FrameNet meets the Semantic Web: Lexical Semantics for the Web

Srini Narayanan, Collin Baker, Charles Fillmore, and Miriam Petruck

International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) Berkeley, CA.

This paper describes FrameNet, an online lexical resource for English based on the principles of frame semantics. We provide a data category specification for frame semantics and FrameNet annotations in an RDF-based language. More specifically, we provide an RDF markup for lexical units, defined as a relation between a lemma and semantic frame, and frame-to-frame relations, namely Inheritance and Subframes. The paper includes simple examples of FrameNet annotated sentences in an XML/RDF format that references the project-specific data category specification.