The
Lefff
(Lexique des Formes Fléchies du Français / Lexicon of French inflected forms)
is a large-scale morphological and syntactic lexicon for French,
distributed under the LGPL-LR free software license (Lesser
General Public License For Linguistic Resources).
The Lefff
is developed within the Alexina
architecture
(Architecture pour les LEXiques INformatiques et leur Acquisition / Architecture for digital lexica
and their acquisition), in parallel with other lexicons that use the same format
(in particular the Leffe, for Spanish). This architecture consists of two levels:
- the intensional lexicon,
which describes for each entry its lemma (canonical form + inflection table)
as well as deep syntax information (deep sub-categorization frame + possible
realizations + possible restructurations)
- the extensional
lexicon, built automatically by compilation of the intensional lexicon;
this generation process includes an inflection step, depending on the inflection
class associated with the intensional entry, then step for constructing
the different syntactic structures (one for each relevant restructuration) associated with each
inflected form (syntactic information may vary from one form to another, in particular
for infinitive and participe forms, and from one restructuration to another).
Lexical information included in the Lefff originate
in different works:
- automatic
acquisition
(with manual validation) thanks to statistical techniques applied
on raw corpora (Clément, Sagot and Lang 2004, Sagot
2005),
- automatic acquisition (with manual validation)
of specific syntactic information (Sagot 2006 (PhD dissertation), ch 7)
- manual correction
and extension guided by automatic techniques,
such as error mining in parsing results (Sagot and de La Clergerie, 2006),
- comparaison
with other ressources, and in particular with Lexicon-Grammar Tables:
impersonnal constructions, adverbs in -ment,
several classes of frozen verbal expressions (Sagot and Danlos 2006,
Danlos and Sagot 2007, Sagot and Danlos 2007, Sagot and Fort 2007) ;
moreover, a certain amount of nominal and adjectival entries have their
origin in the Multext morphological lexicon for French (Véronis 1998).
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