Section: New Results

Verb$\ni$net

Participants : Lucie Barque, Laurence Danlos.

VerbNet is a lexical resource for English verbs in which verbs are grouped together based on their ability to appear in similar sets of syntactic frames that correspond as well to alternations exhibited by verbs as to alternative syntactic realizations (Kipper et al. 2004). A French Verbnet, named Verb$\ni$net, was first automatically derived from English VerbNet (Pradet et al., 2014) and is still under development. [13] details how Verb$\ni$net was developed from the English VerbNet while using as far as possible the available lexical resources for French and how the various French alternations are coded, focusing on differences with English (e.g. existence of pronominal forms). One difficulty encountered in the development of Verb$\ni$net springs from the fact that the list of (potentially numerous) frames has no internal organization in VerbNet. [26] proposes a type system for frames that shows whether two frames are variants of a given alternation. Frame typing facilitates coherence checking of the resource in a “virtuous circle”.