Towards a lexicon of event-selecting predicates for a French FactBank

Ingrid Falk (1) , Fabienne Martin (1)

1 Universität Stuttgart [Stuttgart]

This paper presents ongoing work for the construction of a French FactBank and a lexicon of French event-selecting predicates (ESPs), by applying the factuality detection algorithm introduced in (Saurí and Pustejovsky, 2012). This algorithm relies on a lexicon of ESPs, specifying how these predicates influence the factuality of their embedded events. For this pilot study, we focused on French factive and implicative verbs, and capitalised on a lexical resource for the English counterparts of these verbs provided by the CSLI Group (Nairn et al., 2006; Karttunen, 2012).

Mots clés: factuality; event selecting predicates; factive and implicative predicates

Domaines: Traitement du texte et du document; Informatique; Linguistique; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Ingrid Falk, Fabienne Martin. Towards a lexicon of event-selecting predicates for a French FactBank. Workshop Computational Semantics Beyond Events and Roles, Association for Computational Linguistics, Apr 2017, Valencia, Spain. ⟨hal-01502621⟩