Combining Formal Concept Analysis and Translation to Assign Frames and Thematic Role Sets to French Verbs

Overview & Synopsis

We present an application of Formal Concept Analysis in the domain of Natural Language Processing: We give a general overview of the framework, describe its goals, the data it is based on, the way it works and we illustrate the kind of data we expect as a result. More specifically, we examine the ability of the stability, separation and probability indices to select the most relevant concepts with respect to our FCA application. We show that the sum of stability and separation gives results close to those obtained when using the entire lattice.