In a well-structured Lexica] Data B a s e , a number of relations among lexica] entries can he interactively evidenced. The present article examines hyponymy, as an example of paradigmatic relation, and "restriction" relation, as a syntagmatic relation. The theoretical results of their implementation are illustrated. For both relations, the paper presents the different procedures by which they are" automatically recognized and extracted from the natural language definitions, the degree of reliability of their automatic labeling, the use of these labels in interactive queries on the lexical data base, and finally the theoretical results of their implementation in a.
