Linking FrameNet to the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology

Deductive reasoning with natural language requires combining lexical resources with the world knowledge provided by ontologies. In this paper we describe the connection of FrameNet --a lexicon for English --to the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO). We align FrameNet Semantic Types (ST) with SUMO classes, which we express in SUO-KIF, the language of SUMO. Based on this general-domain alignment, we have developed a semi-automatic, domain-specific approach for linking FrameNet Frame Elements (FE) to SUMO classes that is based on typical fillers of FEs in a particular domain. We thus provide restricted, ontology-based types on the fillers of FEs. We are confident that our basic work can improve semantic parsing and ontology lexicalization.

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