Archive for August, 2009

Frame element hierarchy

O’Hara and Wiebe (2009) provide an inventory of semantic relations derived from the frame elements of FrameNet, along with a mapping identifying what was done for semantic roles occurring at least 50 times. They also discuss a number of other schemes for identifying a set of basic semantic relations or roles. Marquez et al. (2008) […]

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Electronic dictionaries of the future

Current electronic dictionaries are presently little more than transcriptions of paper dictionaries. To be sure, they have a lot more information than is present in the print versions. But, they are not really designed to support natural language processing. The major needs of the future are: (1) a set of instances illustrating each sense of […]

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Preposition construction patterns

A construction pattern attempts to characterize the usage of each sense in such a way that it can be used to disambiguate among the several senses of a word. Constructions are becoming more widely used, as described in Atkins & Rundell, The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography. The authors describe patterns for verbs, nouns, adjectives, […]

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