Frame Information Transfer from English to Italian

We describe an automatic projection algorithm for transferring frame-semantic information from English to Italian texts, as a first sep towards the creation of Italian FrameNet. Projection of frame semantic information from English to other European languages has already been investigated for German, Swedish and French. With our work, we point out typical features of the Italian language as regards frame-semantic annotation, in particular we describe peculiarities of Italian that at the moment make the projection task more difficult than in the above-mentioned examples. Besides, we created a gold standard with 987 manually annotated sentences to evaluate the algorithm.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Sara Tonelli, Emanuele Pianta
• Keywords: Automatic Projection Algorithm, Education, Frame Semantic Information, Italian Texts, LREC 2008