SemLink+: FrameNet, VerbNet and Event Ontologies

What it is about

A short review of SemLink, the set of mappings between PropBank, VerbNet, FrameNet and OntoNotes sense groupings, and of the event ontology the authors are building on top of it. The running example is "He talked about politics", labelled Arg0 and Arg1 in PropBank, AGENT and TOPIC in VerbNet, and SPEAKER and TOPIC in FrameNet. The mappings are 1-to-many from PropBank to VerbNet or FrameNet, and mostly 1-to-1 between VerbNet and FrameNet. SemLink 1.2 maps to FrameNet 1.5 frames and frame elements, and to version 3.2 of the PropBank-VerbNet mapping. FrameNet has over 2,000 frame-element types. The paper proposes an event ontology from frame-to-frame relations (Inheritance, Subframe, Using, Causative_of, Precedes) and checks it on the conflict events attack and demonstration. The paper has no experiments and no scores.

Ideas

• I1. Keep a parallel role table for each verb sense in Mova: one row with the PropBank argument, the VerbNet role and the FrameNet element, as in the "talk" example. Store it as enums in a BTreeMap in prag/src/roles.rs. First check that the table reproduces the paper's example.
• I2. Encode a small set of frame-to-frame relations as hand-written rules in world/src/events.rs (Precedes, Using, Causative_of), so that the system can answer "is X a subevent of Y" with the rule that fired. Test on hand-written pairs from the paper's examples.
• I3. Count how many Mova verbs map to more than one VerbNet class (the 1-to-many case) and need the sense to disambiguate. That count sets how much sense work the role step needs.

For Mova

The chapters are 19. The lexicon: vocabulary, multiword expressions and register (the lexicon) and 36. Discourse relations and coherence (event relations). The code is prag/src/roles.rs and world/src/events.rs. The paper gives no measure, so the first measure is the reproduction of its own examples in the table.

Topics: Semantic role labeling

Cite

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.3115/v1/w14-3004

@inproceedings{palmer2014semlink,
  title = {{SemLink+: FrameNet, VerbNet and Event Ontologies}},
  author = {Palmer, Martha and Bonial, Claire and McCarthy, Diana},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of Frame Semantics in NLP: A Workshop in Honor of Chuck Fillmore (1929-2014)},
  year = {2014},
  doi = {10.3115/v1/w14-3004},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.3115/v1/w14-3004}
}

References

17 references, 2 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet.

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16. Martha Palmer, Daniel Gildea, and Paul Kingsbury. 2005. The Proposition Bank: An Annotated Corpus of Semantic Roles. Computational Linguistics, 31(1):71–106 Martha Palmer, Daniel Gildea and Nianwen Xue. find our card
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