Illustrative materials for the synsem module
The SynSem module is one of the modules published at with the 2016 Community Report. Recently, a number of questions about some modelling decisions, its use, and (possibly) revision or replacement have been raised. Aside from the original use case for valency dictionaries, there has been a lot of uncertainty on whether and how to extend OntoLex and SynSem to semantic roles (thematic roles, frames).
Although there is no formal discussion of the topic in the form of an OntoLex telco series, materials to prepare such a discussion can be deposited here. Likewise, materials that illustrate how SynSem is currently used.
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OntoLex SynSem model (2016)
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post-2016: Discussion of Valency and Semantics
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2013/14: pre-release discussions
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2012: Monnet-Lemon modelling
Historically, OntoLex synsem goes back to LMF SubcategorizationFrame, during the development of OntoLex-Lemon. The name was changed and it was extended for semantic frames (in the sense of semantic role labelling), as in the 2013/14 wiki page. However, this modelling was considered to not be sufficiently mature and omitted from the 2016 specification. The property lemon:semArg has been replaced by synsem:ontoCorrespondence, but this function is obfuscated by the eventual definition of synsem:ontoCorrespondence. As a consequence, OntoLex frame now primarily accounts for subcategorization frames only, but semantic frames require additional vocabulary.
Please put
- data samples under
data - related research under
lit - descriptions of requirements under
requirements
- PreMoN: Unifying SRL formalisms with RDF+Lemon (see
data/premon) - FrameBase: Mapping ontologies to semantic frames
Note: This repository uses the submodule mechanism to point to external GitHub repositories that hold related data. To clone it locally, use
$> git clone --recurse-submodules --remote-submodules https://github.com/ontolex/synsem