Syntagma Lexical Database
This work provides a lexical database for Italian language processing, but it is incremental as it builds on existing database and tagging methods without introducing new computational techniques.
The paper presents the structure of Syntagma's Lexical Database for Italian, detailing four core tables (Forms, Lemma, Meanings, Valency) that handle word inflections, grammatical features, semantic data, and argument structures, with an extended version linking to external semantic resources.
This paper discusses the structure of Syntagma's Lexical Database (focused on Italian). The basic database consists in four tables. Table Forms contains word inflections, used by the POS-tagger for the identification of input-words. Forms is related to Lemma. Table Lemma stores all kinds of grammatical features of words, word-level semantic data and restrictions. In the table Meanings meaning-related data are stored: definition, examples, domain, and semantic information. Table Valency contains the argument structure of each meaning, with syntactic and semantic features for each argument. The extended version of SLD contains the links to Syntagma's Semantic Net and to the WordNet synsets of other languages.