36.2102, Books: Universality of Semantic Frames and Language Specific Bulgarian Data: Koeva (ed.) (2025)

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Date: 08-Jul-2025
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [support at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Universality of Semantic Frames and Language Specific Bulgarian Data: Koeva (ed.) (2025)


Title: Universality of Semantic Frames and Language Specific Bulgarian
Data
Series Title: Frame-Based Approaches to Semantics
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Language Science Press
           http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/474

Editor(s): Svetla Koeva

eBook

Abstract:

The book Universality of semantic frames and language specific
Bulgarian data is devoted to the principles of data organisation in
the Bulgarian FrameNet, which has been in development for more than 20
years and has gone through various phases. Originally it was developed
as an independent resource, but for about fifteen years it has been
correlated with the Berkeley FrameNet, observing the following basic
principles: The information in the FrameNet that is relevant for the
description of Bulgarian is considered language-independent (e.g.
definition of frames and relations between them, definitions of frames
and elements and relations between them, etc.) and is automatically
transferred into a structure called a superframe. For each superframe,
there may be one or more Bulgarian frames in which the
language-independent information is restructured, if necessary, so
that it corresponds exactly to the description for the Bulgarian
language. The Bulgarian verbs of communication, change, movement,
contact and emotion are described in more detail, their subclasses are
delineated and the similarities and differences in the semantic and
syntactic description for Bulgarian and English are compared and
discussed. It is shown how the semantic frames can be used in an
experiment to assess children's mastery of semantic conceptualisation
and syntactic use of verbs from their basic vocabulary. These and a
number of other applications: automatic assignment of semantic roles,
automatic recognition of events in news, automatic recognition of
scenes in images and videos are some of the applications in which the
Bulgarian FrameNet can be used. In addition, the semantic and
syntactic information in the Bulgarian FrameNet can be used for
theoretical considerations, including comparative studies focussing on
the modern state of the Bulgarian language and other languages for
which a FrameNet has been developed.

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics

Subject Language(s): Bulgarian (bul)

Written In: English (eng)



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