Towards a lexicon of event-selecting predicates for a French FactBank
Ingrid Falk, Fabienne Martin · 2017
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).