FrameNet: Theory and Practice (original) (raw)

We refer to these two three-year stages in the life of the project as FrameNet I and FrameNet II.) A one-year extension to cover the period August 2003 to August 2004 has been made possible by financial support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency added to two subcontracts with the National Science Foundation. We gratefully acknowledge the support of Oxford University Press, which, through Timothy Benbow, made it possible for us to use the British National Corpus as the evidential basis for our inquiry into the behavior of English words. Also, through Robert Scriven, OUP gave us permission to select definitions from the Concise English Dictionary to serve as as parts of the FrameNet lexical entries. We are grateful to Bolt Beranek and Newman Corporation for allowing us to use their Identifinder software, which provides high quality named entity recognition as part of our subcorporation process. We are indebted to the Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung of the University of Stuttgart, through the kindness of Ulrich Heid and Oliver Christ, for the IMS Corpus Workbench software, which has made it easy for us to extract, explore, and sort example lines and sentences from the BNC. Jerome Feldman was Director of ICSI during most of the FrameNet I period, and is currently head of the Artificial Intelligence group at the Institute; Nelson Morgan has been ICSI Director during the FrameNet II period. Their generosity, along with the efficiency of the technical and administrative staff of this Institute, have made ICSI a welcoming environment for our activities. The Institute's Visitors Program has allowed us, further, to profit from visits between a few months and two years on the part of a number of international researchers-from Spain, Germany, Finland, and Singapore-who participated in the work of the project at various levels, in some cases initiating related efforts elsewhere.