FRIDA

The project FRIDA (Français, Rumantsch, Italiano and Deutsch for Analysis) is devoted to the creation of NL-UNL (analysis) dictionaries for the official languages of Switzerland.

Goal

The project FRIDA has two main goals:

1. To provide several word-to-concept monolingual databases (i.e., encoding or reader's dictionaries). These dictionaries are expected to be used in UNLization, i.e., in generating UNL graphs out of natural language documents, especially through IAN.
2. To find concepts that are not enclosed in the WordNet3.0 and should be incorporated to the UNL Dictionary.

Repository

The whole FRIDA contains, for each language, 30,000 lemmas, and is divided into 6 different repositories according to the frequency of use of lemmas.

• FRIDA-A1 contains the list of the 5,000 most frequent lemmas of the language (including articles, prepositions, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs, etc.);
• FRIDA-A2 contains the list of the following 5,000 most frequent lemmas of the language (including articles, prepositions, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs, etc.);

And so on, up to FRIDA-C2, according to the table below.

Repository	# of lemmas
FRIDA-A1	5,000
FRIDA-A2	5,000
FRIDA-B1	5,000
FRIDA-B2	5,000
FRIDA-C1	5,000
FRIDA-C2	5,000

Participants

• Anne-Sophie Gloor (French, Université de Genève)
• Anton Maria Prati (Italian, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
• Frank Brockmeier (German, Université de Lausanne)
• Katrin Renkwitz (German, Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
• Myriam Hilout (French, Université Paris XIII)
• Monica Gallo (Italian, Université de Genève)

Instructions

Lexical Category

Whenever the lexical category for a given lemma is provided, check whether it is correct. If it is not correct, decline the entry and report the problem by clicking over the yellow triangle at the right of the main entry. If the lexical category is not provided, select the most likely category. Do not worry about homonyms: provide one single category for a given main entry.

Lemma

Do not change the lemma. If it is not correct (i.e., if it is misspelled or cannot be considered to be a lexical unit), decline the entry and report the problem by clicking over the yellow triangle at the right of the main entry.

Provide as many UW's as necessary to each lemma, but do not include very rare or unusual cases. And check the order

the most likely senses must appear first.

Base Form

The Base Form must be the same as the lemma.

Inflection

Select AND TEST the inflectional paradigm that generates the inflections of the base form. Any errors here will be propagated to the dictionary, so be careful. If there is no inflection paradigm to generate the desired inflected forms.

Subcategorization

Subcategorization is only required when the word REQUIRES a complement or a specifier (indirect transitive verbs that select an specific preposition, for instance). In this case, you have to inform the corresponding subcategorization frame. If the subcategorization frame is not available, select