This book demonstrates how the underlying principles of the English-based FrameNet project are
successfully applied to the description and analysis of typologically diverse languages.The
stimulating collection of articles brings together insights from lexical semantics corpus
linguistics computational lexicography machine learning and psychology to address three main
questions: To what degree is it possible to apply semantic frames derived from the English
lexicon to the description and analysis of other languages? What types of resources are
necessary for the creation of FrameNets for French German Hebrew Japanese and Spanish? How
can the creation of multi-lingual FrameNets be automated? The contents exemplifies the
liveliness of current research on cross-lingual applications of Frame Semantics to natural
language processing.
