Subcat-LMF: Fleshing out a standardized format for subcategorization frame interoperability

摘要

This paper describes Subcat-LMF, an ISO-LMF compliant lexicon representation format featuring a uniform representation of subcategorization frames (SCFs) for the two languages English and German. Subcat-LMF is able to represent SCFs at a very fine-grained level. We utilized Subcat-LMF to standardize lexicons with large-scale SCF information: the English Verb-Net and two German lexicons, i.e., a subset of IMSlex and GermaNet verbs. To evaluate our LMF-model, we performed a cross-lingual comparison of SCF coverage and overlap for the standardized versions of the English and German lexicons. The Subcat-LMF DTD, the conversion tools and the standardized versions of VerbNet and IMS-lex subset are publicly available.1