Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

81represent synonymy, antonymy, nominalization, and other kinds of semantic relations.Syntagmatic LFs correspond to very general and abstract meanings that can beexpressed in different ways. For instance, Magn is a syntagmatic LF that expresses ahigh degree of what is designated by the LU (Magn means ―very‖, ―very much‖ or―completely‖). The expression rely heavily in to rely heavily on somebody could be thenrepresented by the syntagmatic LF Magn(rely)=heavily (Mel‘čuk 2001).L‘Homme (2008) applies these principles and methods to the elaboration of adictionary of computing and the Internet called DiCoInfo (Dictionnaire fondamental del‟informatique et de l‟Internet) which is a freely available online dictionary currentlywith three language versions: French, English and Spanish. This dictionary is originalbecause it describes the linguistic behaviour of terms belonging to different parts ofspeech such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Terms are, thus, viewed as LUsand the lexical structure of a given subject field is described by taking into account theparadigmatic and syntagmatic relations among the terms included in the lexicalresource. Paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations are described by means of ECL‘slexical functions. All the information concerning the terms is gathered from corpusevidence and encoded in an xml editor. Consider the entry of the term install 2 (Figure11) in the sense that a user installs software as opposed to hardware (install 1 ).Figure 11 shows that the entry is divided into four sections: actantial structure,linguistic realizations of actants, contexts and lexical relations. The first sectionaccounts for the obligatory participants (or actants) in the sense of the verb that is beingdescribed. Here, the term install 2 has three actants: a user | installs | software | on acomputer. Terms which typically represent those actants are presented in squigglybrackets.