Generalisations over Corpus-induced Frame Assignment Rules

In this paper we discuss motivations and strategies for generalising over instance-based frame assignment rules that we extract from frame-annotated corpora. Corpus-induced syntax-semantics mapping rules for frame assignment can be used for automatic semantic role labelling of unparsed text, but further, to extract linguistic knowledge for a lexical semantic resource with a general syntax-semantics interface. We provide a data analysis of a comprehensive rule set of corpus-induced frame assignment rules, and discuss the potential of applying different types of generalisations and filters, to obtain a uniform extended data set for the extraction of linguistic knowledge.

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