pylexique 1.5.0

Pylexique is a Python wrapper around Lexique383

Pylexique is a Python wrapper around Lexique383.

It allows the extraction of lexical information from more than 140 000 French words in an Object Oriented way.

Pylexique est une librairie Python encapsulant Lexique383.

Cette librairie permet d’extraire l’information lexicale de plus de 140 000 mots Français de manière Orientée Objet.

• Free software: MIT license

• PyLexique Documentation: https://pylexique.readthedocs.io

Each lexical item is represented as a LexItem having the following LexEntryType:

Chaque entrée lexicale est représentée par un LexItem de type LexEntryType:

class LexEntryType:
"""
Type information about all the lexical attributes in a LexItem object.

"""
ortho: str
phon: str
lemme: str
cgram: str
genre: str
nombre: str
freqlemfilms2: float
freqlemlivres: float
freqfilms2: float
freqlivres: float
infover: str
nbhomogr: int
nbhomoph: int
islem: bool
nblettres: int
nbphons: int
cvcv: str
p_cvcv: str
voisorth: int
voisphon: int
puorth: int
puphon: int
syll: str
nbsyll: int
cv_cv: str
orthrenv: str
phonrenv: str
orthosyll: str
cgramortho: str
deflem: float
defobs: int
old20: float
pld20: float
morphoder: str
nbmorph: int

The meanings of the attributes of this object are as follow:

• ortho: the word

• phon: the phonological forms of the word

• lemme: the lemmas of this word

• cgram: the grammatical categories of this word

• genre: the gender

• nombre: the number

• freqlemfilms: the frequency of the lemma according to the corpus of subtitles (per million occurrences)

• freqlemlivres: the frequency of the lemma according to the body of books (per million occurrences)

• freqfilms: the frequency of the word according to the corpus of subtitles (per million occurrences)

• freqlivres: the frequency of the word according to the body of books (per million occurrences)

• infover: modes, tenses, and possible people for verbs

• nbhomogr: number of homographs

• nbhomoph: number of homophones

• islem: indicates if it is a lemma or not

• nblettres: the number of letters

• nbphons: number of phonemes

• cvcv: the orthographic structure

• p-cvcv: the phonological structure

• voisorth: number of orthographic neighbors

• voisphon: number of phonological neighbors

• puorth: point of spelling uniqueness

• puphon: point of phonological uniqueness

• syll: syllable phonological form

• nbsyll: number of syllables

• cv-cv: syllable phonological structure

• orthrenv: reverse orthographic form

• phonrenv: reversed phonological form

• orthosyll: syllable orthographic form

• cgramortho: the different grammatical category for a given orthographic representation

• deflem: the percentage of people who said they knew the lemma of the word

• defobs: the size of the sample from which ‘deflem’ is derived

• old20: orthographic Levenshtein Distance

• pld20: phonological Levenshtein Distance

• morphoder: inflectional morphology

• nbmorph: the number of morphemes directly computed from ‘morphoder’

You can find all the relevant information in the official documentation of Lexique383 (French).

Features

• Extract all lexical information from a French word such as:

  • orthographic and phonemics representations

  • associated lemmas

  • syllabation

  • grammatical category

  • gender and number

  • frequencies in a corpus of books and in a body of film subtitles, etc…

• Extract all the lexical forms of a French word.

• Easy to use Api.

• Easily integrate pylexique in your own projects as an imported library.

• Can be used as a command line tool.

Credits

Main developer SekouDiaoNlp.

Lexical corpus: Lexique383

About Lexique383

Lexique3

Lexique 3.83 is a French lexical database that provides for ~ 140,000 words of French: orthographic and phonemics representations, associated lemmas, syllabation, grammatical category, gender and number, frequencies in a corpus of books and in a body of film subtitles, etc…

Lexique 3.83 est une base de données lexicales du français qui fournit pour ~140000 mots du français: les représentations orthographiques et phonémiques, les lemmes associés, la syllabation, la catégorie grammaticale, le genre et le nombre, les fréquences dans un corpus de livres et dans un corpus de sous-titres de films, etc…

Table: Lexique383.zip

Web site: http://www.lexique.org

Online: http://www.lexique.org/shiny/lexique

Publications

• New, Boris, Christophe Pallier, Marc Brysbaert, and Ludovic Ferrand. 2004. “Lexique 2: A New French Lexical Database.” Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 36 (3): 516–524. DOI. pdf

• New, Boris, Christophe Pallier, Ludovic Ferrand, and Rafael Matos. 2001. “Une Base de Données Lexicales Du Français Contemporain Sur Internet: LEXIQUE” L’Année Psychologique 101 (3): 447–462. DOI. pdf

• Boris New, Marc Brysbaert, Jean Veronis, and Christophe Pallier. 2007. “The Use of Film Subtitles to Estimate Word Frequencies.” Applied Psycholinguistics 28 (4): 661–77. DOI. (pdf)

Contributors

• Boris New & Christophe Pallier

• Ronald Peereman

• Sophie Dufour

• Christian Lachaud

• and many others… (contact us to be listed)

License

CC BY SA40.0

BibTex Entry to cite publications about Lexique383:

@article{npbf04,
author = {New, B. and Pallier, C. and Brysbaert, M. and Ferrand, L.},
journal = {ehavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers},
number = {3},
pages = {516-524},
title = {Lexique 2 : A New French Lexical Database},
volume = {36},
year = {2004},
eprint = {http://www.lexique.org/?page_id=294},
}

@article{npfm01,
author = {New, B. and Pallier, C. and Ferrand, L. and Matos, R.},
journal = {L'Ann{\'e}e Pschologique},
number = {447-462},
pages = {1396-2},
title = {Une base de donn{\'e}es lexicales du fran\c{c}ais contemporain sur internet: LEXIQUE},
volume = {101},
year = {2001},
}

@article{new_brysbaert_veronis_pallier_2007,
author={NEW, BORIS and BRYSBAERT, MARC and VERONIS, JEAN and PALLIER, CHRISTOPHE},
title={The use of film subtitles to estimate word frequencies},
volume={28}, DOI={10.1017/S014271640707035X},
number={4}, journal={Applied Psycholinguistics},
publisher={Cambridge University Press},
year={2007},
pages={661–677}}

BibTeX

If you want to cite pylexique in an academic publication use this citation format:

@article{pylexique,
  title={pylexique},
  author={Sekou Diao},
  journal={GitHub. Note: https://github.com/SekouDiaoNlp/pylexique Cited by},
  year={2021}
}