Since the early 2000s, Berkeley FrameNet has been expanded to other languages, giving rise to diverse frame-building initiatives. Moreover, several groups conduct research using Berkeley FrameNet frames but would like to add more frames to specific domains not yet covered in FN 1.7. Although the Global FrameNet community is highly active, creating new frames and adding them to the existing network requires putting a lot of effort in building a annotation software and database structure.

Given this context, FrameNet Brasil and the Distributed Little Red Hen Lab have partnered to build Lutma: a wizard-like tool for creating new frames in constrained tutored fashion. The tool is developed as an app that can be used by anyone, regardless of them having a background in FrameNet or not. Tutorials guide the users throughout the whole process.

And the best is that all the frames created in Lutma will be publicly available to everyone.