Lutma: a Frame-Making Tool for Collaborative FrameNet Development

TL;DR

Lutma is a collaborative, tutorial-based tool designed to facilitate the creation and expansion of FrameNet frames and lexical units across languages and cultures, promoting consistency and community involvement.

Contribution

It introduces a semi-constrained, wizard-like interface for collaborative frame creation, enhancing FrameNet coverage and cultural diversity.

Findings

Enables consistent frame creation through guided tutorials

Supports multilingual and multicultural frame development

Facilitates community-driven expansion of FrameNet

Abstract

This paper presents Lutma, a collaborative, semi-constrained, tutorial-based tool for contributing frames and lexical units to the Global FrameNet initiative. The tool parameterizes the process of frame creation, avoiding consistency violations and promoting the integration of frames contributed by the community with existing frames. Lutma is structured in a wizard-like fashion so as to provide users with text and video tutorials relevant for each step in the frame creation process. We argue that this tool will allow for a sensible expansion of FrameNet coverage in terms of both languages and cultural perspectives encoded by them, positioning frames as a viable alternative for representing perspective in language models.