Verbframator: Semi-Automatic Verb Frame Annotator Tool with Special Reference to Marathi

The sentence is incomplete without a verb in a language. A verb is majorly responsible for giving the meaning to a sentence. Any sentence can be represented in the form of a verb frame. Verb frames are mainly developed as a knowledge resource which can be used in various semantic level Natural Language Processing (NLP) activities. This paper presents the Verbframator – a verb frame annotator tool which automatically extracts and generates verb frames of example sentences from Marathi wordnet. It also helps in generating Shakti Standard Format (SSF) files of the given example sentences. The generated verb frames and SSF files can be used in the dependency tree banking and other NLP applications like machine translation, paraphrasing, natural language generation, etc.