FrameNet Release 1.2 Available for Licensing

^{July 15, 2005}
FrameNet Release 1.2 is now available for licensing. FrameNet is a semantically rich, machine-readable lexicon of English and a corresponding set of annotated sentences for use in advanced natural language processing (NLP) applications.
FrameNet draws on more than two decades of research into the semantics of natural language by Charles Fillmore of ICSI and the University of California at Berkeley. "Professor Fillmore's theory of Frame Semantics provides a way to recognize when different words and expressions are being used to describe the same concept," said Collin Baker, FrameNet project manager. "Humans instantly understand that 'Mary sold John that book for $20 dollars' and 'John bought that book from Mary for $20' are two ways of expressing the same basic idea, but to develop NLP applications like question answering and machine translation you need a formal, computational representation of this fact; that's what FrameNet provides."
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