<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Our work is focused on the conceptual description of verbs by employing two main resources – the lexical semantic network WordNet and the conceptual frames from FrameNet. We implement a method for inheritance-based mapping between the two resources by transferring the frame assignments from a hypernym to its hyponyms. We discover that the method performs best for directly related pairs of synsets but deteriorates in assignment at two or more steps. The mapping is then used for enhancing each of the resources by expanding it with new entries and by contributing to the resources’ relational structure.</p></abstract>

Our work is focused on the conceptual description of verbs by employing two main resources – the lexical semantic network WordNet and the conceptual frames from FrameNet. We implement a method for inheritance-based mapping between the two resources by transferring the frame assignments from a hypernym to its hyponyms. We discover that the method performs best for directly related pairs of synsets but deteriorates in assignment at two or more steps. The mapping is then used for enhancing each of the resources by expanding it with new entries and by contributing to the resources’ relational structure.

Towards a Conceptual Description of Verbs

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

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Our work is focused on the conceptual description of verbs by employing two main resources – the lexical semantic network WordNet and the conceptual frames...

Towards a Conceptual Description of Verbs

Publicado en línea: 10 dic 2020

Páginas: 108 - 124

Recibido: 02 nov 2020

Aceptado: 09 nov 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2020-0050

Palabras clave
FrameNet, WordNet, Frame Semantics, semantic relations

© 2020 Svetlozara Leseva et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Towards a Conceptual Description of Verbs

Publicado en línea: 10 dic 2020

Páginas: 108 - 124

Recibido: 02 nov 2020

Aceptado: 09 nov 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2020-0050

Palabras claveFrameNet, WordNet, Frame Semantics, semantic relations

© 2020 Svetlozara Leseva et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Palabras clave
FrameNet, WordNet, Frame Semantics, semantic relations