FLELex: a graded lexical resource for French foreign learners

Thomas François (1) , Núria Gala (2) , Patrick Watrin (1) , Cédrick Fairon (1)

1 Cental - Centre de traitement automatique du langage
2 LIF - Laboratoire d'informatique Fondamentale de Marseille - UMR 6166

In this paper we present FLELex, the first graded lexicon for French as a foreign language (FFL) that reports word frequencies by difficulty level (according to the CEFR scale). It has been obtained from a tagged corpus of 777,000 words from available textbooks and simplified readers intended for FFL learners. Our goal is to freely provide this resource to the community to be used for a variety of purposes going from the assessment of the lexical difficulty of a text, to the selection of simpler words within text simplification systems, and also as a dictionary in assistive tools for writing.

Keywords: graded lexicon; CALL; FFL vocabulary learning

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Linguistics; Humanities and Social Sciences; Education; Computer Science [cs]; Computation and Language [cs.CL]

Thomas François, Núria Gala, Patrick Watrin, Cédrick Fairon. FLELex: a graded lexical resource for French foreign learners. International conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014), May 2014, Reykjavik, France. ⟨hal-01758123⟩