  In this paper we present an ongoing research investigating the possibility
and potential of integrating frame semantics, particularly FrameNet, in the
Grammatical Framework (GF) application grammar development. An important
component of GF is its Resource Grammar Library (RGL) that encapsulates the
low-level linguistic knowledge about morphology and syntax of currently more
than 20 languages facilitating rapid development of multilingual applications.
In the ideal case, porting a GF application grammar to a new language would
only require introducing the domain lexicon - translation equivalents that are
interlinked via common abstract terms. While it is possible for a highly
restricted CNL, developing and porting a less restricted CNL requires above
average linguistic knowledge about the particular language, and above average
GF experience. Specifying a lexicon is mostly straightforward in the case of
nouns (incl. multi-word units), however, verbs are the most complex category
(in terms of both inflectional paradigms and argument structure), and adding
them to a GF application grammar is not a straightforward task. In this paper
we are focusing on verbs, investigating the possibility of creating a
multilingual FrameNet-based GF library. We propose an extension to the current
RGL, allowing GF application developers to define clauses on the semantic
level, thus leaving the language-specific syntactic mapping to this extension.
We demonstrate our approach by reengineering the MOLTO Phrasebook application
grammar.
