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Journal of Logic and Computation Advance Access published online on April 4, 2008
Journal of Logic and Computation, doi:10.1093/logcom/exm069
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Extracting Frame-Semantics Knowledge using Lattice Theory

Francisco J. Valverde-Albacete *

Dpto. de Teoría de la Señal y de las Comunicaciones, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés 28911, Spain and International Computer Science Institute, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
E-mail: fva{at}tsc.uc3m.es

Received 31 July 2006.


  Abstract

In this article, we introduce a new representation based on lattice theory for lexical data from a lexical-database embodying the frame-semantic approach to language description, FrameNet. We present proof of the abundance of Concept Lattices as proposed in Formal Concept Analysis both in the theory of frames and in its present-day incarnation, the FrameNet resource, by constructing several types of these. We further argue for the adequacy of such lattices in representing linguistic data with contributions that range from data-visualization to the fine-tuning of some frame-theoretical concepts. We argue finally that FrameNet is better thought of as being a lexical resource rather than an ontology, but we make the case throughout the article for Concept Lattices being a linguistically adequate, formally effective intermediate representations from which knowledge representation languages may draw knowledge-rich, linguistic facts from FrameNet at their convenience.

*This work was funded by two ICSI Fellowships for visiting researchers from the Spanish Ministry of Industry, "Visitas de tecnólogos españoles al International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley", in years 2004 and 2006. Copyright ©2007, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.


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