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Representatives present at Spring 2017 Meeting

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English (ICSI team)

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Japanese FN (Kyoko Ohara)	975	4,960	629	6,618

Summary: The Japanese FrameNet project was launched in July 2002, with Kyoko Ohara (Keio University) as PI. Current team includes Hiroaki Sato (Senshu University) and Hiroaki Saito (Keio University) as co-PIs, as well as two annotators and two programmers. Most of the JFN annotation processes are done manually. Currently the JFN project is funded by two Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research: one is for releasing annotation on the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ) (Apr. 2013 through Mar. 2017); the other is for building a constructicon of Japanese (Apr. 2015 through Mar. 2018). In addition to the two research programs, we started collaboration with the NINJAL Parsed Corpus of Modern Japanese (NPCMJ) project, so that JFN and NPCMJ’s Treebank (a syntactically annotated corpus) will seamlessly be linked.

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Ohara, Kyoko Hirose. 2013. Toward Constructicon Building for Japanese in Japanese FrameNet in Veredas On-Line – Frame Semantics and its technological applications. Vol. 17, No. 1. pp. 11-27. PPG LINGUISTICA/UFJF-JUIZ DE FORA.

Ohara, Kyoko Hirose. 2009. Frame-based contrastive lexical semantics in Japanese FrameNet: The case of risk and kakeru. In Boas, Hans, C.(ed.), Mulitilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography: Methods and Applications. Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 163-182.

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FrameNet Brasil (Tiago Torrent)	1,344	EN 921; ES 533; PT 1,879	249	18,526

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• Started: 2008
• Team: 5 researchers, 1 postdoc, 7 PhD students, 1 MA student, 7 undergraduate students, 2 external staff
• Annotation: manual (100%)
• Current funding: CNPq : R$ 55,000.00; CAPES/STINT: R$ 150,000.00 Prospective Funding: R$ 40,000.00 FAPEMIG Student salaries are payed for by UFJF
• Research plans: (a) Improve Multilingual Knowledge Base on Tourism adding Chatterbot to the app; (b) Improve BP Constructicon and CARMA Parser; © Align BP and Swe Constructicons.

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Peron-Corrêa S., Diniz A., Lara M., Matos E., Torrent T. (2016) FrameNet-Based Automatic Suggestion of Translation Equivalents. In: Silva J., Ribeiro R., Quaresma P., Adami A., Branco A. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9727. Springer, Cham.

Ely Matos, Tiago Torrent, Vânia Almeida, Adrieli Laviola, Ludmila Lage, Natália Marção and Tatiane Tavares. 2017. Constructional Analysis Using Constrained Spreading Activation in a FrameNet-Based Structured Connectionist Model. Presentation at Construction Grammar and NLU, AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford, March 27-29 2017

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German (SALSA) (German FN team)	1,826	1,028	1,826	36,000
German FN/ Constructicon (U Texas)	25	400	25	1,200

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SALSA (U Saarlandes): All the above mentioned SALSA data refers to Release 2 of the SALSA project headed by Manfred Pinkal. Ruppenhofer, Sporleder and Rehbein were part of project team. Semantic annotations were manual. Currently, there is no funding and nobody is working with the SALSA data anymore.

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Rehbein et al. KOVENS 2012: Adding nominal spice to SALSA – frame-semantic annotation of German nouns and verbs [PDF]

German FN/Constructicon (U Texas): On-line learner dictionary G-FOL

• Manual annotation
• In existence since 2012
• Low-level funding (from UT Austin)

Publications:

Boas, Hans C., Dux, Ryan, and Alexander Ziem. 2016b. Frames and constructions in an online learner’s dictionary of German.[PDF] In S. De Knop and Gaetanelle Guilquin (eds.), Applied Construction Grammar, 303-326. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter.

Boas, Hans C. and Ryan Dux. 2013e. Semantic frames for foreign-language education: Towards a German frame-based dictionary. Veridas On-Line 1/2013,
81-100.

Frames & translation ENG-GER:

2011-2012: manual annotation based on a parallel treebank mode in TrEd

2013: a study on direct object in topic position in German and how it translates into English

Publications
Czulo, Oliver. 2013. Constructions-and-frames analysis of translations: The interplay of syntax and semantics in translations between English and German

Czulo, Oliver et al. (to appear). Aspects of a primacy of frame model of translation

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Open Dutch FrameNet (Piek Vossen)	651	about 1,500	651	3,898

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We started 1 January 2017 and the first annotation round will end by May 2017. We already created tools and resources to prepare (annotation tool, Dutch Predicate Matrix (SemLink). We probably do a second round of annotation on nominalisations. The data is used to test (un)supervised acquisition and the development of a Open Dutch FrameNet linked to the Open Dutch WordNet. Project proposal will be submitted in September 2017, if accepted, we start in 2018. Team consists of 2 PostDocs and student assistants for the annotation. Also research master students are involved.
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No publications yet. Probably next LREC

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Swedish FrameNet++ (Ben Lyngfelt)	1200	40,000	not many	not many

Summary: Started in 2009, still ongoing as part of a larger language technology infrastructure effort, but the main source of funding dried up in 2015.
Publication: https://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/research/swefn/publications

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Chinese

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Spanish FrameNet	300	1,350	100	4 (?)

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