In Frame

Advances in Frame Semantics

This volume presents some of the latest research in Frame Semantics, including work in computational lexicography as developed within the FrameNet project. Using varied material from English, Italian, and Japanese, the contributions collectively expand the theoretical, conceptual, and computational apparatus of Frame semantics, by studying a range of issues concerning not only lexical structure, associated with cognitive frames, but also the less studied interactional frames and their relationship to grammatical organization. While addressing a number of linguistic phenomena, such as verbs of visual perception, metaphoric language, subordinating connectives, paraphrasing, honorifics, certain pragmatic particles, basic speech acts, and the semantic structuring of legal texts, the analyses also highlight the broader question of integrating frames within rich lexical and grammatical descriptions, whether in the context of lexicon-building resources, models for knowledge representation, experimental modeling of language acquisition and processing, conceptual metaphor theory, paraphrase research, or the communicative grounding of linguistic structure. Originally published in Constructions and Frames Vol. 3:1 (2011) and Vol. 2:2 (2010).

Concepts in Frame Design

Correction of Line Interleaving Displacement in Frame Captured Aerial Video Imagery

"Scientists with the USDA Forest Service are currently assessing the usefulness of aerial video imagery for various purposes including midcycle inventory updates. The potential of video image data for these purposes may be compromised by scan line interleaving displacement problems. Interleaving displacement problems cause features in video raster datasets to have jagged edges due to pixel offset on adjacent scan lines. Researchers at the Southern Forest Experiment Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis Unit (SO-FIA), have developed a computer program, "Pixshift," written in C, that shifts alternate raster lines (even or odd) to the right or left by a user-specified integer value. The program allows a maximum of four channels to be shifted simultaneously. Improvements in band-to-band registration and rectification to a map base have been observed, and classification improvements are expected."