Re: Corpora: French and English Lexicons

Jean Veronis (Jean.Veronis@lpl.univ-aix.fr)
Sun, 13 Dec 1998 16:46:10 +0100

At 13:54 11/12/98 +0000, David Mowatt wrote:

>Can anyone recommend any free downloadable:
>French or English morphological lexica ?
>French or English POS lexica ?

You can look at the French and English lexicons I recently gave to ELRA for
distribution. They are not entirely free, but very cheap (45 ECU for
members, 100 ECU for non-members). See info below.

>French/English bilingual lexica ?

No idea on this one, but I am interested too.

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MULTEXT Lexicons

This CD-ROM contains a set of lexicons developed in the MULTEXT project
financed by the European Commission (LRE 62-050). The set contains the
following languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

English 66,214 Word forms
French 306,795 Word forms
German 233,861 Word forms
Italian 145,530 Word forms
Spanish 510,710 Word forms

The MULTEXT lexicons are three-columns tables, separated with a tabulation:
the first column contains the word-form, the second column contains the
lemma, and the third column contains the morpho-syntactic information
associated to that form. This information is conformant with the
MULTEXT/EAGLES specifications.

Additional information

http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/projects/multext

Price for ELRA members
for research use: 45 ECU
for commercial use: 2,000 ECU

Price for non members
for research use: 100 ECU
for commercial use: 5,000 ECU

contact:

Valerie Mapelli Tel: +33 1 43 13 33 33
ELRA/ELDA Fax: +33 1 43 13 33 30
55-57 rue Brillat Savarin E-mail: info-elra@calva.net
75013 PARIS http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA

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Jean Véronis, Professeur de Linguistique et Informatique

Directeur du Centre Informatique pour les Lettres et Sciences Humaines
Université de Provence
29 av. Robert Schuman
13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1, France

tel: +33 (0) 4 42 95 31 35
fax: +33 (0) 4 42 59 50 96
email: Jean.Veronis@lpl.univ-aix.fr