- T. Mitamura, Lorraine S. Levin. 1989. The hierarchical organization of predicate frames for interpretive mapping in natural language processing. Abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to develop a methodology for constructing a hierarchical organization of predicate frames for interpretive mapping in knowledge-based machine translation. Interpretive mapping refers to the mapping between predicate conceptual structures and syntactic structures, and it involves two kinds of processes. One is a mapping between grammatical functions, such as subject and object, and semantic roles in the conceptual structures, such as agent and theme. The second is a mapping between words, such as naguru 'hit' and lexical conceptual frames, such as *HIT. 
