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Multilingual FrameNet Meeting

March 25-26, 2017 at ICSI

Agenda for 2017.03.25

• Discussions of progress and problems of FrameNet-based projects for each language.
• Demonstration of new Multilingual annotation tool “Web Tool” (Tiago Torrent, FrameNet Brasil)
  • Discussion of bugs in and feature requests for the annotation tool
• Discussion of future texts to be annotated, and their copyright status and availability across languages

Agenda for 2017.03.26

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

(representatives present)	(no representative present)
English (ICSI team)	Chinese
Japanese (Kyoko Ohara)	Spanish
FN Brasil (Tiago Torrent)	French
Swedish FN++ (Ben Lyngfelt)	Italian
Dutch FN (Piek Vossen)	Latvian
German (German FN team)	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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Working 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?
• Stackoverflow/ WIki/ OWN platform, etc. for collaboration?
• 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 in conjunction with ACL in Vancouver