FRAMENET

The Danish FrameNet is a joined project of the University of Southern Denmark and the language-technology company GrammarSoft, and has been ongoing since 2006. It is inspired by the Berkley FrameNet project, as well as Martha Palmer's VerbNet and PropBank projects... To construct the Danish framenet, syntactic verb complementation patterns from a Danish valency lexicon are combined with distributional information drawn from Danish text corpora annotated with the DanGram system with syntactic-structural information (dependency) on the one hand and semantic roles on the other. Another layer of information, ARG0-1-2, used in the English PropBank, will be implicit and can be deduced from the combination of semantic roles and syntactic function (also part of the DanGram annotation)... The system uses about 500 different semantic verb classes (verb sense frames), and 38 semantic roles, the latter modelled on the role set for DanGram's Portuguese sister grammar PALAVRAS semantic roles),..