Abstract

FrameNet is a three-year NSF-supported project in corpus-based computational lexicography, now in its second year #NSF IRI-9618838, #Tools for Lexicon Building"#. The project's key features are #a# a commitment to corpus evidence for semantic and syntactic generalizations, and #b# the representation of the valences of its target words #mostly nouns, adjectives, and verbs# in which the semantic portion makes use of frame semantics. The resulting database will contain #a# descriptions of the semantic frames underlying the meanings of the words described, and #b# the valence representation #semantic and syntactic# of several thousand words and phrases, each accompanied by #c# a representative collection of annotated corpus attestations, which jointly exemplify the observed linkings between #frame elements" and their syntactic realizations #e.g. grammatical function, phrase type, and other syntactic traits#. This report will present the project's goals and workflow, and information about the computational tools that have been adapted or created in-house for this work.

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