Representing Specialized Events with FrameBase

Abstract

Abstract. Events of various sorts make up an important subset of the entities rel-evant not only in knowledge representation but also in natural language processing and numerous other fields and tasks. How to represent these in a homogeneous yet expressive, extensive, and extensible way remains a challenge. In this paper, we propose an approach based on FrameBase, a broad RDFS-based schema consisting of frames and roles. The concept of a frame, which is a very general one, can be considered as subsuming existing definitions of events. This ensures a broad coverage and a uniform representation of various kinds of events, thus bearing the potential to serve as a unified event model. We show how FrameBase can represent events from several different sources and domains. These include events from a specific taxonomy related to organized crime, events captured using schema.org, and events from DBpedia. 1