FrameNet Members Win Antonio Zampolli Prize
May 25, 2012
Professor Charles Fillmore and Collin Baker of ICSI's FrameNet Project are co-winners of the Antonio Zampolli Prize, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement of language resources and language technology evaluation. Fillmore, the founder and director of FrameNet, and Baker, its project manager, share the prize with the Oriental Committee for the Co-Ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (Oriental COCOSDA). The prize was announced on May 25 during the closing session of the Language Resources Evaluation Conference (LREC) in Istanbul, Turkey.
The prize, of €10,000, is given every two years by the European Language Resources Association, which organizes LREC, and is named in honor of its first president.
The FrameNet Project is building a lexical database, usable by both machines and humans, that describes the relationships between words in order to extract meaning from texts. Fillmore established the project at ICSI in 1997; Baker has served as its project manager since 2000.
The Oriental COCOSDA is an all-volunteer organization that holds annual conferences on speech databases and technologies for Asian languages.
FrameNet was well represented at this year's LREC, with two conference papers and two workshop papers authored or co-authored by FrameNet members. Affiliates and others presented seven other papers that deal directly with FrameNet, including frame semantic research on Japanese, Italian, and Swedish. FrameNet also played a prominent role in a workshop on collaborative annotation and a meeting on linking lexical resources, both collocated with LREC.
Read FrameNet's LREC papers:
Empirical Comparisons of MASC Word Sense Annotations. G. de Melo, C. F. Baker, N. Ide, R. J. Passonneau, and C. Fellbaum. Proceedings of the 8th Conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), Istanbul, Turkey.
The MASC Word Sense Corpus. R. Passonneau, C. Baker, C. Fellbaum, and N. Ide. Proceedings of the 8th Conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), Istanbul, Turkey.
Precedes: A Semantic Relation in FrameNet. M. R. L. Petruck and G. de Melo. Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Resources for Public Security Applications at the 8th Conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), Istanbul, Turkey.
The MASC/MultiMASC Community Collaboration Project: Why You Should Be Involved and How. N. Ide, C. Baker, C. Fellbaum, and R. Passonneau. Proceedings of the Workshop on Collaborative Resource Development and Delivery at the 8th Conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), Istanbul, Turkey.