- September 2011
- Hans Boas presents invited plenary lecture "Constructing parallel lexicon fragments based on English FrameNet entries: Semantic and syntactic issues" at the Annual Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL) in Hamburg, Germany.
- August 2011
- German FrameNet conducts pilot study using Personal Relationship frame for vocabulary teaching in lower division German classes.
- April 2011
- Guido Halder successfully defends his dissertation "A frame-semantic approach to German support verb constructions."
Ryan Dux successfully defends his M.A. thesis "A frame-semantic analysis of five English verbs evoking the Theft frame."
- March 2011
- Judith Atzler successfully defends her dissertation "Twist in the List: Frame Semantics as a Vocabulary Teaching and Learning Tool."
- September 2010
- German FrameNet receives funding through a Title VI grant #P229A100014 to fund the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning at The University of Texas at Austin. The goal is to construct a series of parallel lexicon fragments based on FrameNet frames for English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, Yoruba, and Chinese, among other languages.
- August 2010
- Alba Luzondo and Nuria Del Campo Martínez, two visiting Ph.D. students from the University of La Rioja (Spain), are spending the Fall 2010 semester with German FrameNet at UT Austin to conduct research on Frame Semantics and Construction Grammar.
- January 2010
- Anderson Bertoldi (UNISONOS, Brazil) to research frame-semantic principles for constructing bilingual lexicon fragments English-Portuguese.
- January 2009
- Rove Chishman, Associate Professor in the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Lingüística Aplicada at Unisinos, Brazil, spends a semester with the GFN team to research frame-semantic principles of multi-lingual lexicography.
- June 2008
- Hans C. Boas teaches in the National Ph.D. summer course "Expanding Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics" at the University of Bergen, Norway. Click here for the website
- April 2008
- Guido Halder begins his dissertation "A frame-semantic approach to German and English support verb constructions"
- January 2008
- Hans C. Boas offers graduate seminar "Contrastive Lexical Semantics" at UT, using GFN data to demonstrate cross-linguistic applicability of semantic frames
- September 2006
- Han-Chun Huang, a Ph.D. student at the National Tsung Hua University, Taiwan, begins his one-year long research stay with the German FrameNet team to study the Frame Semantics of resultatives in Mandarin, Taiwanese, and Hakka
- August 2006
- Preliminary tagging of German corpus and implementation of Berkeley FrameNet pipeline. See http://gframenet.blogspot.com for updates.
- January 2006
- ~FAST Tex grant for implementation of German FrameNet, Center for Instructional Technologies, UT Austin
- November 2005
- Aquisition of German corpus and lexicon for annotation purposes
- July 2005
- Successful download and installation of Berkley FrameNet database
- March 2005
- Begin of computation implementation of German FrameNet
- January 2005
- ~FAST Tex grant for implementation of German FrameNet, Center for Instructional Technologies, UT Austin
- October 2004
- GFN-presentation at the First Cross-linguistic FrameNet Meeting, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA: "Semantic Frames as an Interlanguage for Multilingual Lexical Databases"
Last updated March 2012
