Abstract
In this paper we present FLELex, the first graded lexicon for French as a foreign language (FFL) that reports word frequencies by difficulty level (according to the CEFR scale). It has been obtained from a tagged corpus of 777,000 words from available textbooks and simplified readers intended for FFL learners. Our goal is to freely provide this resource to the community to be used for a variety of purposes going from the assessment of the lexical difficulty of a text, to the selection of simpler words within text simplification systems, and also as a dictionary in assistive tools for writing.- Anthology ID:
- L14-1083
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2014
- Address:
- Reykjavik, Iceland
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3766–3773
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/1108_Paper.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Thomas François, Nùria Gala, Patrick Watrin, and Cédrick Fairon. 2014. FLELex: a graded lexical resource for French foreign learners. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 3766–3773, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- FLELex: a graded lexical resource for French foreign learners (François et al., LREC 2014)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/1108_Paper.pdf