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  <Title>The FrameNet Data and Software</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> including verbs, nouns and adjectives, for a substantial subset of English.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The basic unit of analysis is the semantic frame, defined as a type of event or state and the participants and &amp;quot;props&amp;quot; associated with it, which we call frame elements (FEs).2 Frames range from highly abstract to quite specific. An example of an abstract frame would be the Replacement frame, with FEs such as OLD and NEW as in the sentence Pat replaced [Old the curtains] [New with wooden blinds].</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> One sense of the verb replace is associated with the Replacement frame, thus constituting one lexical unit (LU), the basic unit of the FrameNet lexicon.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> An example of a more specific frame is Apply heat, with FEs such as COOK, FOOD, MEDIUM, and DURATION. as in Boil [Food the rice] [Duration for 3 minutes] [Medium in water], then drain.3 LUs in Apply heat include char, fry, grill, and microwave, etc.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> In our daily work, we define a frame and its FEs, make lists of words that evoke the frame (its LUs), extract example sentences containing these LUs from corpora, and semi-automatically annotate the parts of the sentences which are the realizations of these FEs, including marking the phrase type (PT) and grammatical function (GF). We can then automatically create a report which constitutes a lexical entry for this LU, detailing all the possible ways in which these FEs can be syntactically realized. The 2In similar approaches, these have been referred to as schemas or scenarios, with their associated roles or slots. 3In this sentence, as in most examples of boil in recipes, the COOK is constructionally null-instantiated, because of the imperative.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> annotated sentences and lexical entries for approximately 7,000 LUs will be available on the FN web-site and the data will be released by the end of August in several formats.</Paragraph>
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