LexSchem: A Large Subcategorization Lexicon for French Verbs

Cédric Messiant (1) , Thierry Poibeau (1)

1 LIPN - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord

This paper presents LexSchem – the first large, fully automatically acquired subcategorization lexicon for French verbs. The lexicon includes subcategorization frame and frequency information for 3297 French verbs. When evaluated on a set of 20 test verbs against a gold standard dictionary, it shows 0.79 precision, 0.55 recall and 0.65 F-measure. We have made this resource freely available to the research community on the web.

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Informatique; Linguistique; Linguistique

Cédric Messiant, Thierry Poibeau. LexSchem: A Large Subcategorization Lexicon for French Verbs. Language Resource and Evaluation conference, May 2008, Morocco. sans pagination. ⟨hal-00321437⟩