Verb Frame Search Tool

Verb Frame Search Tool Maintained by Doug Cooper (bugs to doug@th.net) Center for Research in Computational Linguistics, Bangkok Search LCS data Show: all words common words WordNet 1.6 defs formal semantics Sort by: class number verb type (eg. "Verbs of Preparing") Search VerbNet data Show: all words common words WordNet 1.6 defs formal semantics role summary Sort by: class number verb type (eg. "Basic Transitive") Search FrameNet data -- Verb ordinary verb lookup; eg "carve". -- Class # Levin-like class number (possibly extended). Matches lead string, so "12" matches "12.a.ii". -- Type class description. These are not parallel; LCS focuses on the verb class (eg. 'Verbs of Preparing' or 'Swarm Verbs / Locational') while VerbNet focuses on specific usage (eg. 'Transitive' or 'Locative Alternation'). -- Roles thematic roles, eg. "Agent V Theme". Again, labeling is not parallel, eg. FrameNet has a "Victim" role in many frames. -- role summary all thematic realizations (eg. all "Basic Transitive" frames); any search type. Identical thematic frames may have different semantics (try class # "26.3"). About the tool: I built this tool to get a better picture of the various verb frame projects, and to see what they had to offer for my own work on Thai.
Besides reformatting the original data to ease reading, present different views, and allow head-to-head comparison, the tool permits searching or summarizing of commentary (eg. thematic roles), and adds WordNet 1.6 glosses as practical.
Sources: All data comes from on-line sources (as of 11-15-02) at:
-- LCS (Lexical Conceptual Stuctures) Database, from researchers in the CLIP Lab, University of Maryland, directed by Bonnie J. Dorr. See LCS online 'carve 21.2.a' entry
-- *VerbNet: a Class-Based Verb Lexicon, from Martha Palmer, Karin Kipper, Hoa Trang Dang, and Benjamin Snyder. See More info on VerbNet* VerbNet online 'carve' entry
-- *FrameNet: from Charles Fillmore's group at ICSI/UC Berkeley. See FrameNet online* 'slice' entry
The first two draw from (and extend the numbering of) Beth Levin's English Verb Classes and Alternations.
Limitations: This tool is designed to provide an overview of the data; not to serve as a primary source. It has not been tested exhaustively. The LCS set incorporates data merged from both the raw database and the on-line search tool; in some cases (multiple grids) these may not synchronize exactly.
See also: FrameNet's Frames vs. Levin's Verb Classes Collin F. Baker & Josef Ruppenhofer, ICSI/UC Berkeley. Good overview, although it doesn't really consider the looks across classes provided by Levin's successors (and demo'd here).
Thanks: to Dan Gildea's Unified Verb Index for the idea. Requests for additional bugs or features welcome.