From Glosses to Qualia: Qualia Extraction from Senso Comune

This paper describes a case study on methods for automatically extracting qualia relations from dictionary glosses in Italian, namely the Senso Comune De Mauro Dictionary (SCDM). The qualia extraction has been addressed by means of a pattern-based approach and lexical match with an Italian generative lexicon based language resource, PAROLE-SIMPLECLIPS (PSC). The evaluation of the extraction approaches has been performed with respect to a manually built Gold Standard containig 174 different qualia. The results obtained are encouraging (P = 0.84, R = 0.08 for the pattern extraction approach and P=0.73 and R=0.16 for the merging of pattern extraction and lexical match) and suggest that the information contained in the SCDM glosses is complementary with that in PSC.

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