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CLARIN-IT: An Overview on the Italian CLARIN Consortium After Six Years of Activity
No full textThis paper offers an overview of the Italian CLARIN consortium after six years since its establishment.
The members, the centres and the repositories and the most important collections are described. Lastly,
in order to showcase the visibility and the accessiblity of Language Resources provided by CLARIN-IT
from a user-perspective, we show how Italian resources are findable within CLARIN ERIC
Lexicography informs lexical semantics: the SIMPLE experience
No full textLexicography is often considered orthogonal to theoretical linguistics. In this paper, we show that this is a highly misguided view. As in other sciences, a careful and large-scale empirical investigation is a necessary step
for testing, improving and expanding a theoretical framework. We present results from the development of the Italian semantic lexicon in the framework of the Simple project, which implements major aspects of Generative
Lexicon theory. This paper focuses on the semantic properties of abstract nouns as they are conceptually more dicult to describe. For this reason, they are a good testbed for any semantic theory. The methodology - which
has been developed to satisfy the requirements of building large lexicons - is more than a simple interface or a lexicographer auxiliary tool. Rather, it reveals how a real implementation greatly contributes to the underlying
theory
Harmonization and merging of two Italian dependency treebanks
Full text linkThe paper describes the methodology which is currently being defined for the construction of a "Merged Italian Dependency Treebank'' (MIDT) starting from already existing resources. In particular, it reports the results of a case study carried out on two available dependency treebanks, i.e. TUT and ISST--TANL. The issues raised during the comparison of the annotation schemes underlying the two treebanks are discussed and investigated with a particular emphasis on the definition of a set of linguistic categories to be used as a "bridge'' between the specific schemes. As an encoding format, the CoNLL de facto standard is used
Al Qamus al Muhit, a Medieval Arabic Lexicon in LMF
No full textThis paper describes the conversion into LMF, a standard lexicographic digital format of ’al-qamus al-muh it., a Medieval Arabic lexicon. The lexicon is first described, then all the steps required for the conversion are illustrated. The work is will produce a useful lexicographic resource for Arabic NLP, but is also interesting per se, to study the implications of adapting the LMF model to the Arabic language. Some reflections are offered as to the status of roots with respect to previously suggested representations. In particular, roots
are, in our opinion are to be not treated as lexical entries, but modeled as lexical metadata for classifying and identifying lexical entries. In this manner, each root connects all entries that are derived from it
Presenting a System of Human-Machine Interaction for Performing Map Tasks
No full textA system for human machine interaction is presented, that offers second language learners of Italian the possibility of assessing their competence by performing a map task, namely by guiding the a virtual follower through a map with written instructions in natural language. The underlying natural language processing algorithm is described, and the map authoring infrastructure is presented
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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