Cognitive linguistics meets the computational linguistics: Project news on FrameNet Brasil

In this paper we will report the proceedings for building a new lexical resource for the Portuguese of Brazil, [URL:http://www.framenetbr.ufjf.br], based on semantic frames and connected to the Berkeley FrameNet, http://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu, project, at this point, implemented for nine languages in the world. To this end, we will introduce briefly the theoretical design of frame semantics, the FrameNet project as originally conceived and the two major developments of the Brazil FrameNet project: namely, the 2014 WORLD CUP, a tri-lingual electronic dictionary, and our attempt to build a Constructicon for Brazilian Portuguese, the subproject Frames and Constructions. In addition to offering a partial description of the lexicon of Portuguese (thematically focused on the fields of the World Cup and Tourism), the project also describes the family of General-Purpose Constructions and Indefinite Quantity Constructions. Adapted from the source document