In this paper, we present a Java API to retrieve the lexical information from the French Lexical Network, a lexical resource based on the Meaning-Text Theory’s lexical functions, which was previously transformed to an RDF/OWL format. We present four API functions: one that returns all the lexical relations between two given vocables; one that returns all the lexical relations and the lexical functions modeling those relations for two given vocables; one that returns all the lexical relations encoded in the lexical network modeled by a specific lexical function; and one that returns the semantic perspectives for a specific lexical function. This API was used in the identification of collocations in a French corpus of 1.8 million sentences and in the semantic classification of these collocations.
@InProceedings{FONSECA18.1102, author = {Alexsandro Fonseca and Fatiha Sadat and François Lareau}, title = "{Retrieving Information from the French Lexical Network in RDF/OWL Format}", booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {May 7-12, 2018}, address = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9}, language = {english} }
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