Conversion of Lexicon‐Grammar Tables to LMF: Application to French
Éric Laporte, Elsa Tolone, Matthieu Constant · 2013
This chapter describes the first experiment in the conversion of Lexicon-Grammar (LG) tables for French verbs into the Lexical Markup Framework (LMF) format. The LG of the French language is currently one of the major sources of lexical and syntactic information for French. Its conversion into an interoperable representation format according to the LMF standard makes it usable in different contexts, thus contributing to the standardization and interoperability of Natural Language Processing (NLP) dictionaries. The chapter briefly introduces the LG and the derived dictionaries; it analyzes the main difficulties faced during the conversion, and it describes the resulting resource. Lexical entries point to subcategorization frame sets through identifiers. The SubcategorizationFrameSet class has an attribute that lists spaceseparated identifiers of subcategorizationFrame elements.