synsem module

Dear all,

  I am working through the synsem module, see my updates on the GIT 
repository.

I do not have major changes of this module other than the following two:

1) I have changed a number of definitions to make them clearer, please 
check and let me know if the definitions are fine.

2) For the sake of symmetry, I propose to add a class "SemanticFrame" as 
a counterpart to Frame, which represents a syntactic frame, essentially 
capturing the valence or subcat behaviour of a given lexical entry. This 
SemanticFrame would essentially be a subclass of LexicalSense, and would 
leave the other parts of the model essentially untouched. I feel that 
having this symmetry (syntactic and semantic side) makes the model more 
elegant and clearer. Some people will be looking for something like 
this. Essentially, a SemanticFrame would represent a gestalt-like 
conceptual construction that represents the meaning of a lexical entry.

I have chosen the following definition for the "SemanticFrame" class: A 
Semantic Frame is a coherent structure of related concepts that are 
related such that without knowledge of all of them, one does not have 
complete knowledge of any one; they are in that sense types of gestalt. 
The coherent structure is represented by one or more predicates from a 
given ontology.

Please check the ontology, the examples etc. and help me to debug the 
ontology, description and examples.

Best regards,

Philipp.

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