Sémantique lexicale et corpus : l’étude du lexique transdisciplinaire des écrits scientifiques

This paper deals with a corpus-based linguistic study in lexical semantics. Our topic is the general scientific lexicon, the cross-disciplinary lexicon peculiar to the academic genre. We show how the use of a large corpus enables to develop an inventory of this vocabulary and present the first semantic treatments performed with the help of the corpus, with a first experiment in natural language processing..