Frame Net

Description

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 manual annotation of example sentences and automatic capture and organization of the annotation results. The FrameNet database is in a platform-independent format, and can be displayed and queried via the web and other interfaces.

Contact

• Url: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/framenet/
• Email: collinb@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU
• Project Director: Charles J. Fillmore
• Members: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/framenet/People.html

Data

• freely available for research and education
• registration needed (contact me to get the account information),
• data downloaded at /data/corpus/framenet and browsable as html
  • FrameIndex
  • LexicalUnitsIndex
• VerbIndex: combining information from the VerbNet, PropBank, and FrameNet projects.

Docu

• FrameNet: Theory and Praxis, Christopher R. Johnson, Miriam R. L. Petruck, Collin F. Baker, Michael Ellsworth, Josef Ruppenhofer, Charles J. Fillmore (pdf, html)

see also: PropBank, VerbNet