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Describing Verb Semantics in a Type Hierarchy

Disambiguation of Italian verbs

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Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases

Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology ((TLTB,volume 6))

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This contribution presents aspects of ongoing research on the semantic representation of the Italian verb vocabulary which aims to build lexical resources for linguistic research and NLP.

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Stein, A. (1999). Describing Verb Semantics in a Type Hierarchy. In: Saint-Dizier, P. (eds) Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2746-4_4

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