22.4021, FYI: LexIt: A Resource on Argument Structure in Italian

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Date: 13-Oct-2011
From: Alessandro Lenci [alessandro.lenci at ling.unipi.it]
Subject: LexIt: A Resource on Argument Structure in Italian


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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:59:48
From: Alessandro Lenci [alessandro.lenci at ling.unipi.it]
Subject: LexIt: A Resource on Argument Structure in Italian

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The Laboratory for Computational Linguistics of the University of Pisa, 
Dept. of Linguistics, is pleased to announce LexIt, a corpus-based 
computational resource to investigate the argument structure of Italian 
predicates.

LexIt data can be freely explored at: http://sesia.humnet.unipi.it/lexit

LexIt contains a vast array of information automatically extracted from 
two large Italian corpora with state-of-the-art computational linguistic 
methods:

- syntactic slots (subject, complements, modifiers, etc.) and  
syntactic subcategorization frames represented as combinations of 
syntactic slots;

- lexical sets containing the fillers realizing the syntactic slots of each 
subcategorization frame;

- semantic classes to describe the selectional preferences of the 
syntactic slots.

The LexIt interface allows the user to choose the part-of-speech of the 
target lemma and the source corpus, and to explore the database 
through five navigation paths:

- by target lemma
- by syntactic frame
- by argument slot
- by lexical filler and argument slot
- by semantic class

Currently, LexIt contains distributional profiles for Italian verbs and 
nouns. Adjectives will be added soon. Thanks to the statistical data 
available in LexIt, it is possible to analyze the combinatorial properties 
of lexical items and the argument structure of predicates, by identifying 
their most salient and prototypical distributional features.

LexIt Project Contact:

Alessandro Lenci
Dipartimento di Linguistica ''T. Bolelli''
Universita' di Pisa
Via Santa Maria 36
56126 PISA
Italia

email: alessandro.lenci at ling.unipi.it
web: http://www.humnet.unipi.it/linguistica/Docenti/Lenci/index.htm 



Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics





 





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