Towards Hebrew FrameNet

Thanks to a publicly available Hebrew language (newspaper) corpus1, as well as other web-based resources, such as Rav-Milim2 and Hebrew WordNet3, the creation of Hebrew FrameNet (HFN) has become possible. Moreover, there are good prospects for cooperation and collaboration with the computational linguistics community in Israel (e.g. access to larger corpora for research and evaluation purposes, use of software for lemmatization and search, links to Hebrew WordNet, where appropriate). In the context of a research project that investigates the universality of the semantic frame, initial steps have been taken towards the development of Hebrew FrameNet, an on-line lexical resource for contemporary Hebrew which will provide the semantic and syntactic combinatorial possibilites, or valences, for each item analyzed, through the manual annotation of example sentences in a newspaper corpus (and eventually, the automatic capture and organization of the annotation results for web-based viewing and querying). With advances in computer technology and the existence of (searchable) corpora, the work of lexicography has changed dramatically in recent years. The fine-grained semantic classification and syntagmatic information of the sort t