Abstract
This paper presents a theoretical discussion about the use of Frame Semantics as corpora annotation paradigm. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the applicability of Frame Semantics theory and FrameNet paradigm for the semantic annotation of legal texts. The work presented in this paper is an initial step in the construction of a treebank for the Brazilian legal language.
Highlights
This paper presents a theoretical discussion about the use of Frame Semantics as corpora annotation paradigm
Frame Semantics (Fillmore, 1982, 1985) is a cognitive linguistics theory that explains the complex system of cognitive relations that a speaker must to know in order to understand an utterance
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the applicability of Frame Semantics theory and FrameNet paradigm for the semantic annotation of legal texts
Summary
This paper presents a theoretical discussion about the use of Frame Semantics as corpora annotation paradigm. A semantic annotated treebank of the Brazilian legal language could be used for machine training, especially to summarize legal decisions This semantic annotated corpus to be composed by legal decisions and laws is part of a larger project that researches how linguistic information could be used to improve legal information management and l egal information retrieval in the Brazilian courts. This semantic annotated corpus to be composed by legal decisions and laws is part of a larger project that researches how linguistic information could be used to improve legal information management and l egal information retrieval in the Brazilian courts1 This corpus is being planned to be representative of the entire legal production of Brazilian courts and Brazilian legislative houses, such as the laws published by the Brazilian Senate and the judicial decisions of the Federal Courts. In order to discuss the use of the Frame Semantics theory and FrameNet paradigm for corpus annotation, the remaining sections of this paper are organized as follows: Section 2 presents Frame Semantics theory.
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