Anita Alicante


2012

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A treebank-based study on the influence of Italian word order on parsing performance
Anita Alicante | Cristina Bosco | Anna Corazza | Alberto Lavelli
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the issues raised by Morphologically Rich Languages, and more precisely to investigate, in a cross-paradigm perspective, the influence of the constituent order on the data-driven parsing of one of such languages(i.e. Italian). It shows therefore new evidence from experiments on Italian, a language characterized by a rich verbal inflection, which leads to a widespread diffusion of the pro―drop phenomenon and to a relatively free word order. The experiments are performed by using state-of-the-art data-driven parsers (i.e. MaltParser and Berkeley parser) and are based on an Italian treebank available in formats that vary according to two dimensions, i.e. the paradigm of representation (dependency vs. constituency) and the level of detail of linguistic information.

2011

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Barrier Features for Classification of Semantic Relations
Anita Alicante | Anna Corazza
Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2011