SOCIOFILLMORE: A Tool for Discovering Perspectives

TL;DR

SOCIOFILLMORE is a multilingual tool based on frame semantics that identifies and visualizes perspectives in texts depicting events, aiding non-NLP researchers in understanding focus and viewpoints.

Contribution

The paper introduces SOCIOFILLMORE, a novel multilingual tool grounded in frame semantics and cognitive linguistics, with a user-friendly interface for non-NLP researchers.

Findings

Supports multiple languages with a large collection of human judgments

Enables visualization of perspectives in text

Demonstrated through case studies

Abstract

SOCIOFILLMORE is a multilingual tool which helps to bring to the fore the focus or the perspective that a text expresses in depicting an event. Our tool, whose rationale we also support through a large collection of human judgements, is theoretically grounded on frame semantics and cognitive linguistics, and implemented using the LOME frame semantic parser. We describe SOCIOFILLMORE's development and functionalities, show how non-NLP researchers can easily interact with the tool, and present some example case studies which are already incorporated in the system, together with the kind of analysis that can be visualised.