Anne Abeillé
Anne Abeillé is a linguist whose French Treebank supplies annotated French sentences for language technologies. She studied modern literature, worked with Aravind Joshi on lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar, and earned a doctorate at Paris 7 in 1991. Her treebank supports machine translation and annotation tools; she co-directed La Grande Grammaire du français and authored La grammaire se rebelle. She received CNRS bronze and silver medals, joined Academia Europaea in 2008, and is a professor of linguistics at Université Paris Cité as of October 2026.
- Now at
- Université Paris Cité and Université Paris 8
- Works
- 321
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Timeline
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1983–1991
Studying at ENS and Penn
She studies modern literature at the École normale supérieure from 1983 to 1987, then works with Aravind Joshi at the University of Pennsylvania on Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar. She completes a doctorate and habilitation at Paris 7 in 1991.
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1991–2000
University posts in Paris
She is associate professor at Paris 8 from 1991 to 1994 and Paris 7 from 1994 to 2000, then becomes professor of linguistics in 2000.
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1995–2007
Two CNRS research medals
She receives the CNRS bronze medal in 1995 and the silver medal in 2007.
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Since 1997
The French Treebank
She develops the French Treebank at the Formal Linguistics Laboratory from 1997. The manually validated corpus has 21,550 annotated sentences and supports machine translation, deep-learning applications, and training annotation programs.
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2008
Academia Europaea membership
She is elected as an ordinary member of Academia Europaea in 2008.
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2021–2025
Co-directing a French grammar
She co-directs La Grande Grammaire du français, published in October 2021 as a descriptive reference on contemporary spoken and written French. In 2023, she publishes Le français va très bien, merci with the Linguistes atterrées. In October 2025, she is scheduled to take part in a public conversation about language change at the Cité internationale de la langue française.
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March 2026
La grammaire se rebelle
In March 2026, she publishes her book La grammaire se rebelle, about French grammar and everyday language use.
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As of October 2026
Professor at Université Paris Cité
She is a professor of linguistics at Université Paris Cité. She is scheduled to discuss French grammar at a university seminar in December 2026.
Career
- NowUniversité Paris CitéProfessor of Linguistics
- From 1997Formal Linguistics Laboratory
- 1994–2000Université Paris DiderotAssociate Professor, Professor of Linguistics
- 1991–1994Université Paris 8Associate Professor
- 1987–1991University of Pennsylvania
Education
- 1991Université Paris DiderotDoctorate and habilitation
- 1987École Normale Supérieure
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