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Meanings of syntactic idioms in Japanese: Challenges for L2 Learners, Frame Semanticists, and Construction Grammarians

Kyoko Ohara

Pedagogical Application of Constructicography Workshop (PAC 2025) (University of Gothenburg) , 

2025.05

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Oral presentation (general), Benjamin Lyngfelt, Tiago Timponi Torrent, Lars Borin

How to Improve Generative AI with Frame Name Annotation in Prompts

Ran Iwamoto, Kyoko Ohara

The 6th International FrameNet Workshop (IFNW 2025) (Keio University, Japan) , 

2025.03

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Oral presentation (general), Yo Matsumoto, Kyoko Ohara, Yiting Chen

What are interactional frames doing in Constructions?

Kyoko Ohara

The 13th International Conference on Construction Grammar (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) , 

2024.08

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Oral presentation (general)

Extracting verb hierarchies from FrameNet

Ran Iwamoto, Kyoko Ohara

International FrameNet Workshop 2023 (HHU Düsseldorf) , 

2023.08

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Symposium, workshop panel (public)

The Role of FrameNet in Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar, and Natural Language Processing

Kyoko Ohara

16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC16) (HHU Düsseldorf) , 

2023.08

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Oral presentation (invited, special)

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In this talk I will discuss FrameNet (FN), an online language resource called FrameNet (FN), and similar language resources in other languages such as Spanish, Japanese, German, Swedish and Brazilian Portuguese. FN documents the meanings and usages of contemporary English words in terms of semantic frames, that is, background knowledge structures that speakers can access about various experiences associated with the words. I will focus on two aspects of FN: (1) its relations to the theories of Frame Semantics (e.g., Fillmore & Baker 2015) and Construction Grammar (e.g., Fillmore et al. 2012); and (2) its relevance to cognitive linguists in the age of deep learning.
After characterizing FN as a practical realization of Frame Semantics and Construction Grammar (e.g., Ruppenhoffer et al. 2016, Baker & Fillmore 2004), I will argue that the FN research and resource-building project has contributed extensively to advances in the two theories.
Next, I will show that FN has garnered attention in the field of natural language processing (NLP) (e.g., Gildea & Jurafsky 2002) and it will continue to gain further prominence for enhancing NLP technologies.
Finally, I will suggest that in the age of deep learning, collaboration between linguists and NLP researchers is both important and critical (cf. Bender 2020). Equally important and necessary is our continued qualitative description and analysis of linguistic data, since only linguists can develop hypotheses concerning speaker knowledge of language (cf. Fillmore 1992). Examining FrameNet data is a good place to start.


Can frames describe the meanings of grammatical constructions?

The 12th International Conference on Construction Grammar. (Charles University, Prague) , 

2023.05

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Oral presentation (general)

The Japanese FrameNet Constructicon and how to align constructions across typologically distinct languages

Kyoko Ohara

Lecture given in the PhD course “Constructicography: Advanced Topics in Construction Grammar.” (UiT The Artic University of Norway (Online)) , 

2023.02

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2023.04

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Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech

Frames, Frame Semantics, and Japanese FrameNet

Ohara, Kyoko

East Asian Linguistics Workshop, Stanford University (Online) , 

2022.10

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Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)

フレーム意味論・構文文法とフレームネット

小原 京子

日本認知言語学会第23回全国大会シンポジウム「フレーム意味論の新展開」, 

2022.09

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Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)

FrameNetからの動詞階層構造の抽出

岩本蘭、小原京子

言語処理学会第28回年次大会, 

2022.03

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Poster presentation, 言語処理学会

解釈述語、内容述語の主要部交替から見た日英語の文構造

小原京子, 長谷川葉子

Prosody and Grammar Festa 6 (オンライン) , 

2022.01

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Oral presentation (general), 国立国語研究所、神戸大学 人文学研究科

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述語の分類：内容述語・解釈述語を提案。
これらの間に見られる「主要部交替」に着目して、
解釈述語riskの意味を表す英語と日本語の文構造の比較。
日英語間には主要部交替の許容度に差がある。
日英語間の、述語の事象描写性の程度の違いによる。

Crowdsourcing frame disambiguation in Japanese FrameNet: what it says about annotation and frame assignment

Kyoko OHara

11th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG11), 

2021.08

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Oral presentation (general)

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This paper discusses the usefulness of crowdsourcing in linking Japanese FrameNet (JFN) and Kyoto University Case Frame (KCF), which differ in: type of frame knowledge (semantic frames vs. case frames); methodology of building (manual vs. automatic); and size (small vs. large). It proposes a method to crowdsource the assignment of a JFN semantic frame to KCF case frames. The method matches a KCF example sentence with a JFN annotated sentence, where both share the same meaning of a lemma. This paper argues that crowdsourcing frame disambiguation is effective in detecting multiword expressions (MWEs), missing frames and lexical units (LUs), and errors in frame assignment in Japanese FrameNet (JFN). It also proposes ways to alleviate the linguistic task of evaluating crowdsourced results, in deciding what kinds of lemmas to focus, where to find them, and what to do with them.

Interactional Frames in a Literary Work: Multiple Levels of Interaction

Kyoko Ohara, Miriam R. L. Petruck

17th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2021), 

2021.06

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Oral presentation (general)

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This paper addresses the interactional frame insofar as it mediates between author and reader in the opening of a “children’s” book, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s (1943) The Little Prince.

Interactional Frames and Language Resource Development

Kyoko Ohara, Miriam R. L. Petruck

17th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2021), 

2021.06

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Oral presentation (keynote)

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Motivated by Fillmore’s characterization of interactional frames (1982:117), the goal of this panel is to bring together theoretical linguists working in pragmatics with frame semanticists, creators of FrameNet-inspired lexica (Ruppenhofer et al., 2016, Boas 2009) and constructicons (Lyngfelt et al., 2018), as well as developers of real world applications. The panel will provide a forum to discuss the importance of the role of interactional frames in human language understanding as well as the challenges and consequences of representing Fillmore’s interactional frames in resources based on Frame Semantics and Construction Grammar.

集合知を用いた大規模意味的フレーム知識の構築

小原京子, 河原大輔、笹野遼平、関根聡

言語処理学会第27回年次大会, 

2021.03

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Poster presentation

Identifying and Aligning constructions in typologically-unrelated languages

Kyoko Ohara

Follow-up Session, Construction Annotation Workshop (Online) , 

2020.11

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Symposium, workshop panel (nominated), Alexander Ziem, Benjamin Lygfelt, Tiago Timpani Torrent

Frames, Pragmatic Functions, and Constructional Meaning: Using Frames-and-Constructions Analysis Toward Multilingual Constructicography

Kyoko Ohara

Construction Annotation Workshop (Online) , 

2020.10

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Symposium, workshop panel (nominated), Alexander Ziem, Benjamin Lygfelt, Tiago Timpani Torrent

Finding Corresponding Constructions in English and Japanese in a TED Talk Parallel Corpus using Frames-and-Constructions Analysis

Kyoko Ohara

LREC Workshop, International FrameNet Workshop 2020, 

2020.06

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Symposium, workshop panel (public)

日英対訳絵本のフレーム・構文分析と日英語構文の対応付け

小原京子, 大久保佳子

言語処理学会第26回年次大会, 

2020.03

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Poster presentation

Frames-and-constructions analyses of Japanese and English Bilingual Children’s Book

Ohara, Kyoko

15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC15) (Kwansei Gakuin Univeristy, Nishinomiya, Japan) , 

2019.08

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Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech

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Theme Session “Cross-theoretical Perspectives on Frame-based Lexical and Constructional Analyses: Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Studies.”