Retrieving Information from the French Lexical Network in RDF/OWL Format

Alexsandro Fonseca, Fatiha Sadat, François Lareau

Abstract: 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.