LICO: A Lexicon of Italian Connectives

English. This paper presents the first release of LICO, a Lexicon for Italian COnnectives. LICO includes about 170 discourse connectives used in Italian, together with their orthographical variants, part of speech(es), semantic relation(s) (according to the Penn Discourse Treebank relation catalogue), and a number of usage examples. Italiano. Questo contributo presenta la prima versione di LICO, un lessico di connettivi per l’italiano. LICO comprende circa 170 connettivi del discorso usati in italiano, di cui abbiamo raccolto varianti ortografiche, le parti del discorso, le relazioni semantiche (ricavate dal catalogo del Penn Discourse Treebank) espresse dal connettivo, e alcuni esempi d’uso.

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