GLÀFF, a Large Versatile French Lexicon

Nabil Hathout, Franck Sajous and Basilio Calderone 2014 Proceedings of the 9th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Reykjavik, Iceland 1007-1012 Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis European Language Resources Association (ELRA) 978-2-9517408-8-4 PDF article ] N. Hathout, F. Sajous and B. Calderone (2014). GLÀFF, a Large Versatile French Lexicon. Proceedings of the 9th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2014), pp. 1007-1012, Reykjavik, Iceland. .bib ] Phonetic Databases, Phonology, Morphology This paper introduces GLAFF, a large-scale versatile French lexicon extracted from Wiktionary, the collaborative online dictionary. GLAFF 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 GLAFF 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 GLAFF to become a reference lexicon for French NLP and linguistics. Moreover, other derived lexicons can easily be based on GLAFF to satisfy specific needs of various fields such as psycholinguistics.