Towards the establishment of a LMF-based Wolof language lexicon (Vers la mise en place d'un lexique basé sur LMF pour la langue wolof) [in French]

Wolof is the most widely spoken language in Senegal, but its effective use in education and training requires the development of NLP tools which is based on lexicon. Unfortunately such a lexicon does not exist and its implementation, requires prior linguistic study of the data structure of the language. However, such work has been done for the development of a lexical database for the Wolof language (Cissé et al. 2007). The latter is in the form of lexical records where rehearsals are noted at the inputs. In addition, some morphological information of the lexeme (inflected and derived forms) are not represented. The objective of this paper is to develop a lexicon for language Wolof starting the restructuring work done in (Cissé et al. 2007) but in providing solutions to the problems mentioned above. Mots-clés : TALN, modèle, lexique, XML, LMF.