WoNeF : amélioration, extension et évaluation d'une traduction française automatique de WordNet

WoNeF, an improved, extended and evaluated automatic French translation of WordNet Identifying the various possible meanings of each word of the vocabulary is a difficult problem that requires a lot of manual work. It has been tackled by the WordNet lexical semantics database in English, but there are still few resources available for other languages. Automatic translations of WordNet have been tried to many target languages such as French. JAWS is such an automatic translation of WordNet nouns to French using bilingual dictionaries and a syntactic langage model. We improve the existing translation precision and coverage, complete it with translations of verbs and adjectives and enhance its evaluation method, demonstrating the validity of the approach. In addition to the main result called WoNeF, we produce two additional versions : a high-precision version with 93% precision (up to 97% on nouns) and a high-coverage version with 109,447 (literal, synset) pairs.

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