Sebastian Padó and Mirella Lapata. 2009. Cross-lingual Annotation Projection for Semantic Roles. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 36, 307--340.

This article considers the task of automatically inducing role-semantic annotations in the FrameNet paradigm for new languages. We propose a general framework that is based on annotation projection, phrased as a graph optimization problem. It is relatively inexpensive and has the potential to reduce the human effort involved in creating role-semantic resources. Within this framework, we present projection models that exploit lexical and syntactic information. We provide an experimental evaluation on an English-German parallel corpus which demonstrates the feasibility of inducing high-precision German semantic role annotation both for manually and automatically annotated English data.

@Article{Pado:Lapata:09,
  author = 	 {Sebastian Pad\'{o} and Mirella Lapata},
  title = 	 {Cross-lingual Annotation Projection for Semantic Roles},
  journal = 	 {Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research},
  year = 	 2009, 
  volume=        {36},
  pages =        {307--340}
}