Section: Software and Platforms

The free French wordnet WOLF

Participants : Benoît Sagot [correspondant] , Sarah Beniamine.

The WOLF (Wordnet Libre du Français) is a wordnet for French, i.e., a lexical semantic database. The development of WOLF started in 2008 [82] , [83] . At this time, we focused on benefiting from available resources of three different types: general and domain-specific bilingual dictionaries, multilingual parallel corpora and Wiki resources (Wikipedia and Wiktionaries). This work was achieved in a large part in collaboration with Darja Fišer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), in parallel with the development of a free Slovene wordnet, sloWNet. However, it was also impacted by specific collaborations, e.g., on adverbial synsets [84] .

In 2013, a beta version of a new version of WOLF (version 1.0b2) was published, which integrates and extends the various efforts performed and published somewhat independently in 2012.

The WOLF is freely available under the Cecill-C license. It has already been used in various experiments, within and outside Alpage.