Sebastian Padó and Mirella Lapata. 2005. Cross-lingual Bootstrapping of Semantic Lexicons: The Case of FrameNet. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 859-866. Vancouver.

This paper considers the problem of automatically inducing role-semantic annotations in the FrameNet paradigm for new languages. We introduce a general framework for semantic projection which exploits parallel texts, is relatively inexpensive and can potentially reduce the amount of effort involved in creating semantic resources. We propose projection models that exploit lexical and syntactic information. Experimental results on an English- German parallel corpus demonstrate the advantages of this approach.

@InProceedings{Pado:Lapata:05b,
  author =       {Sebastian Pad\'{o} and Mirella Lapata},
  title =        {Cross-lingual Bootstrapping of Semantic Lexicons: The Case of FrameNet},
  crossref =     {EMNLP:05},
  pages =        {859--866}
}

@Proceedings{EMNLP:05,
  title =        {Proceedings of the HLT/EMNLP},
  booktitle =    {Proceedings of the HLT/EMNLP},
  address =      {Vancouver},
  year =         2005
}