Lexical acquisition from corpora: the case of subcategorization frames in French Acquisition de connaissances lexicales à partir de corpus : la sous-catégorisation verbale en fran ais

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.