LINGUIST List 17.1830

Mon Jun 19 2006

FYI: A Lexical Database for French: Lexique 3

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Directory         1.    Boris New, A Lexical Database for French: Lexique 3

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Message 1: A Lexical Database for French: Lexique 3
Date: 17-Jun-2006
From: Boris New <new.borisuniv-paris5.fr>
Subject: A Lexical Database for French: Lexique 3


Lexique 3 available at www.lexique.org is an open-source database forFrench. Including Lexique 2 and 3, it describes 55 000 lexical roots, andmore than 135 000 lexical entries.

For each form, it gives its:- Pronunciation (with syllable informations)- Part Of Speech- Gender, number- Written frequency, estimates of spoken frequency- Lemma frequency- Identification point- Number of neighbors- Letters, bigrams, trigrams, and phonemes frequencies are also available.- etc.

Furthermore, we have developped an online tool with which you caninterrogate simultaneously several databases concerning French (Lexique,Manulex (children frequencies), Brulex, subjective AoA, subjectivefrequencies, etc.)

We also developped other resources such as:-a French corpus of 37 million words-a database concerning first names-a database concerning neighbors-we make available the spoken frequencies from Gougenheim-gnu tools distribution for windows users-etc.

Lexique 3 is an open-source project. Feel free to participate!!

Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography