@inproceedings{evang-2026-superframes,
    title = "Superframes: A Schema for Lexicon-free Frame-semantic Annotation",
    author = "Evang, Kilian",
    editor = "Zhao, Jin  and
      Post, Claire Benet  and
      Hoefer, Elizabeth",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of The Seventh International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations ({DMR} 2026) @ {LREC} 2026",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma, Mallorca (Spain)",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/test-year-match/2026.dmr-1.11/",
    doi = "10.63317/5ovssg6zoxxc",
    pages = "124--135",
    abstract = "Semantic frame, role, and relation labels are important parts of symbolic meaning representations. The mainstream approach is to define large language-specific lexicons that map predicate senses to their frame and argument labels, and to use separate label inventories for modifiers. Maintaining lexicons is very labor-intensive and scales poorly to the multilingual case. There are schemas that aim to simplify the annotation task using a more coarse-grained inventory of frames and roles, but suffer from a lack of systematicity and clear definitions. We present a schema that 1) uses a small inventory of frames and roles for lexicon-free annotation, 2) systematizes the frame inventory by factoring out aspect and mode, 3) has a unified vocabulary for arguments and modifiers, and 4) is designed to be annotated atop Universal Dependencies syntactic annotation. We argue for the adoption of such a schema for multilingual annotation and demonstrate promising results in annotation experiments on German."
}