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Welcome to FrameNet
The Berkeley FrameNet project is creating an on-line lexical resource
for English, based on frame semantics and supported by
corpus evidence. The aim is to document the range of semantic and
syntactic combinatory possibilities (valences) of each word in each of
its senses, through computer-assisted annotation of example sentences
and automatic tabulation and display of the annotation results. The
major product of this work, the FrameNet lexical database, currently
contains more than 10,000 lexical units (defined below), more than
6,100 of which are fully annotated, in more than 825 semantic frames,
exemplified in more than 135,000 annotated sentences. It has gone
through three releases, and is now in use by hundreds of researchers,
teachers, and students around the world (see FrameNet
Users). Active research projects are now seeking to produce
comparable frame-semantic lexicons for other languages and to devise
means of automatically labeling running text with semantic frame
information.
We are excited to announce the SFN First Release! Spanish FrameNet is now open and available to the public, with 305 frames and 575 fully annotated LUs adding up to over 10,000 annotated sentences.
You may see the data by visiting http://gemini.uab.es/SFN. Click on "SFN Data" to browse the data, check out the new web reports--including frame definitions, word senses (lexical units) with annotation, and valence reports--as well as play with the Frame Grapher and FrameSQL.
Last Updated ( Jun 19, 2008 at 06:32 PM )
Soccer FrameNet: kicktionary.de
Redesigned and Public Access!
FrameNet visitor Thomas Schmidt from Germany created and launched
the Kicktionary, a domain-specific trilingual (English,
German, and French) lexical resource of the language of soccer. Kictionary is based on Frame Semantics and uses WordNet style semantic relations as an additional layer of structure. The lexicon currently contains around 2,000 lexical units organized in 104 frames and 16 scenarios. Each LU is illustrated by a number of examples from a multilingual corpus of soccer match reports.
Check it out for the latest additions and updates (password or permission no longer required!).
For further information contact
Last Updated ( Jun 13, 2008 at 05:52 PM )
The "Book" v1.3 Available for Download
Our main project document, "FrameNet II: Extended Theory and Practice" gives a basic introduction to frame semantics and offers guidelines for frame sematic annotation, discussing in detail the inventories of grammatical functions and phrase types that we use. The document includes a discussion of the frame development process and a consolidated list of frame-general, extra-thematic frame elements. Our latest version contains some general updates plus a new section on frame relations
In addition to our ongoing lexicographic work, FrameNet also annotates continuous texts as a demonstration of how frame semantics can contribute to text understanding. This style of annotation typically involves marking frame elements of frames evoked by multiple predicators in each sentence or even in each clause. Follow this link to FrameNet continuous text annotation.
Last Updated ( Aug 01, 2006 at 12:14 PM )
FrameGrapher
FrameNet has developed a visualization tool for viewing the relations between frames. This tool allows the user to select a starting frame and explore the connections between frames and their frame elements. Follow this link to preview our Frame Grapher Tool!
