Ontology-based reasoning about lexical resources (original) (raw)

Reasoning about natural language most prominently requires combining semantically rich lexical resources with world knowledge, provided by ontologies. Therefore, we are building bindings from FrameNet-a lexical resource for English-to various ontologies depending on the application at hand. In this paper we show the first step toward such bindings: We translate FrameNet to the Web Ontology Language OWL DL. That way, FrameNet and its annotations become available to Description Logic reasoners and other OWL tools. In addition, FrameNet annotations can provide a high-quality lexicalization of the linked ontologies.