Advances in Frame Semantics: Corpus and Computational Approaches and Insights
Theme Session to be held at ICLC 11, Berkeley, CA Date: July 28 - August 3, 2009 Organizer: Miriam R. L. Petruck Theme Session Description: Fillmore (1975) introduced the notion of a frame into linguistics over thirty years ago. As a cognitive structuring device used in the service of understanding, the semantic frame, parts of which are indexed by words (Fillmore 1985), is at the heart of Frame Semantics. While researchers have appealed to Frame Semantics to provide accounts for various lexical, syntactic, and semantic phenomena in a range of languages (e.g. Ostman 2000, Petruck 1995, Lambrecht 1984), its most highly developed instantiation is found in FrameNet (http://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu). An ongoing research project in computational lexicography, the FrameNet database provides for a substantial portion of the vocabulary of contemporary English, a body of semantically and syntactically annotated sentences from which reliable information can be reported on the valences or combinatorial possibilities of each lexical item. FrameNet has generated great interest in the Natural Language Processing community, resulting in new efforts for lexicon building and computational semantics. Advances in technology and the availability of large corpora have facilitated developing FrameNet lexical resources for languages other than English (with Spanish, Japanese, and German the most advanced, and Hebrew, Italian, Slovenian and Swedish at early stages). These projects (necessarily) also test FrameNet???s implicit claim about representing conceptual structure, rather than building an application driven structured organization of the lexicon of contemporary English. At the same time, FrameNet has inspired research on automatically induced semantic lexicons (Green and Dorr 2004, Pado and Lapata 2005) and automatic semantic role labeling (ASRL), or ?"semantic parsing" (Gildea and Jurafsky 2002, Thompson et al. 2003, Fleischman and Hovy 2003, Litkowski 2004, Baldewein et al. 2004). Frame Semantics has proven to be among the most useful techniques for deep semantic analysis of texts, thus contributing to research on information extraction (Mohit and Narayanan 2003), question answering (Narayanan and Harabagiu 2004, Narayanan and Sinha 2005), and automatic reasoning (Scheffczyk et al. 2006, Scheffczyk et al., 2007). In 1999 (at ICLC 6 in Stockholm), researchers began to address cognitive aspects of Frame Semantics explicitly in a public forum during a theme session on Construction Grammar, the sister theory of Frame Semantics. The goal of the 2009 theme session is to bring together researchers in cognitive, corpus and computational linguistics to (1) present their work using corpus approaches for the development of FrameNet-style lexical resources and FrameNet-derived representations for computational approaches to semantic processing and (2) share their insights about advances in Frame Semantics. We are particularly interested in work that attends to the cognitive linguistic dimension in Frame Semantics. Submission Procedure Abstracts must be: * a maximum of 500 words * submitted in .pdf format * received no later than the Sept 30, 2008 deadline * sent with the title of the paper, name(s) of author(s), affiliation and a contact e-mail address * sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT: Both the theme session proposal itself and the individual contributions will undergo independent reviewing by the ICLC program committee. ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=111637683-c8fa51 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
