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International FrameNet Workshop 2013

http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/Forskning/SweFN/FrameNetWS2013

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The FrameNet Workshop will bring together researchers working on
FrameNet-style lexical resources and constructicons in different
languages or specialized vocabularies as well as those developing
applications that use FrameNet data.

The FrameNet project (http:/framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu) is
building a human- and machine-readable knowledge base for English
and annotating example sentences that show how words are used in
actual texts. FrameNet contains over 12,000 word senses and
nearly 200,000 manually annotations of sentences, providing a
unique training dataset for a variety of natural language
processing tasks, including automatic semantic role labeling,
information extraction, machine translation, event recognition,
and sentiment analysis. FrameNet also serves as a valence
dictionary, providing detailed information on the
syntactic-semantic combinatorial properties of a substantial
portion of the core vocabulary of English.

FrameNet is based on the principles of Frame Semantics (Fillmore
1976, 1977, 1982, 1985), a theory about meaning in language that
defines word meaning in terms of the semantic frame - an
experience-based schematization of the speaker's world that
represents an event, relation, or entity that also facilitates
inferencing. FrameNet was founded in 1997, and is hosted at the
International Computer Science Institute, and has been supported
primarily by the US National Science Foundation. FrameNet data
has been downloaded and used by thousands of researchers around
the world for a wide variety of purposes.

FrameNet projects following the Berkeley model have been in
progress in many languages for a number of years, including
Japanese, Chinese, German, Swedish, Spanish, and Brazilian
Portuguese, with others (e.g. French) just beginning their work.
Some of these projects have begun developing FrameNet extensions,
such as a language-specific constructicon, comparable to the
FrameNet constructicon (Fillmore, Lee-Goldman and Rhodes 2012),
which is based on the principles of Construction Grammar and
combines lexicography and language technology.

WORKSHOP GOALS:

 Exchange information about current research and applications of
FrameNet projects in different languages

 Advance the field by stimulating dialogue among the developers
of FrameNets and extensions

 Define new directions for research and development of FrameNets
and their extensions

TOPICS INCLUDE:

 Design decisions in the construction of FrameNet-like knowledge
bases

 Cross-linguistic connections and multilingual FrameNets

 FrameNets for specific domains in relation to Berkeley FrameNet
and other lexica

 Extensions of FrameNet, e.g. language-specific constructicons

 Applications using FrameNet data

 Planning the future of FrameNet

VENUE

Hotel Shattuck Plaza, 2086 Allston Way, Berkeley, California,
94704 (5 minutes' walk from ICSI). For more information, visit
http://www.hotelshattuckplaza.com.

ACCOMODATION

Please contact the hotel directly for reservations as early as
possible, as there are several other events near this date in
Berkeley.

PARTICIPATION AND SUBMISSION INFORMATION

We expect everyone to contribute to the workshop through active
participation. We invite participants to submit an abstract of up
to 500 words for peer review and prepare an oral presentation.
Workshop participants will be invited to submit a full paper for
publication after the workshop for possible inclusion in the
workshop proceedings.

Please be aware that the number of participants is limited.

IMPORTANT DATES

 21st March (Pacific time): abstract submission to EasyChair

 28th March: notification of acceptance

 19th April: Workshop

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

 Lars Borin (University of Gothenburg; Organizing chair)

 Karin Friberg Heppin (University of Gothenburg)

 Gerard de Melo (ICSI)

 Miriam R.L. Petruck (ICSI)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 Colin Baker (ICSI)

 Hans Boas (University of Texas at Austin)

 Lars Borin (University of Gothenburg)

 Dana Dannélls(Chalmers University of Technology)

 Gerard de Melo (ICSI)

 Markus Forsberg (University of Gothenburg)

 Karin Friberg Heppin (University of Gothenburg)

 Richard Johansson (University of Gothenburg)

 Dimitrios Kokkinakis (University of Gothenburg)

 Benjamin Lyngfelt (University of Gothenburg)

 Miriam R.L. Petruck (ICSI)

 Tiago Timponi Torrent (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora)

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