La sémantique des cadres et le projet FRAMENET: Une approche différente de la notion de « valence »

Abstract

We introduce the theory of Frame Semantics, in which word senses are defined in relation to semantic frames. The prototypical semantic frame is a conceptualization of a type of event, with its participant roles (frame elements, FEs), props, and circumstances, but frames can also represent classes of relations, states, and even entities. A lexical unit (LU = word sense) is defined as a relation between a lemma and a semantic frame ; we give three examples of frames, each with FEs, LUs, and annotated examples, and introduce the FrameNet (FN) Project ( http://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu), which is building a frame semantic lexicon of English with 960 + frames and 11,700 + LUs. We show how FN displays the valence information for an LU, and how semantic dependency graphs can be derived from FN- annotated sentences. We discuss relations between frames and FEs, the structure of the FN database, FrameNets for other languages, the limitations of FN, and a new project to annotate syntactic constructions In a similar way.