Discovering frames in specialized domains

Marie-Claude L’Homme, Benoît Robichaud, Carlos Subirats Rüggeberg


Abstract
This paper proposes a method for discovering semantic frames (Fillmore, 1982, 1985; Fillmore et al., 2003) in specialized domains. It is assumed that frames are especially relevant for capturing the lexical structure in specialized domains and that they complement structures such as ontologies that appear better suited to represent specific relationships between entities. The method we devised is based on existing lexical entries recorded in a specialized database related to the field of the environment (erode, impact, melt, recycling, warming). The frames and the data encoded in FrameNet are used as a reference. Selected information was extracted automatically from the database on the environment (and, when possible, compared to FrameNet), and presented to a linguist who analyzed this information to discover potential frames. Several different frames were discovered with this method. About half of them correspond to frames already described in FrameNet; some new frames were also defined and part of these might be specific to the field of the environment.
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L14-1386
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
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2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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1364–1371
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/455_Paper.pdf
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Marie-Claude L’Homme, Benoît Robichaud, and Carlos Subirats Rüggeberg. 2014. Discovering frames in specialized domains. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 1364–1371, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Discovering frames in specialized domains (L’Homme et al., LREC 2014)
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