Towards a frame based lexicon: The case of RISK – Charles J. Fillmore and B. T. Atkins (1992)
Introduces the notion of frame semantics. A word’s meaning can be understood only with reference to a structured background experience, beliefs, or practices, constituting a conceptual prerequisite for understanding the meaning. The meaning of a word can only be understood by first understanding background frames that motivate the concept that the word encodes. Words are not related directly but by their links to common background frames. Framenet attempts to document the entire set of frames a given lexical item can relate to and how the frame elements are syntactically realized. Seems to differ from the notion of scripts in that it is non episodic.