ItCon: a Machine-Readable Constructicon for Italian

ItCon aims to be a Machine-Readable Constructicon.

It is composed of several elements that interact with each other to allow consulting and updating the constructicon according to multiple use cases. In particular:

  • a database of constructions
  • a graph that organizes the constructions into a network
  • a corpus of incrementally annotated examples
  • an interface for querying and visualization

To make this possible, it is necessary to precisely define the construction object, which represents the core of the resource.

Where to start

  • Guide — how to formalize a construction for ItCon: the .yaml file, the CoNLL-C and CoNLL-Uc formats, and the step-by-step annotation workflow.
  • Tools — the adoc-tools pipeline that turns a spreadsheet export into YAML/CoNLL-C construction files, parses and extracts catena skeletons from example sentences, and converts CoNLL-C into Grew search patterns.
  • Publications — papers describing ItCon and its formalization.

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ItCon is developed by the LaboratorioSperimentale group. Site source in docs/ of the adoc repository.

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