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Through this contribution we would like to propose an analysis of the variation, mainly diatopic, applied to fixed sequences, through a resource we have developed for Automatic Language Processing. The large number of variants that appear in corpora has led us to carry out an exhaustive analysis of these constructions in order to allow native and non-native users, and NLP applications, to use these fixed sequences correctly. The textual data are varied, from qualite potentially degraded and voluminous. Finally, the other difficulty that NLP must face to access the meaning of texts are the intrinsic characteristics of natural languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a work on extending the adverbial entries of the WOLF, a semantic lexical resource for French, and connecting them with those of the syntactic lexicon Lefff, which were mostly extracted from the lexicon-grammar tables from (Molinier & Levrier, 2000). This work relies on the exploitation of the derivation and the synonyms relations ; the latter are extracted from the DicoSyn synonyms database. The resulting semantic resource, which is freely available, is manually evaluated and validated in an exhaustive manner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to describe the two uses of the French adverb d’une certaine manière (CM), one where it is modifies the VP, and one where it expresses modality. On the basis of the French data base Frantext, we detail, firstly, under which syntactic and semantic circumstances CM appears. In a second stage, it is shown that CM can be considered as a kind of hedge, which concerns a constituent or the whole statement, presented as a value judgment of the speaker, whose bases remain deliberately “vague”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]