Universality of semantic frames and language specific Bulgarian data

Svetlozara Leseva; Svetla Koeva; Ivelina  Stoyanova; Maria Todorova; Hristina Kukova; Valentina Stefanova; Tsvetana Dimitrova

Forthcoming: Universality of semantic frames and language specific Bulgarian data

Svetla Koeva (ed)

Synopsis

The book Universality of semantic frames and language specific Bulgarian data is devoted to the principles of data organisation in the Bulgarian FrameNet, which has been in development for more than 20 years and has gone through various phases. Originally it was developed as an independent resource, but for about fifteen years it has been correlated with the Berkeley FrameNet, observing the following basic principles: The information in the FrameNet that is relevant for the description of Bulgarian is considered language-independent (e.g. definition of frames and relations between them, definitions of frames and elements and relations between them, etc.) and is automatically transferred into a structure called a superframe. For each superframe, there may be one or more Bulgarian frames in which the language-independent information is restructured, if necessary, so that it corresponds exactly to the description for the Bulgarian language. The Bulgarian verbs of communication, change, movement, contact and emotion are described in more detail, their subclasses are delineated and the similarities and differences in the semantic and syntactic description for Bulgarian and English are compared and discussed. It is shown how the semantic frames can be used in an experiment to assess children's mastery of semantic conceptualisation and syntactic use of verbs from their basic vocabulary. These and a number of other applications: automatic assignment of semantic roles, automatic recognition of events in news, automatic recognition of scenes in images and videos are some of the applications in which the Bulgarian FrameNet can be used. In addition, the semantic and syntactic information in the Bulgarian FrameNet can be used for theoretical considerations, including comparative studies focussing on the modern state of the Bulgarian language and other languages for which a FrameNet has been developed.

Chapters

Universality of semantic frames vs. specificity of conceptual frames

Svetla Koeva
Language-independent and language-specific properties of semantic description
A case study on verbs of communication

Svetlozara Leseva, Ivelina Stoyanova
The complex conceptual structure of verbs of change

Ivelina Stoyanova
The conceptualisation of the route
Non-directed and directed motion verbs in Bulgarian and English

Svetlozara Leseva
Frame semantics and verbs of contact

Maria Todorova
Frame semantics and verbs of emotion

Hristina Kukova
Basic verb vocabulary
An empirical approach to argument structure and word associations

Valentina Stefanova, Maria Todorova, Tsvetana Dimitrova

Author Biography

Svetla Koeva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Dr Svetla Koeva is Professor of Computational Linguistics and Head of the Department of Computational Linguistics at the Institute for Bulgarian Language of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests are in the field of computational linguistics, formal description of language: morphology and syntax, lexical-semantic networks and ontologies. She is the main person responsible for the development of various language resources for Bulgarian, such as: Bulgarian FrameNet, Bulgarian WordNet, Bulgarian National Corpus, Text Processing Chain, etc. From 2012 to 2021 Svetla Koeva was Director of the Institute for Bulgarian Language and is currently Chair of the Institute's Research Council. Svetla Koeva is also editor-in-chief of the Papers of the Institute for Bulgarian Language and the weekly column The Written Word Remains. Write Correctly! Svetla Koeva has published 5 books and over 250 research publications. She has been honoured with six research awards from the National Science Fund of the Ministry of Education and Science and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Published

October 1, 2024

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Series

Frame-Based Approaches to Semantics

Cite as

Koeva, Svetla (ed.). Forthcoming. Universality of semantic frames and language specific Bulgarian data. (Frame-Based Approaches to Semantics). Berlin: Language Science Press.