The ARTFL Project

The ARTFL Project

Editor(s): 
Robert Morrissey

The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) is a cooperative enterprise of Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française (ATILF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Division of the Humanities, the Division of the Social Sciences, and Electronic Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago. It was created in 1981 to provide access to FRANTEXT, a corpus of some 2,000 texts representing a broad range of written French from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. The ARTFL Project has since expanded to include numerous other databases in French and many other languages. ARTFL is also recognized for its open-source full-text retrieval and analysis search engine PhiloLogic. In addition to its main databases (the Encyclopédie, FRANTEXT, French Women Writers, etc). an ARTFL subscription also includes access to the full-text of its considerable French dictionary and reference collection—Dictionnaires d'autrefois—as well as collections of Provençal Poetry and Old French literary texts. Currently, over three hundred North American institutions subscribe to the ARTFL Project.