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Terminology
Vol. 25:1 (2019) ► pp.1–31

Eliciting specialized frames from corpora using argument-structure extraction techniques

| University of Granada
| Aix-Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, CNRS, LIS
Frame Semantics provides a powerful cross-lingual model to describe the conceptual structure underlying specialized language. Building specialized frames is challenging because of the complex nature of predicate-argument structures, and because of the domain-specific uses of general-language predicates. Our semi-automatic method elicits semantic frames from specialized corpora. It aims to discover lexical patterns that reveal the structure of specialized frames and to populate them with corpus-based data. Firstly, we automatically extracted verb-noun triples from corpora using bootstrapping to identify noun-verb-noun phraseological patterns. Secondly, we annotated each noun-verb-noun triple with the lexical domain of the verbs and the semantic class and role of the noun filling each argument slot. We then used these annotations and patterns to classify similar triples. Thus, the structure and the types of lexical units that belong to each specialized frames were inferred. Specialized corpora analysis of environmental science texts in English and in Spanish illustrate our methodology.
Keywords: Frame Semantics, frame-based terminology, corpora, corpus-based extraction, argument structure
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Cognitive linguistics applied to specialized language
  • 3.Extraction methodology
    • 3.1Corpus description
    • 3.2Query and filtering tools
      • Step 1.Querying the corpora
      • Step 2.Filtering and sorting the results
    • 3.3Search result bootstrapping
  • 4.Frame construction based on argument structure generalization
    • 4.1Characterizing the nuclear meaning of verbs
    • 4.2Characterizing the ontological nature of nouns
      • 4.2.1Natural entities
        • a.Inanimate objects: Mineral, rock, branch
        • b.Material entities: Gas, smoke, ash, lava
        • c.Natural geographical places: Forest, riverbed, shore
      • 4.2.2Actions and events
    • 4.3Characterizing the thematic role of noun-verb pairs
    • 4.4Grouping similar argument structures
  • 5.Results and analyses
    • 5.1Error analysis
    • 5.2Semantic frames of volcanic activity
  • 6.Conclusions and future work
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 24 July 2019
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