Linking FrameNet to the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology

Abstract

Deductive reasoning with natural language requires combining lexical resources with the world knowledge provided by ontologies. In this paper we describe the connection of FrameNet – a lexicon for English – to the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO). We express general-domain links between FrameNet Semantic Types (ST) and SUMO classes in SUO-KIF, the language of SUMO. Based on these links, we have developed a semi-automatic, domain-specific approach for linking FrameNet Frame Elements (FE) to SUMO classes that is based on typical fillers of an FE in a particular domain. We thus provide restricted, ontology-based types on the fillers of FEs. Our work will enable several lines of experimentation for semantic parsing and ontology lexicalization. 1