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Evaluating lexical resources using SENSEVAL

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2003

NICOLETTA CALZOLARI
Affiliation:
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale-CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, 56100 Pisa, Italy e-mail: glottolo@ilc.cnr.it, claudia.soria@ilc.cnr.it, francesca.bertagna@ilc.cnr.it
CLAUDIA SORIA
Affiliation:
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale-CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, 56100 Pisa, Italy e-mail: glottolo@ilc.cnr.it, claudia.soria@ilc.cnr.it, francesca.bertagna@ilc.cnr.it
FRANCESCA BERTAGNA
Affiliation:
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale-CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, 56100 Pisa, Italy e-mail: glottolo@ilc.cnr.it, claudia.soria@ilc.cnr.it, francesca.bertagna@ilc.cnr.it
FRANCESCO BARSOTTI
Affiliation:
Università di Pisa, Via S. Maria 36, 56100 Pisa, Italy e-mail: francesco.barsotti@ilc.cnr.it

Abstract

The aim of our paper is twofold: to introduce some general reflections on the task of lexical semantic annotation and the adequacy of existing lexical-semantic reference resources, while giving an overall description of the Italian lexical sample task for the SENSEVAL-2 experiment. We suggest how the SENSEVAL exercise (and comparison between the two editions of the experiment) can be employed to evaluate the lexical reference resources used for annotation. We conclude with a few general remarks on the gap between the lexicon, a partially decontextualised object, and the corpus, where context plays a significant role.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2002 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

We would like to thank Adam Kilgarriff for all his help, two anonymous referees for their comments and also Paolo Allegrini and Roldano Cattoni for their assistance.