Eliciting specialized frames from corpora using argument-structure extraction techniques

International audienceFrame Semantics provides a powerful cross-lingual model to describe the conceptual structure underlying specialized language. However, building specialized frames is challenging because of the complex nature of predicate-argument structures, and because of the domain-specific uses of general-language predicates. This article presents a semi-automatic method to elicit semantic frames from specialized corpora. Its goal is to discover lexical patterns that reveal the structure of specialized frames and to populate them with corpus-based data. Firstly, we automatically extracted verb-nou