Increasing Coverage of Syntactic Subcategorization Patterns in FrameNet Using Verbnet

Abstract

We analyze the extent to which lexicographic annotations in FrameNet exemplify syntactic sub categorization patterns in corpora and present a method based on Verb net to decrease syntactic coverage gaps for most defined lexical units in FrameNet by 98% with high precision. The expanded set of annotated example sentences comprises about three times as many example sentences than those provided by FrameNet.