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On Developing of the FrameNet-Like Resource for Tatar

Ayrat Gatiatullin, Alexander Kirillovich and Olga Nevzorova

Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia
ayrat.gatiatullin@gmail.com, alik.kirillovich@gmail.com,
onevzoro@gmail.com

Abstract. In this paper, we present TatVerbBank, the first FrameNet-like re-
source for Tatar language. TatVerbBank is organized as a collection of semantic
and syntactic frames. A semantic frame contains semantic roles associated with
a concept (for example, for the concept of gift, the roles are giver, recipient, gift,
time, etc.). A syntactic frame contains a subcategorization model for a particular
Tatar lexical entry and its mapping to semantic roles. The developed resource is
represented in terms of Lemon, LexInfo and PREMON ontologies and will we
published at Linguistic Linked Open Data cloud.

Keywords: FrameNet, Tatar language, Linguistic Linked Open Data.

1 Introduction

In this paper, we present TatVerbBank, the first FrameNet-like resource for Tatar lan-
guage. This project is inspired by FrameNet and FrameBank [1].
Russian FrameBank is a bank of annotated samples with lexical constructions (e.g.
argument constructions of verbs and nouns) from the Russian National Corpus. Frame-
Bank belongs to FrameNet-oriented resources, but unlike Berkeley FrameNet it focuses
more on morphosyntactic and semantic features of individual lexemes rather than on
generalized frames.
In FrameNet the central element is the frame, but in FrameBank the lexeme is the
central element and individual lexeme has its own set of lexical constructions. The re-
source directory contains a list of lexemes, but not frames. Each sense of a lexeme can
be represented by a unique frame.
Information about each lexical construction in FrameBank is stored as a construction
template, which includes [1]:

1. the syntactic rank of the element (Subject, Object, Predicate, Peripheral, Clause);
2. the morphosyntactic features of the element (including POS, case and preposition
marking);
3. its status: lexical constant vs. variable;
4. the semantic roles of the argument (e.g., Agent, Patient, Instrument);
5. the lexical-semantic class of the element (e.g., human, animate, abstract entity,
means of transport, etc.);

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6. the morphosyntactic features of the target lexical unit itself (e.g. impersonal, passive
participle, etc.);
7. one or several examples.

FrameBank serves as a main prototype for developing the Tatar VerbBank resource
(hereinafter TatVerbBank).
The source of data for the VerbBank resource is the “Tugan tel” Tatar National Cor-
pus (http://tugantel.turklang.tatar). Taking the descriptions of the model of construc-
tions in FrameBank as the basis, we are taking into account the specific characteristics
of the Tatar language. Our goal is to create a dictionary of verb constructions with se-
mantic and especially syntactic information about verbal actants.
We develop our dictionary based on valency grammar as syntactic theory. At this
stage, we use a reduced model of construction descriptions in Tatar compared with
FrameBank, which includes:

1. the syntactic rank of the element (Subject, Object, Predicate, Peripheral, Clause);
2. the morphosyntactic features of the element (including POS, affix marking);
3. the semantic roles of the argument (e.g., Agent, Patient, Instrument);
4. the lexical-semantic class of the element (e.g., human, animate, abstract entity,
means of transport, etc.);
5. one or several examples.

2 Semantic Roles in FrameBank and TatVerbBank

A base hierarchy of predicates and semantic roles is defined in FrameBank. The de-
tailed list of semantic roles in this resource currently contains 91 items classified into
seven domains such as Agent, Possessives, Patient, Addressee, Experiencer, Instrument
and Settings. These domains are further subdivided into smaller units. It allows select-
ing different sets of semantic roles in individual lexical constructions.
For example, the role of Agent is defined as an active (prototypically animate) par-
ticipant of a situation, intentionally changing something in the world. However there
are more specific verbs with their own semantic roles (Speaker, Subject of motion,
Subject of social relationship, etc.). These semantic roles are included in the hierarchy
of agents and are linked with the predicates of the corresponding thematic classes. Tat-
VerbBank uses the same set of semantic roles as defined in FrameBank. Core roles
uniquely define frames, and peripheral roles are used to describe aspects of events in
general.

3 TatVerbBank Description

When building TatVerbBank, we are using various lexical resources for the Tatar lan-
guage. It should be noted that there is a lack of semantic dictionaries for the Tatar lan-
guage. The main lexical resource is the Russian-Tatar explanatory dictionary by F.A.

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Ganiev. Another lexical resource is the Russian-Tatar Social-Political thesaurus devel-
oped in Institute of Applied Semiotics of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences
(http://tattez.turklang.tatar). At the first stage, we developed the verb dictionary which
consists of Tatar lexemes denoting events, phenomena or processes. Then we grouped
words into “sense groups” and built a proto-structure (proto-frame) for each group. The
verbs (concepts) from the verb dictionary can be ambiguous and have different senses.
Then we linked concepts of this dictionary with concepts of the Russian-Tatar Social-
Political thesaurus to find ambiguous concepts.
The TatVerbBank resource unit is represented by a coherent structure with appro-
priate semantic and syntactic frames, as well as thesaurus concepts. The example of the
TatVerbBank resource unit is shown on figure 1.
Here, the concept GRANT has two hypernyms (PAYMENT and AID) in the thesau-
rus. Also, for the given concept gives lexical units (text inputs) in Russian and Tatar
(verb субсидировать (ru)/ analytical verb субсидия бирү (tat) /to grant from the
budget (en)). The frame GRANT has core semantic roles as PAYER, RECIPIENT and
SUBSIDY. Each core semantic role has its own case form as PAYER in nominative case,
RECIPIENT in dative case, SUBSIDY in accusative case.

Fig. 1. Data Relationships in the TatVerbBank Model

4 TatVerbBank in Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud

The resource is intended to be integrated into Linguistic Linked Open Data cloud [2]
and is represented in terms of Lemon [3], LexInfo, OLiA [4] and PREMON [5] ontol-
ogies as well as a new custom ontology.

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The lexical entries are represented as instances of ontolex:LexicalEntry class, syn-
tactic frames as instances of synsem:SyntacticFrame class and semantic frames as in-
stances of pmo:SemanticClass class. The frames are interlinked with RuThes Cloud [6]
concepts and lexical entries are interlinked with TatThes [7] entries.
Fig. 2 depicts an example of оч ‘to fly’ lexical entry, the syntactic frame of this entry
and its arguments as well as the Fly semantic frame and its frame elements, mapped to
the syntactic arguments.

a ontolex:LexicalEntry;
rdfs:label "оч"@tt;
lexinfo:partOfSpeech lexinfo:verb;
ontolex:canonicalForm
;
ontolex:evokes
;
synsem:synBehavior
.

a ontolex:Form;
ontolex:writtenRep "очу"@tt;
lexinfo:verbFormMood lexinfo:gerunditive.

a pmo:SemanticClass;
rdfs:label "Fly frame"@en;
skos:broader ;
pmo:semRole
,
,
,
,
.

a pmo:SemanticRole;
tvbo:thematicRole tvbo:agent.

a pmo:SemanticRole;
tvbo:thematicRole tvbo:source.

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a pmo:SemanticRole;
tvbo:thematicRole tvbo:goal.

a pmo:SemanticRole;
tvbo:thematicRole tvbo:place.

a pmo:SemanticRole;
tvbo:thematicRole tvbo:purpose.

a synsem:SyntacticFrame;
synsem:synArg
,
,
,
,
.

a synsem:SyntacticArgument;
lexinfo:case lexinfo:nominativeCase;
pmo:valueObj .

a synsem:SyntacticArgument;
lexinfo:case lexinfo:ablativeCase;
pmo:valueObj .

a synsem:SyntacticArgument;
lexinfo:case lexinfo:allativeCase;
pmo:valueObj .

a synsem:SyntacticArgument;
lexinfo:case lexinfo:locativeCase;
pmo:valueObj .

a synsem:SyntacticArgument;
lexinfo:partOfSpeech lexinfo:verb;
lexinfo:verbFormMood lexinfo:infinitive;
tvbo:preposition ;

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pmo:valueObj .

Fig. 2. The очу lexical entry and its syntactic and semantic frames

5 Conclusion

In this paper we presented TatFrameBank, the first FrameNet-like resource for Tatar
language.
The resource is under development now and our immediate goal is to release its
public version consisting of approximately 100 key verbs. After that, we are going to:
1. complement the frames by their realizations from the national corpus of Tatar
language “Tugan Tel”;
2. develop frames for less frequent verbs;
3. develop frames for other parts of speech and idiomatic phrases.

Acknowledgements. The work was funded by Russian Science Foundation according
to the research project no. 19-71-10056.

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