Section:
New Results
Development of Verbnet
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] . Verbnet 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.