@inproceedings{L16-1419,
 abstract = {This paper proposes a new method for Italian verb classification -and a preliminary example of resulting classes- inspired by Levin (1993) and VerbNet (Kipper-Schuler, 2005), yet partially independent from these resources; we achieved such a result by integrating Levin and VerbNet's models of classification with other theoretic frameworks and resources. The classification is rooted in the constructionist framework (Goldberg, 1995; 2006) and is distribution-based. It is also semantically characterized by a link to FrameNet'ssemanticframesto represent the event expressed by a class. However, the new Italian classes maintain the hierarchic ``tree'' structure and monotonic nature of VerbNet's classes, and, where possible, the original names (e.g.: Verbs of Killing, Verbs of Putting, etc.). We therefore propose here a taxonomy compatible with VerbNet but at the same time adapted to Italian syntax and semantics. It also addresses a number of problems intrinsic to the original classifications, such as the role of argument alternations, here regarded simply as epiphenomena, consistently with the constructionist approach.
},
 address = {Portorož, Slovenia},
 author = {Lucia Busso and Alessandro Lenci},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016)},
 month = {May},
 pages = {2633--2642},
 publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
 title = {Italian VerbNet: A Construction-based Approach to Italian Verb Classification},
 url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/L16-1419},
 year = {2016}
}