Section: Software

The free French wordnet WOLF

Participants : Benoît Sagot [correspondant] , Marianna Apidianaki.

The WOLF (Wordnet Libre du Français) is a wordnet for French, i.e., a lexical semantic database. The development of WOLF started in 2008 [113] , [8] . At this time, we focused on benefitting 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. Since 2008, work specific to each of both resources has been done [114] , but since end-2010 the collaboration has been re-activated. This is due among others to the fact that the joint development of WOLF and sloWNet is one of the main objectives of the two-year PROTEUS bilateral PHC project co-headed by Benoît Sagot (2010-2011, see section  8.3.2 ). Moreover, the EDyLex project also contributed to funding the improvement of the WOLF, in particular through the work of Marianna Apidianaki.

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