This paper presents a work in progress creating a FrameNet-annotated text corpus for Latvian. This is a part of a larger project which aims at the creation of a multilayered corpus, anchored in cross-lingual state-of-the-art syntactic and semantic representations: Universal Dependencies (UD), FrameNet and PropBank, as well as Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR). For annotating the FrameNet layer, we use the latest frame inventory of Berkeley FrameNet, while the annotation itself is done on top of the preceding UD layer. Thus, the annotation of frames and frame elements is guided by the dependency structure of a sentence, instead of the phrase structure. Since we are aiming at a medium-sized still general-purpose corpus for a less-resourced language, another important aspect that we take into account is the balance of the corpus in terms of genres, authors and lexical units. Therefore, the corpus consists of selected paragraphs from many different texts of various types.
@InProceedings{GRUZITIS18.9, author = {Normunds Gruzitis ,Gunta Nespore-Berzkalne and Baiba Saulite}, title = {Creation of Latvian FrameNet based on Universal Dependencies}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {may}, date = {7-12}, location = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Tiago Timponi Torrent and Lars Borin and Collin F. Baker}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, address = {Paris, France}, isbn = {979-10-95546-04-7}, language = {english} }
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