Giving Lexical Resources a Second Life: Démonette, a Multi-sourced Morpho-semantic Network for French

Nabil Hathout, Fiammetta Namer

Abstract
Démonette is a derivational morphological network designed for the description of French. Its original architecture enables its use as a formal framework for the description of morphological analyses and as a repository for existing lexicons. It is fed with a variety of resources, which all are already validated. The harmonization of their content into a unified format provides them a second life, in which they are enriched with new properties, provided these are deductible from their contents. Démonette is released under a Creative Commons license. It is usable for theoretical and descriptive research in morphology, as a source of experimental material for psycholinguistics, natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR), where it fills a gap, since French lacks a large-coverage derivational resources database. The article presents the integration of two existing lexicons into Démonette. The first is Verbaction, a lexicon of deverbal action nouns. The second is Lexeur, a database of agent nouns in -eur derived from verbs or from nouns.
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L16-1173
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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1084–1091
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Nabil Hathout and Fiammetta Namer. 2016. Giving Lexical Resources a Second Life: Démonette, a Multi-sourced Morpho-semantic Network for French. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 1084–1091, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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