Description Systems of the Chinese FrameNet Database and Software Tools

The Chinese FrameNet project is producing a lexicon of Chinese for both human use and NLP applications,based on the principles of Fillmore's Frame Semantics.It includes two parts.One part is the Chinese FrameNet databse(CFN),which contains frames bank,sentences bank,and lexical unit bank.The other part is a suite of software tools related to the CFN,which includes the database management system and the Web-based demonstration system.The paper will give a brief introduction about the description systems of these two parts.