A New Annotation Scheme for the Semantics of Taste

FrameNet serves as a comprehensive lexical database intended to represent contemporary language usage. However, it faces challenges in accurately representing specialized domains. Among these domains, FrameNet presents difficulties in capturing the specific semantics of human senses. Senses such as smell and taste are in fact included in more general frames or inadequately represented. Building on a previous resource proposing a new framework for olfactory events, we propose a similar annotation scheme for gustatory references in English, enlightening the potential of frames to effectively capture sensory semantics. Having a comprehensive framework to deal with the annotation of this kind of references in textual data is especially important to develop systems for the automatic extraction of sensory information. Moreover, our approach incorporates words from specific historical periods, thereby enriching the framework’s utility for studying language in a diachronic perspective. In this...