Towards the computational analysis of a peripheral literary tradition: The case of Alsatian theater

Dialect theater in Alsatian (a set of Germanic varieties spoken in Alsace, Eastern France) is a rich tradition that, unlike the major European dramatic traditions, has not been explored so far using computational means. Our project, called MeThaL (Towards a Macroanalysis of Theater in Alsatian) is creating the first large publicly available corpus of Alsatian theater encoded in TEI. In this session we first present our corpus development method to go from paper or digitized sources to TEI-encoded plays. Then we present our work on character analysis and emotion analysis on the material.