Combining Conceptual and Referential Annotation to Study Variation in Framing

Marten Postma, Levi Remijnse, Filip Ilievski, Antske Fokkens, Sam Titarsolej, Piek Vossen


Abstract
We introduce an annotation tool whose purpose is to gain insights into variation of framing by combining FrameNet annotation with referential annotation. English FrameNet enables researchers to study variation in framing at the conceptual level as well through its packaging in language. We enrich FrameNet annotations in two ways. First, we introduce the referential aspect. Secondly, we annotate on complete texts to encode connections between mentions. As a result, we can analyze the variation of framing for one particular event across multiple mentions and (cross-lingual) documents. We can examine how an event is framed over time and how core frame elements are expressed throughout a complete text. The data model starts with a representation of an event type. Each event type has many incidents linked to it, and each incident has several reference texts describing it as well as structured data about the incident. The user can apply two types of annotations: 1) mappings from expressions to frames and frame elements, 2) reference relations from mentions to events and participants of the structured data.
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2020.framenet-1.5
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Proceedings of the International FrameNet Workshop 2020: Towards a Global, Multilingual FrameNet
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May
Year:
2020
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Marseille, France
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Tiago T. Torrent, Collin F. Baker, Oliver Czulo, Kyoko Ohara, Miriam R. L. Petruck
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Framenet
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European Language Resources Association
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31–40
Language:
English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.framenet-1.5
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Marten Postma, Levi Remijnse, Filip Ilievski, Antske Fokkens, Sam Titarsolej, and Piek Vossen. 2020. Combining Conceptual and Referential Annotation to Study Variation in Framing. In Proceedings of the International FrameNet Workshop 2020: Towards a Global, Multilingual FrameNet, pages 31–40, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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