LINGUIST List 22.4021 Fri Oct 14 2011 FYI: LexIt: A Resource on Argument Structure in Italian Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Alessandro Lenci , LexIt: A Resource on Argument Structure in Italian Message 1: LexIt: A Resource on Argument Structure in Italian Date: 13-Oct-2011 From: Alessandro Lenci <alessandro.lenciling.unipi.it> Subject: LexIt: A Resource on Argument Structure in Italian E-mail this message to a friend 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.lenciling.unipi.it web: http://www.humnet.unipi.it/linguistica/Docenti/Lenci/index.htm Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 14-Oct-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.