Lexical acquisition from corpora: the case of subcategorization frames in French

We present in this paper a method to automatically acquire a syntactic lexicon of subcategorization frames for French verbs directly from large corpora. The method is evaluated against existing lexical resources: we show that our system is capable of producing new frames that were not previously registered. Lastly, we show that it is possible to induce lexico-semantic classes « à la Levin » (1993) from these data. MOTS-CLÉS : lexique, verbe, sous-catégorisation, acquisition à partir de corpus.