Interfacing Lexical and Ontological Information in a Multilingual Soccer FrameNet

This paper presents ongoing work on a multilingual (English, French, German) lexical resource of soccer language. The first part describes how lexicographic descriptions based on frame-semantic principles are derived from a partially aligned multilingual corpus of soccer match reports. The remainder of the paper then discusses how different types of ontological knowledge are linked to this resource in order to provide an access structure to the resulting dictionary. It is argued that linking lexical resources and ontologies in such a way provides novel ways to a dictionary user of navigating a domain vocabulary.