Section: New Results

Development of Verb$\ni$net

Participants : Laurence Danlos, Quentin Pradet.

VerbNet is an English lexical resources for verbs, which is internationally known and widely used in numerous NLP applications [89] . Verb$\ni$net is a French adaptation of this resource. It is semi-automatically developed thanks to the use of two French existing resources created in the 70's: LG, Lexique-Grammaire developed at LADL under the supervision of Maurice Gross, and LVF, Lexique des verbs du français by Dubois and Dubois-Charlier. The idea is to map English classes, which gather verbs with a common syntactic and semantic behavior, into classes of LG and LVF, then to manually adapt the syntactic frames according to French grammar while keeping the thematic roles and the semantic information, [35] , [28] . This work is currently under progress in collaboration with Takuya Nakamura (Institut Gaspard Monge) and the resource should be freely available in 2015.