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In:The Swedish FrameNet++: Harmonization, integration, method development and practical language technology applications
Edited by Dana Dannélls, Lars Borin and Karin Friberg Heppin
[Natural Language Processing 14] 2021
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Chapter 1
Introduction

Swedish FrameNet++

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Published online: 26 November 2021
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Abstract
The Swedish FrameNet++ was designed to be several things. As a digital artifact, it is an integrated panchronic lexical macroresource, primarily for Swedish, but including several other languages, intended as a basic infrastructural component in Swedish language technology research and for developing natural language processing applications. As an activity, it is a long-term R&D initiative, initially aimed at bringing about this macroresource, and now at maintaining and extending it, at promoting its use in language technology research and application development, as well as ensuring that the results of this research and development in their turn are incorporated in the macroresource. As a product of research, it reflects both computational and linguistic approaches to lexicology, lexical semantics, and lexical typology.
Article outline
  • 1.The Swedish FrameNet++
  • 2.Rationale and aims of SweFN++
    • 2.1From corpus-based lexicography to language technology R&D
    • 2.2Extending the shelf life of lexical resources
    • 2.3The increasing importance of the lexicon in language technology
    • 2.4A framenet for Swedish
    • 2.5Serendipitous funding and synergies
  • 3.The history of Swedish FrameNet++
  • 4.Integration of existing resources
  • 5.A new resource: Swedish FrameNet
  • 6.Theoretical and methodological considerations
    • 6.1Interlinking of lexical resources
    • 6.2Method matters
      • 6.2.1Zipf to the rescue
      • 6.2.2Towards a general lexical infrastructure: Karp
    • 6.3Linguistic issues
      • 6.3.1Lexicography and (comparative) linguistics
      • 6.3.2Compounds in Swedish FrameNet
      • 6.3.3Multiword expressions
    • 6.4Computational vs. general linguistics
  • 7.Similar initiatives
    • 7.1Multilingual wordnets
    • 7.2MTRoget and multilingual FrameNet
    • 7.3Etymological wordnet, IDS/LWT and the concepticon
    • 7.4BabelNet
      • Postscript on BabelNet 5
  • 8.Status and future
  • 9.This volume
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
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