FrameNet, current collaborations and future goals
This paper will focus on recent and near-term future developments at FrameNet (FN) and the interoperability issues they raise. We begin by discussing the current state of the Berkeley FN database including major changes in the data format for the latest data release. We then briefly review two recent local projects, "Rapid Vanguarding, which has created a new interface for the frame and lexical unit definition process based on the Word Sketch Engine of Kilgarriff etal. (2004), and Beyond the Core, which has developed tools for annotating constructions, and created a sample construction of especially interesting constructions which are neither simply lexical nor easy for the standard parsers to parse. We also cover two current collaborations, FNs part in the development of the manually annotated subcorpus of the American National Corpus, and a pilot study on aligning WordNet and FrameNet, to exploit the complementary strengths of these quite different resources. We discuss FN-related research on Spanish, Japanese, German (SALSA), Chinese and other languages, and the language-independence of frames, along with interesting FN-related work by others, and a sketch of a large group of image-schematic frames which are now being added to FN. We close with some ideas about how FrameNet can be opened up, to allow broader participation in the development process without losing precision and coherence, including a small-scale study on acquiring data for FN using Amazons Mechanical Turk crowd-sourcing system.
framenet corpus wordnet frame semantics lexical semantics interoperability lexicon semantic role thematic role lexical resource crowdsourcing