Deductive reasoning with natural language requires combining lexical resources with the world knowledge provided by ontologies. Jan's work aligns FrameNet Semantic Types (ST) with SUMO classes, which are expressed in SUO-KIF, the language of SUMO. Based on this general-domain alignment, Jan has developed a semi-automatic, domain-specific approach for linking FrameNet Frame Elements (FE) to SUMO classes, which is based on typical fillers of FEs in a particular domain. This provides restricted, ontology-based types on the fillers of FEs. This basic work can improve semantic parsing and ontology lexicalization. See the ontology at work here (also available in .doc).

In Saarbrucken, the SALSA project is annotating a German corpus with frame semantic roles, and utilizing it in the construction of a large semantic lexicon. The lexicon and corpus will serve as a resource for linguistic and computational linguistic research. SALSA further investigates probabilistic and hybrid methods for wide-coverage semantic annotation, and explores the use of frame semantic annotations for dynamic semantic analysis in practical NLP applications, such as information access.

The first public release of the SALSA corpus is now available. The release contains a set of preliminary German frames ("proto-frames"), constructed for the annotation of readings that have not been covered by current FrameNet release.

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.

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