@article{giovannetti-etal-2026-extending,
    title = "Extending the Semantic Layer of the {C}omp{L}-it {I}talian Lexicon: Traits, Semantic Types, and Definitions",
    author = "Giovannetti, Emiliano  and
      Bellandi, Andrea  and
      Marchi, Simone  and
      Papini, Mafalda",
    editor = "Piperidis, Stelios  and
      Bel, N{\'u}ria  and
      van den Heuvel, Henk  and
      Ide, Nancy  and
      Krek, Simon  and
      Toral, Antonio",
    journal = "International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation",
    volume = "main",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-lrec/2026.lrec-main.624/",
    pages = "7857--7866",
    abstract = "The growing impact of Large Language Models has highlighted the need for explicit, interpretable linguistic knowledge. Lexical resources respond to this need by offering structured representations that complement and constrain the implicit semantics of neural models. This paper presents an extension of CompL-it, currently the most comprehensive open computational lexicon of Italian. Building on the semantic layer inherited from LexicO{---}itself derived from the PAROLE-SIMPLE-CLIPS resource{---}the work enriches CompL-it with semantic traits and references to semantic types. Moreover, an experiment was conducted to generate missing definitions through an automatic process supported by LLMs. The resulting resource thus combines human-curated and machine-extended knowledge, ensuring both linguistic precision and scalability. This enriched semantic layer enhances CompL-it{'}s interoperability within the Linguistic Linked Data framework and strengthens its usability for NLP tasks such as word sense disambiguation, semantic role labelling, and knowledge grounding."
}