The Berkeley FrameNet Project has been renewed for three years and will continue the work of building the FrameNet lexicon and participating in applications that allow its evaluation.
Here's a brief summary of the two phases of the project.
FrameNet I"Tools for Lexicon Building" |
FrameNet II"FrameNet++: An On-Line Lexical Semantic Resource and its Application to Speech and Language Technology" |
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NSF ITR/HCI #0086132, September 2000 - August 2003 PI:
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We wish to acknowledge the support of Oxford University Press, which, through Timothy Benbow, made it possible for us to use the British National Corpus as the evidential basis for our inquiry into the behavior of English words, and also, through Robert Scriven, gave us permission to select definitions from the Concise English Dictionary to serve as as parts of the FrameNet I lexical entries.
We are also indebted to the Institut fuer Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung of the University of Stuttgart, through the kindness of Ulrich Heid and Oliver Christ, for the IMS Corpus Workbench software, which made it easy for us to extract, explore, and sort example lines and sentences from the BNC.
The Project is administered at the International Computer Science Institute: we are indebted to Jerome Feldman, Director of the Institute during most of the FrameNet I period - and a year and a half before our initial funding - and to Nelson Morgan, current ICSI Director, for their efforts in making available to us the services and facilities of this remarkably welcoming and well-run research community.