This lexicon contains verb:noun pairs such that:

1. the noun is morphologically related to the verb;
2. the noun can be used to denote the action or activity denoted by the verb.

Verbaction is created semi-automatically. We first used the method detailed in (Hathout, Namer & Dal 2002) to form candidate verb:noun couples from the verbs and the nouns of the TLFnome and TLFindex lexica. We complemented these couples by harvasting -ade, -age, -ance, -ence, -ment, -tion and -ure deverbal nouns from the Web with the Webbaffix tool box (Tanguy & Hathout, 2002). Then, we manually checked all the couples.

The morphosyntactic tags used in the resource are in the Multext/GRACE format.

    <couple>
        <verb>
            <lemma>zapper</lemma>
            <tag>Vmn----</tag>
        </verb>
        <noun gender="masculine" number="singular">
            <lemma>zappage</lemma>
            <tag>Ncms</tag>
        </noun>
    </couple>
    <couple>
        <verb>
            <lemma>zapper</lemma>
            <tag>Vmn----</tag>
        </verb>
        <noun gender="masculine" number="singular">
            <lemma>zapping</lemma>
            <tag>Ncms</tag>
        </noun>
    </couple>

Nabil Hathout
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Some rights are reserved. Verbaction is available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0 FR Licence. Please read the TEI header hereafter.

• TEI header
• DTD
• Verbaction-1.0.zip (81 Ko containing the resource, Licence, DTD, TEI header and a README file)

1997-1999 INaLF / ATILF

Anne Berche:	Manual revision of the couples.
Nabil Hathout:	Couples formation.
Josette Lecomte:	Consulting, manual revision of difficult couples.
Fabienne Mougin:	Manual revision of the couples.

1999-2005 ERSS

Nabil Hathout:	Couples formation and harvesting.
Sylwia Ozdowska:	Manual revision of the couples.
Ludovic Tanguy:	Couple harvesting on the Web.

We thank Didier Bourigault (ERSS-CNRS) for the original idea of creating this lexicon, and Jean-Marie Pierrel (ATILF-CNRS) for his approval for the resource distribution.

We sincerely thank Jacques Dendien (ATILF-CNRS) for his support that made possible the creation this lexicon.

• Hathout, N., Namer, F. et Dal, G. (2002). An Experimental Constructional Database: The MorTAL Project. In Boucher, P. éditeur, Many Morphologies. Cascadilla, Somerville, Mass.
• Tanguy, L. et Hathout, N. (2002). Webaffix : un outil d'acquisition morphologique dérivationnelle à partir du Web. In Actes de la 9e Conférence Annuelle sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN-2002), Nancy. ATALA.

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