A generic tool to generate a lexicon for NLP from Lexicon-Grammar tables

Mathieu Constant (1) , Elsa Tolone (2)

1 LIGM - Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard-Monge
2 Equipe d'Informatique Linguistique - Grupo de Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural (PLN)

Lexicon-Grammar tables constitute a large-coverage syntactic lexicon but they cannot be directly used in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications because they sometimes rely on implicit information. In this paper, we introduce LGExtract, a generic tool for generating a syntactic lexicon for NLP from the Lexicon-Grammar tables. It is based on a global table that contains undefined information and on a unique extraction script including all operations to be performed for all tables. We also present an experiment that has been conducted to generate a new lexicon of French verbs and predicative nouns.

Mots clés: syntactic lexicon; Lexicon-Grammar; NLP

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]; Linguistique; Informatique

Mathieu Constant, Elsa Tolone. A generic tool to generate a lexicon for NLP from Lexicon-Grammar tables. Michele De Gioia. Actes du 27e Colloque international sur le lexique et la grammaire (L'Aquila, 10-13 septembre 2008). Seconde partie, volume 1, 1, Aracne, pp.79-93, 2010, Lingue d'Europa e del Mediterraneo, Grammatica comparata, 978-88-548-3166-7. ⟨hal-00483662⟩