Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

150the original version of case grammar (Fillmore 1968) to describe the actantial structure ofall terms belonging to the same domain (the term actant as used in DiCoInfo is inspired byTesnière‘s theory to which we referred in section 3.1.1). In contrast, semantic labels inFrameNet are created specifically for each frame (although some labels may be recurrentthroughout frames). A relatively small set of labels that are assumed to apply to a largenumber of lexical units within the field of computing is used by lexicographers. The aim isto capture, within the field of computing, regular phenomena, such as the following(Pimentel et al. forthcoming):Alternations (such as the causative-inchoative alternation):Patient boots (e.g. the system boots)Agent boots Patient (e.g. the user boots the system)Other alternations (such as the Agent-Instrument alternation):Instrument prints Patient (e.g. the printer prints the file)Agent prints Patient with Instrument (e.g. the user prints the file on a laserprinter)Semantically-related lexical units with similar argument structures:Agent programs Patient in Material (e.g. the programmer programmed thisapplication in C++)Agent writes Patient in Material (e.g. the programmer wrote this widget withJava)Programming of Patient in Material by Agent (e.g. programming in Java)Programmer of Patient in Material (e.g. a C++ programmer)Language used by Agent to act on Patient (e.g. Java is used to write programs)Another difference between DiCoInfo and FrameNet lies in the characteristics of theobligatory and optional participants in the meaning of terms. FrameNet‘s core FEs areobligatory in the frame but may not be profiled in all LUs that evoke the frame, whereas theactants in DiCoInfo are always profiled in the meaning of the terms. Also, FrameNet‘s noncoreFEs are subdivided into extra-thematic and peripheral, whereas DiCoInfo‘scircumstants are not.