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eXtended WordFrameNet

Summary

FrameNet is costly to build by hand and its lexicon is small. It has about 10,000 lexical units (LUs), while WordNet3.0 has over 200,000 word senses, and every new language needs the same manual effort again. The authors link FrameNet LUs to WordNet synsets automatically. They treat all LUs of one frame as a shared context and run a knowledge-based WSD algorithm, SSI-Dijkstra+. It finds shortest paths in a large graph built from WordNet 1.6 relations and eXtended WordNet gloss relations. The original SSI-Dijkstra fails on frames that have no monosemous LUs, so the new variant begins with a best guess for the least ambiguous word. On a gold standard of 372 LUs, SSI-Dijkstra+ beats both the most-frequent-sense baseline and the earlier algorithm. The resulting mappings let the authors:

  • add WordNet synonyms to frames, roughly doubling the number of LUs;
  • build frame lexicons for other languages from aligned wordnets in the MCR;
  • attach SUMO and WordNet Domains labels to LUs.

The approach offers a cheap route to wider frame-semantic coverage, including for languages with little or no FrameNet.

Key points

  • Knowledge graph: 99,635 synset nodes and 636,077 edges from WordNet 1.6 and eXtended WordNet. Version 1.7 relations were mapped to 1.6 with the automatic WordNet Mappings.
  • Frames without anchors: about 26% of frames (190) contain only polysemous LUs. The original SSI-Dijkstra cannot resolve these cases, which is what SSI-Dijkstra+ fixes.
  • Gold standard (Tonelli and Pianta, 2009; 372 LUs, one per frame): SSI-Dijkstra+ reaches F1 0.75 overall (P 0.76, R 0.74). Both wn-mfs and the original SSI-Dijkstra score 0.69.
  • Verbal mapping of Shi and Mihalcea (2005): SSI-Dijkstra+ scores F1 0.79, compared with 0.76 for SSI-Dijkstra and 0.67 for wn-mfs.
  • Resource size: eXtended WordFrameNet has about 20,600 English LUs. The text gives 20,587 and Table 3 gives 20,857, compared with 9,328 originally.
  • Other languages: local WordFrameNets were built for Spanish (14,106 LUs), Italian (12,478), Basque (10,980) and Catalan (13,128). For comparison, Spanish FrameNet has 1,047 LUs.

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Fields: Linguistics & languages

Topics: Word sense disambiguation · Semantic role labeling

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@inproceedings{laparra2010extended,
  title = {{eXtended WordFrameNet}},
  author = {Laparra, Egoitz and Rigau, German},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)},
  year = {2010},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/L10-1550/}
}

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