LexSchem: a Large Subcategorization Lexicon for French Verbs

Cédric Messiant, Thierry Poibeau, Anna Korhonen


Abstract
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.
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L08-1210
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Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)
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May
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2008
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Marrakech, Morocco
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Cédric Messiant, Thierry Poibeau, and Anna Korhonen. 2008. LexSchem: a Large Subcategorization Lexicon for French Verbs. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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LexSchem: a Large Subcategorization Lexicon for French Verbs (Messiant et al., LREC 2008)
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