Bootstrapping an Italian VerbNet: data-driven analysis of verb alternations

Gianluca Lebani, Veronica Viola, Alessandro Lenci


Abstract
The goal of this paper is to propose a classification of the syntactic alternations admitted by the most frequent Italian verbs. The data-driven two-steps procedure exploited and the structure of the identified classes of alternations are presented in depth and discussed. Even if this classification has been developed with a practical application in mind, namely the semi-automatic building of a VerbNet-like lexicon for Italian verbs, partly following the methodology proposed in the context of the VerbNet project, its availability may have a positive impact on several related research topics and Natural Language Processing tasks
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L14-1447
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
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2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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1127–1134
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/541_Paper.pdf
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Gianluca Lebani, Veronica Viola, and Alessandro Lenci. 2014. Bootstrapping an Italian VerbNet: data-driven analysis of verb alternations. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 1127–1134, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Bootstrapping an Italian VerbNet: data-driven analysis of verb alternations (Lebani et al., LREC 2014)
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