GLÀFF, a Large Versatile French Lexicon
Nabil Hathout, Franck Sajous, Basilio Calderone · 2014
This paper introduces GL ÀFF, a large-scale versatile French lexicon extracted from Wiktionary, the collaborative online dictionary.GL ÀFF contains, for each entry, inflectional features and phonemic transcriptions.It distinguishes itself from the other available French lexicons by its size, its potential for constant updating and its copylefted license.We explain how we have built GL ÀFF and compare it to other known resources in terms of coverage and quality of the phonemic transcriptions.We show that its size and quality are strong assets that could allow GL ÀFF to become a reference lexicon for French NLP and linguistics.Moreover, other derived lexicons can easily be based on GL ÀFF to satisfy specific needs of various fields such as psycholinguistics.