Automatic Frame Extraction from Sentences

We present a method for automatic extraction of frames from a dependency graph. Our method uses machine learning applied to a dependency tree to identify frames and assign frame elements. The system is evaluated by cross-validation on FrameNet sentences, and also on the test data from the SemEval 2007 task 19. Our system is intended for use in natural language processing applications such as summarization, entailment, and novelty detection.

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