A Supervised Approach for Enriching the Relational Structure of Frame Semantics in FrameNet

Shafqat Mumtaz Virk, Philippe Muller, Juliette Conrath


Abstract
Frame semantics is a theory of linguistic meanings, and is considered to be a useful framework for shallow semantic analysis of natural language. FrameNet, which is based on frame semantics, is a popular lexical semantic resource. In addition to providing a set of core semantic frames and their frame elements, FrameNet also provides relations between those frames (hence providing a network of frames i.e. FrameNet). We address here the limited coverage of the network of conceptual relations between frames in FrameNet, which has previously been pointed out by others. We present a supervised model using rich features from three different sources: structural features from the existing FrameNet network, information from the WordNet relations between synsets projected into semantic frames, and corpus-collected lexical associations. We show large improvements over baselines consisting of each of the three groups of features in isolation. We then use this model to select frame pairs as candidate relations, and perform evaluation on a sample with good precision.
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C16-1334
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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3542–3552
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Shafqat Mumtaz Virk, Philippe Muller, and Juliette Conrath. 2016. A Supervised Approach for Enriching the Relational Structure of Frame Semantics in FrameNet. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 3542–3552, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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A Supervised Approach for Enriching the Relational Structure of Frame Semantics in FrameNet (Virk et al., COLING 2016)
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