Date: 09-Sep-2009 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography: Boas (Ed) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography
Subtitle: Methods and Applications
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 200
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Editor: Hans C. Boas
Electronic: ISBN: 9783110212976 Pages: 352 Price: U.S. $ 140.00 Comment: for orders placed in North America
Electronic: ISBN: 9783110212976 Pages: 352 Price: Europe EURO 112.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110212969 Pages: 352 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110212969 Pages: 352 Price: U.S. $ 140.00 Comment: for orders placed in North America
This book demonstrates how the underlying principles of the English-based FrameNet project are successfully applied to the description and analysis of typologically diverse languages.
The stimulating collection of articles brings together insights from lexical semantics, corpus linguistics, computational lexicography, machine learning, and psychology to address three main questions:
1. To what degree is it possible to apply semantic frames derived from the English lexicon to the description and analysis of other languages? 2. What types of resources are necessary for the creation of FrameNets for French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, and Spanish? 3. How can the creation of multilingual FrameNets be automated?
The contents exemplifies the liveliness of current research on cross-lingual applications of Frame Semantics to natural language processing.