Senso comune, an open knowledge base for Italian
Guido Vetere, Alessandro Oltramari, Isabella Chiari, Elisabetta Ježek, Laure Vieu, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto · Cineca Institutional Research Information System (Tor Vergata University) · 2011
Senso Comune is an open-knowledge base for the Italian language, available through a Web-based collaborative platform, whose construction is in progress. The resource integrates dictionary data coming from both users and legacy resources with an ontological backbone, which provides foundations for a formal characterization of lexical semantic structures (frames). A nucleus of basic Italian lemmas, which have been semantically analyzed and classified, is available for both online access and downloading. A restricted community of contributors is currently working on increasing the lexical coverage of the resource. Research is underway to extend the knowledge base model to encompass verbal frames.