Improvement of VerbNet-like resources by frame typing

Abstract

Verbenet is a French lexicon developed by ``translation'' of its English counterpart --- VerbNet (Kipper-Schuler, 2005)---and treatment of the specificities of French syntax (Pradet et al., 2014; Danlos et al., 2016). One difficulty encountered in its development springs from the fact that the list of (potentially numerous) frames has no internal organization. This paper proposes a type system for frames that shows whether two frames are variants of a given alternation. Frame typing facilitates coherence checking of the resource in a ``virtuous circle''. We present the principles underlying a program we developed and used to automatically type frames in VerbeNet. We also show that our system is portable to other languages.

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