A French Corpus Annotated for Multiword Expressions with Adverbial Function

2026-06-03

AI Summary

This study addresses a critical gap in natural language processing research: the scarcity of corpora specifically annotated for adverbial multiword expressions (MWEs). Focusing on French, the work provides the first systematic typology of MWEs that function adverbially and constructs a high-quality annotated corpus by integrating linguistic rules with manual validation, leveraging existing language resources. The resulting dataset, released under the LGPLLR license, constitutes the first publicly available resource dedicated to adverbial MWEs in French. By filling this longstanding void, the corpus offers foundational, reusable data to support downstream tasks such as information retrieval, information extraction, and syntactic parsing.

Abstract

This paper presents a French corpus annotated for multiword expressions (MWEs) with adverbial function. This corpus is designed for investigation on information retrieval and extraction, as well as on deep and shallow syntactic parsing. We delimit which kind of MWEs we annotated, we describe the resources and methods we used for the annotation, and we briefly comment the results. The annotated corpus is available at http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/ under the LGPLLR license.

Problem

• multiword expressions
• adverbial function
• French corpus
• information retrieval
• syntactic parsing

Innovation

• multiword expressions
• adverbial function
• French corpus
• syntactic parsing
• annotation methodology