-based methods. There have been numerous efforts to parse medieval French; however, these efforts use corpora comprising legal texts and -- primarily -- literary texts as their foundation and training data. This means that, except for juridical resources, scientific literature is overlooked. We present ALMeD, an annotated, semantically rich corpus (work-in-progress) of medical and surgical treatises produced in medieval French, i.e., Old and Middle French, including Anglo-Norman. Our semantically disambiguated gold standard goes beyond existing resources, focusing on medical terminology, and accounts for morphological development, evolving syntactical structures and the lack of spelling normalisation in these languages.