The structure of the lexical component in a lexico-conceptual knowledge base

in the last years a language model, the Lexical Constructional model (mairal & Ruiz de mendoza, 2008(mairal & Ruiz de mendoza, , 2009;; Ruiz de mendoza & mairal, 2008) has been developed to account for all facets of meaning, including pragmatic and discourse phenomena.Recent research in the LCm (Periñán & Arcas, 2004, 2005, 2007a, 2010a, 2010b) has built an online lexico-conceptual base, FunGramKB, for natural language processing (nLP) applications.FunGramKB consists of two levels of information (i.e. a lexical level and a conceptual level) which in turn comprise several modules.The present contribution focuses on the lexicon, one of the two modules in the lexical level.The aim of the paper is twofold: first, to analyse the FunGramKB lexical component; second, to illustrate the semantic representation in the lexicon of the concepts stored in the ontology through a contrastive analysis of the French and english lexical entries for speech act predicates.