Frames

A language comprehension program using "frames", "scripts", etc. must be able to decide which frames are appropriate to the text. Often there will be explicit indication ("Fred was playing tennis" …...

: Semantic processing is one of the important tasks for natural language processing. Basic to semantic processing is descriptions of lexical items. The most frequently used form of description of …...

The paper presents Treelex, a valence lexicon of French adjectives automatically extracted from a treebank. The corpus contains morphological and syntactic annotations but no subcategorisa- tion information is present for …...

AbstractWe investigate which distributional properties should be present in a tagset by examining different mappings of various current part-of-speech tagsets, looking at English, German, and Italian corpora. Given the importance …...

AbstractUnderstanding stories – sequences of events – is a crucial yet challenging natural language understanding task. These events typically carry multiple aspects of semantics including actions, entities and emotions. Not …...

AbstractIn this paper, we introduce an extension of the Berkeley FrameNet for the structured and semantic modeling of factual claims. Modeling is a robust tool that can be leveraged in …...