Constraining constructions with WordNet: pros and cons for the semantic annotation of fillers in the Italian Constructicon

The paper discusses the role of WordNet-based semantic classification in the formalization of constructions, and more specifically in the semantic annotation of schematic fillers, in the Italian Constructicon. We outline how the Italian Constructicon project uses Open Multilingual WordNet topics to represent semantic features and constraints of constructions.

Annotating Constructions with UD: the experience of the Italian Constructicon

The paper descirbes a first attempt of linking the Italian constructicon to UD resources

Did somebody say "Gest-IT"? A pilot exploration of multimodal data management

The paper presents a pilot exploration of the construction, management and analysis of a multimodal corpus. Through a three-layer annotation that provides orthographic, prosodic, and gestural transcriptions, the Gest-IT resource allows to investigate the variation of gesture-making patterns in conversations between sighted people and people with visual impairment. After discussing the transcription methods and technical procedures employed in our study, we propose a unified CoNLL-U corpus and indicate our future steps