This is the README file for Release 1.3 of the FrameNet data.

This data release is copyright 2004-2006, 

   International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)
   1947 Center St.
   Berkeley, California 94704, 
   U.S.A. 

and is made available only under license from ICSI.  Unauthorized use
is prohibited.  Please see the FrameNet web site
(http://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu) for information about licensing.

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Thank you for your interest in the FrameNet data.  We hope that you
will find it useful.  If you do use FrameNet data in your research,
teaching, or in a useful application, we would very much like to hear
about it; it’s important for us to be able to demonstrate that our
work is helpful to others.

Where to start:

You may not need to download and unpack all of the distribution!

Please read (or reread) "Exhibit A" at the end of the license
agreement which you accepted (included as the file ExhibitA.html in
this directory), which details the files in the download and what they
contain.

Then you should download and unpack the file docsDiff.tgz and start by
reading GeneralReleaseNotes.pdf, This should give you an idea of which
files are where and which ones you will need for your purposes.

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Acknowledgments 

Data for the the first phase of the FrameNet project, funded by
National Science Foundation grant IRI #9618838 (1997-2000) , “Tools
for Lexicon Building” was released in the spring of 2001.  The second
phase, funded by NSF grant ITR/HCI #0086132 for the period September
2000 -August 2003, entitled “FrameNet++ : An On-Line Lexical Semantic
Resource and its Application to Speech and Language Technology” , was
completed and the data released in January, 2004.  We have recently
received an NSF grant IIS 2005 "Rapid Development of a Frame Semantic
Lexicon" to build a new and hopefully more efficient system of
defining frames and lexical units and selecting sentences for
annotation, in collaboration with Adam Pease of Lexical Computing,
Ltd.  We are grateful to NSF for their long-term support and for
several REU grants which allowed us to hire several students full-time
during the summer, and for a supplemental grant which enabled us to do
a better job of preparing Release 1.1.

Between November, 2003 and the spring of 2005, we were also supported
by a grant from DARPA, FA8750-04-2-0026, “Steps toward the Alignment
of Complementary Lexical Resources and Knowledge databases” for
studying the relationship between FrameNet and resources such as
WordNet.  Since the fall of 2004, we have also received support from
the ARDA AQUAINT program, under a subcontract with U Texas at Dallas
to annotate continuous texts with FrameNet LUs and FEs, in an effort
to enhance question answering systems.  We are grateful to DARPA and
ARDA for enabling the project to continue and to explore these new
directions.