Putting frames in perspective

Abstract

This paper attempts to bridge the gap between FrameNet frames and inference. We describe a computational formalism that captures structural relationships among participants in a dynamic scenario. This representation is used to describe the internal structure of FrameNet frames in terms of parameters for event simulations. We apply our formalism to the commerce domain and show how it provides a flexible means of accounting for linguistic perspective and other inferential effects.

Bridging Text and Knowledge with Frames

“…An example can be found in the perspective difference provided by the lexical items sell, buy, or pay, which all evoke the commercial transaction frame. (Chang, Narayanan, & Petruck, 2002), built a computational formalism that captured structural frame relationships among participants in a dynamic scenario. This representation was used to describe the internal structure and relationships between FrameNet frames in terms of parameters for active event simulations for inference.…”

A Structured Context Model for Grammar Learning

“…The overall understanding-learning loop is detailed in [30,31] and summarized in Figure 9. Essentially, the model invokes the analysis and resolution processes described earlier to produce a partial analysis, rather than the usual full semspec suitable for simulation.…”

Representing Caused Motion in Embodied Construction Grammar

“…Chang et al (2002) constitutes the first effort to represent the prose description of the information that FN has defined in semantic frames in formal terms. The work provided an ECG representation of FN's (then) Commerce frame, showing the perspicuity of doing so to account for linguistic perspective, and ultimately useful in translating FN information into a representation needed for event simulation (Narayanan 1997).…”

“…The work provided an ECG representation of FN's (then) Commerce frame, showing the perspicuity of doing so to account for linguistic perspective, and ultimately useful in translating FN information into a representation needed for event simulation (Narayanan 1997). Building on Chang et al (2002), this paper focuses on the analysis and representation of the meanings of sentences describing different kinds of motion events, using a set of related semantic frames. Before detailing the examples that illustrate the analysis and representation, we offer a very brief overview of FN and ECG.…”

“…This paper is organized as follows: Section 2 includes background information on FrameNet (FN) and ECG; Section 3 describes the FN treatment of Caused_motion, and the ECG representation of the CauseMotion schema, which constitutes the meaning block of the Cause_motion construction; Section 4 summarizes the ECG analysis of motion and caused motion example sentences; and Section 5 discusses new directions for future work with ECG representations of information structured in FrameNet frames (http://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu). Chang et al (2002) constitutes the first effort to represent the prose description of the information that FN has defined in semantic frames in formal terms. The work provided an ECG representation of FN's (then) Commerce frame, showing the perspicuity of doing so to account for linguistic perspective, and ultimately useful in translating FN information into a representation needed for event simulation (Narayanan 1997).…”