Back to the Future Frame Representation and Semantic Technologies

Conceptual frames (with their cousins: lexico-grammar constructs, verb classes, knowledge patterns, schemata, scripts, etc.) are linguistically relevant semantic units, e.g. in Fillmore’s frame semantics, but they are also important units for cognitive science, knowledge representation and the Semantic Web. We revisit the history of the ontology-lexicon interface from the standpoint of semantic technologies, and extend previous work on the interface by designing a framework (Frame Assignment Language) to represent frame semantics on arbitrary resources and methods for knowledge and lexical engineering.