Combining Conceptual and Referential Annotation to Study Variation in Framing

We introduce an annotation tool whose purpose is to gain insights into variation of framing by combining FrameNet annotation withreferential annotation. English FrameNet enables researchers to study variation in framing at the conceptual level as well through itspackaging in language. We enrich FrameNet annotations in two ways. First, we introduce the referential aspect. Secondly, we annotateon complete texts to encode connections between mentions. As a result, we can analyze the variation of framing for one particularevent across multiple mentions and (cross-lingual) documents. We can examine how an event is framed over time and how core frameelements are expressed throughout a complete text. The data model starts with a representation of an event type. Each event type hasmany incidents linked to it, and each incident has several reference texts describing it as well as structured data about the incident.The user can apply two types of annotations: 1) mappings from expressions to frames and frame elements, 2) reference relations frommentions to events and participants of the structured data.