JAWS : Just Another WordNet Subset

WordNet, one of the most used lexical resource until today has been made up for the English language and scientists working on other languages suffer from the lack of such a resource. Despite the efforts performed by the French community, the different WordNets produced for the French language are still not as exhaustive as the original Princeton WordNet. We propose a new approach in the way of producing nominal terms filling the synset slots. We use syntactical distributional properties of French vocabulary to determine which of the candidates given by a bilingual dictionary matches the best. We compare the resource we obtain with WOLF and show that our approach provides a much larger coverage. Mots-cles : ressources lexicales francaises, WordNet, relations semantiques, distributions syn- taxiques.