[Lexicog] FrameNet

[Mike Maxwell]

Patrick Hanks wrote:
  > Thirdly, the relationship between semantic types and semantic roles 
needs
> attention. To take an example:
> 
> John treated Mary with antibiotics = [[Healer]] treated [[Patient]] with
> [[Medication]]
> John treated the woodwork with creosote = [[Agent]] treated [[Material]]
> with [[Alterant]]
> 
> Does FN provide sufficient information for the interpretation that in one
> case John is a Healer and in the other an Agent? 

Indeed.  And why are they tagged as above, rather than (say):

 > John treated Mary with antibiotics = [[Agent]] treated
 >      [[Patient]]  with [[Substance]]
 > John treated the woodwork with creosote = [[Worker]] treated
 >      [[Material]] with [[Preservative]]

I suppose there's an ontology behind this, but to this outside observer 
it seems completely arbitrary.
-- 

    Mike Maxwell
    CASL/ University of Maryland


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