FrameNet Resource Grammar Library for GF
Normunds Gruzitis, Peteris Paikens, Guntis Barzdins

TL;DR
This paper explores integrating FrameNet-based semantics into GF's Resource Grammar Library to facilitate multilingual application development, focusing on verb handling and semantic clause definition.
Contribution
It proposes an extension to GF's RGL enabling semantic-level clause definition using FrameNet, demonstrated through reengineering a multilingual phrasebook.
Findings
Extended RGL supports semantic clause definitions
Multilingual FrameNet-based GF library is feasible
Improves ease of porting GF grammars to new languages
Abstract
In this paper we present an ongoing research investigating the possibility and potential of integrating frame semantics, particularly FrameNet, in the Grammatical Framework (GF) application grammar development. An important component of GF is its Resource Grammar Library (RGL) that encapsulates the low-level linguistic knowledge about morphology and syntax of currently more than 20 languages facilitating rapid development of multilingual applications. In the ideal case, porting a GF application grammar to a new language would only require introducing the domain lexicon - translation equivalents that are interlinked via common abstract terms. While it is possible for a highly restricted CNL, developing and porting a less restricted CNL requires above average linguistic knowledge about the particular language, and above average GF experience. Specifying a lexicon is mostly straightforward…
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