title: Lexique 2: a new French lexical database.
abstract: In this article, we present a new lexical database for French: Lexique. In addition to classical word information such as gender, number, and grammatical category, Lexique includes a series of interesting new characteristics. First, word frequencies are based on two cues: a contemporary corpus of texts and the number of Web pages containing the word. Second, the database is split into a graphemic table with all the relevant frequencies, a table structured around lemmas (particularly interesting for the study of the inflectional family), and a table about surface frequency cues. Third, Lexique is distributed under a GNU-like license, allowing people to contribute to it. Finally, a metasearch engine, Open Lexique, has been developed so that new databases can be added very easily to the existing ones. Lexique can either be downloaded or interrogated freely from http://www.lexique.org.
authors.affiliation: Royal Holloway, University of London, London, England. boris.new@univ-paris5.fr
authors.forename: Boris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: New
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pallier
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brysbaert
authors.forename: Ludovic
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ferrand
mesh_terms: D019992:Databases as Topic; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D011578:Psycholinguistics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014825:Vocabulary