PREMOVE in LiLa: Integrating Latin Preverbed Motion Verbs with WordNet and VerbNet

Andrea Farina, Marco Passarotti, Francesco Mambrini, Matteo Pellegrini, Eleonora Litta, Giovanni Moretti


Abstract
PREMOVE is a diachronic dataset of Ancient Greek and Latin PREverbed MOtion VErbs, providing manually curated morphological, syntactic, and semantic annotations for almost three thousand verbal occurrences. This paper presents the integration of PREMOVE into the LiLa Knowledge Base of Latin, linking its semantic annotations to WordNet (WN) and VerbNet (VN). We describe the RDF conversion using OntoLex-Lemon and FrAC, enabling explicit modelling of token-level attestations and dataset-level provenance. The resulting linked resource achieves full FAIR compliance and supports complex SPARQL queries, allowing users to explore motion semantics across lexical, textual, and semantic layers. Example SPARQL queries demonstrate how researchers can retrieve attested forms for specific WN synsets or VN classes, supporting reproducible linguistic research and cross-resource exploration of motion semantics in ancient languages.
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2026.lrec-main.294
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Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
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2026
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Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Stelios Piperidis, Núria Bel, Henk van den Heuvel, Nancy Ide, Simon Krek, Antonio Toral
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LREC
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ELRA Language Resource Association
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Andrea Farina, Marco Passarotti, Francesco Mambrini, Matteo Pellegrini, Eleonora Litta, and Giovanni Moretti. 2026. PREMOVE in LiLa: Integrating Latin Preverbed Motion Verbs with WordNet and VerbNet. International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, main:3672–3683.
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PREMOVE in LiLa: Integrating Latin Preverbed Motion Verbs with WordNet and VerbNet (Farina et al., LREC 2026)
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