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Frames, constructions, and computation
Edited by Lars Borin, Gerard de Melo, Karin Friberg Heppin and Tiago Timponi Torrent
[Constructions and Frames 6:1] 2014
► pp. 92–113

Automatic expansion of the Swedish FrameNet lexicon

Comparing and combining lexicon-based and corpus-based methods

| University of Gothenburg

We evaluate several lexicon-based and corpus-based methods to automatically induce new lexical units for the Swedish FrameNet, and we see that the best-performing setup uses a combination of both types of methods. A particular challenge for Swedish is the absence of a lexical resource such as WordNet; however, we show that the semantic network SALDO, which is organized according to lexicographical principles quite different from those of WordNet, is very useful for our purposes.

Keywords: semantics, Swedish, natural language processing, distributional methods, lexical resources, SALDO, FrameNet
Published online: 19 August 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.6.1.06joh
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