Creation of Latvian FrameNet based on Universal Dependencies

This paper presents a work in progress, creating a FrameNet-annotated text corpus for Latvian. This is a part of a larger project which aims at the creation of a multilayered corpus, anchored in cross-lingual state-of-the-art syntactic and semantic representations: Universal Dependencies (UD), FrameNet and PropBank, as well as Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR). For annotating the FrameNet layer, we use the latest frame inventory of Berkeley FrameNet, while the annotation itself is done on top of the underlying UD layer. Thus, the annotation of frames and frame elements is guided by the dependency structure of a sentence, instead of the phrase structure. We strictly follow a corpus-driven approach, meaning that lexical units in Latvian FrameNet are created only based on the annotated corpus examples. Since we are aiming at a medium-sized still general-purpose corpus for a less-resourced language, an important aspect that we take into account is the variety and balance of the corpus in terms of genres, domains and lexical units.