La représentation des verbes dans le réseau sémantique WordNet

Semantic nets are one of several ways of representing concepts and the words that lexicalize them. I outline here the design of WordNet, a lexical database for English. The article will focus on the treatment of verbs, whose lexical semantics tend to be highly complex. In examining a number of particular cases, I discuss the conceptual and lexical relations that link verbs in WordNet and draw comparisons with other lexical semantic approaches to the verb lexicon and specific verb classes.