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Multilingual FrameNet Meeting

March 25-26, 2017 at ICSI

Preliminary agenda for 2017.03.26

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Quick reports on status of each FrameNet (5-8 minutes each)

Project summaries page

(representatives present)	(no representative present)
English (ICSI team)	Chinese
Japanese (Kyoko Ohara)	Spanish
Portuguese (Tiago Torrent)	French
German (German FN team)	Italian
Dutch (Piek Vossen)	Latvian
Swedish (Ben Lyngfelt)	Hebrew
	Arabic
	Korean
	Danish

Invited talks (20 min each + discussion)

• Joint Development of Lexicon and Constructicon in FrameNet (Tiago Torrent)
• Aligning Multilingual FN data: the story so far (Luca Gilardi)
• Some Fundamental Questions about Frame Relations across Languages (Kyoko Ohara)
• Developing the Multilingual web annotation tool (Ely Matos and Tiago Torrent)

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Lunch (~12:00-13:00, Takeout from Gecko Gecko) )
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General Discussion

• Basic questions about what to do when situations are framed differently in different languages

Preliminary topics for discussion/breakout groups

• What sort of annotation will produce the most useful cross-linguistic information?
• Status of the Parallel Annotation Project
• How parallel or comparable should corpora be to provide useful cross-linguistic data on framing?
  Suggested sources:

Parallel	Comparable
	Fairy tales
TED talk	Wikipedia: Places/ Countries
Fan fiction	Hotel reviews/ movie reviews
Bible	Wikipedia movie plot synopses/ literature articles
Illiad	Sports event reports
Open source help texts (KDE, Mozilla)	Wikitravel
	Wikihow article “How to not procrastinate”

• What are the trade-offs in representing meaning in frames/LUs vs. constructions? How do the trade-offs differ across languages?
• A discussion about future plans for
  • Berkeley FrameNet (i.e.: what happens after there is no more funding or people leave (for whatever reason) … what will happen to FrameNet and its data long-term?)
  • Long term funding strategies, specifically partnering with industry
• What can Universal Dependencies tell us about constructions? What can AMR tell us about frames (and vice-versa)?
• Plans for the meeting just before ACL in Vancouver