In this work we introduce TimeFrame, an online platform to easily query and visualize events and participants extracted from document collections in Italian following a frame-based approach. The system allows users to select one or more events (frames) or event categories and to display their occurrences on a timeline. Different query types, from coarse to fine-grained, are available through the interface, enabling a time-bound analysis of large historical corpora. We present three use cases based on the full archive of news published in 1948 by the newspaper “Corriere della Sera”. We show that different crucial events can be explored, providing interesting insights into the narratives around such events, the main participants and their points of view.

This paper introduces EventNet-ITA, a large, multi-domain corpus annotated full-text with event frames for Italian. Moreover, we present and thoroughly evaluate an efficient multi-label sequence labeling approach for Frame Parsing. Covering a wide range of individual, social and historical phenomena, with more than 53,000 annotated sentences and over 200 modeled frames, EventNet-ITA constitutes the first systematic attempt to provide the Italian language with a publicly available resource for Frame Parsing of events, useful for a broad spectrum of research and application tasks. Our approach achieves a promising 0.9 strict F1-score for frame classification and 0.72 for frame element classification, on top of minimizing computational requirements. The annotated corpus and the frame parsing model are released under open license.

This work introduces a novel, extensive annotated corpus for multi-label legislative text classification in Italian, based on legal acts from the Gazzetta Ufficiale, the official source of legislative information of the Italian state. The annotated dataset, which we released to the community, comprises over 363,000 titles of legislative acts, spanning over 30 years from 1988 until 2022. Moreover, we evaluate four models for text classification on the dataset, demonstrating how using only the acts’ titles can achieve top-level classification performance, with a micro F1-score of 0.87. Also, our analysis shows how Italian domain-adapted legal models do not outperform general-purpose models on the task. Models’ performance can be checked by users via a demonstrator system provided in support of this work.