A French Phonetic Lexicon with Variants for Speech and Language Processing

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000)

Abstract

This paper reports on a project aiming at the semi-automatic development of a large orthographic-phonetic lexicon for French, based on the Multext dictionary. It details the various stages of the project, with an emphasis on the methodological and design aspects. Information regarding the lexicon’s content is also given, together with a description of interface tools which should facilitate its exploitation.