Inferring a Semantically Annotated Generative French Lexicon from an Italian Lexical Resource

The paper reports on the development and experimental implementation of a combined methodology of knowledge transfer from an existing lexical resource with a view to semiautomatically inducing a new lexicon, in a cross-language environment. The source resource, a multi-layered Italian lexicon whose theoretical approach to the content and representation of semantic information follows the general principles of Generative Lexicon, is first sketched out. The two strategies used for generating French semantic entries, namely the cognate and sense indicator-based approaches, are then presented. The good results obtained from their implementation allow concluding on the viability of the proposed methodology.