Section: New Software and Platforms

The free French wordnet WOLF

Participants : Benoît Sagot [correspondant] , Valérie Hanoka.

The WOLF (Wordnet Libre du Français) is a wordnet for French, i.e., a lexical semantic database. The development of WOLF started in 2008 [112] , [113] . 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 [114] .

In 2014, updated betas of the new version of the WOLF have been published (now version 1.0b4), which integrates and extends the various efforts performed and published somewhat independently in 2012, together with the result of additional filtering, both manual and semi-automatic.

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