Linking FrameNet to the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology

  • Authors:
  • Jan Scheffczyk;Adam Pease;Michael Ellsworth

  • Affiliations:
  • International Computer Science Institute, 1947 Center St., Suite 600, Berkeley, CA, 94704, {jan,infinity}@icsi.berkeley.edu;Articulate Software, 420 College Ave., Angwin, CA 94508, apease@articulatesoftware.com;International Computer Science Institute, 1947 Center St., Suite 600, Berkeley, CA, 94704, {jan,infinity}@icsi.berkeley.edu

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference (FOIS 2006)
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Deductive reasoning with natural language requires combining lexical resources with the world knowledge provided by ontologies. In this paper we describe the connection of FrameNet --a lexicon for English --to the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO). We align FrameNet Semantic Types (ST) with SUMO classes, which we express in SUO-KIF, the language of SUMO. Based on this general-domain alignment, we have developed a semi-automatic, domain-specific approach for linking FrameNet Frame Elements (FE) to SUMO classes that is based on typical fillers of FEs in a particular domain. We thus provide restricted, ontology-based types on the fillers of FEs. We are confident that our basic work can improve semantic parsing and ontology lexicalization.