italian-verbs-dict

=================================================================== Morph-it! A free morphological lexicon for the Italian Language =================================================================== version 0.4.8 February 23 2009 ******************************************************************* THIS README IS NOT REALLY UP TO DATE A NEW VERSION OF THIS README FILE WILL BE RELEASED (HOPEFULLY) SOON (BUT I WOULDN'T COUNT ON THAT...) ******************************************************************* Copyright (c) 2004-2009 Marco Baroni (marco.baroni@unitn.it) Eros Zanchetta (eros@sslmit.unibo.it) http://sslmit.unibo.it/morphit Morph-it! is a free (as in free speech and in free beer) morphological resource for the Italian language. Morph-it! is a lexicon of inflected forms with their lemma and morphological features. For example: gattini gattino NOUN-M:p andarono andare VER:ind+past+3+p fastidiosetto fastidioso ADJ:dim+m+s As of version 0.4.7 the list contains 504,906 entries and 34,968 lemmas. Morph-it! can be used as a data source for an Italian lemmatizer / morphological analyzer / morphological generator. As example applications, on the Morph-it! site you can download the lexicon compiled for the SFST [1] and Finite State Utilities [2] packages. The data for Morph-it! were prepared by Marco Baroni and Eros Zanchetta using a mixture of corpus-based methods, regular-expression-based rules and manual checking. We are currently writing a paper that describes the procedure we used to build the resource. Morph-it! is still under development and there may still be gaps, unlikely forms, etc. We will be very grateful if you let us know about missing forms, problems, and ideas/resources that can help us expanding or cleaning the list (sslmitdevonline@sslmit.unibo.it). Notice in particular that, since we extracted data from an Italian newspaper corpus (the la Repubblica corpus, also accessible from our site), we have many gaps in basic, every-day vocabulary. Also, the current version does not distinguish between coordinative and subordinative conjunctions. We plan to do this in the near future. More in general, we are not fully satisfied with our current features for function words, and we plan to revise them. A more ambitious plan we would like to pursue is the identification of derivational structure and derivationally related lemmas. Then, we will add full semantic representations. Then, we will take over the world and reign supreme for the next 100 years. The remainder of this document contains a commented list of the morphological features used in the lexicon, licensing information and aknowledgments. FEATURES ======== We distinguish between derivational features, that pertain to the lemma, and inflectional features, that pertain to the wordform. Derivational and inflectional features are separated by a colon. The derivational features are in upper case and they are dash-delimited. The inflectional features are in lower case and they are plus-sign-delimited. For example, we represent gender as a derivational feature of nouns (we take "cameriere" and "cameriera" to belong to different lemmas), whereas we treat number as an inflectional feature of nouns. Thus, gender and number are represented as in the following examples: cameriere cameriera NOUN-F:p cameriera cameriera NOUN-F:s camerieri cameriere NOUN-M:p cameriere cameriere NOUN-M:s For adjectives, gender is considered an inflectional feature. Thus, gender is represented differently in adjectives and nouns: azzurre azzurra NOUN-F:p azzurra azzurra NOUN-F:s azzurri azzurro NOUN-M:p azzurro azzurro NOUN-M:s azzurra azzurro ADJ:pos+f+s azzurri azzurro ADJ:pos+m+p azzurro azzurro ADJ:pos+m+s azzurre azzurro ADJ:pos+f+p Changes that are purely orthographical/phonological but do not affect morphology/syntax/meaning are not reflected in the features. For example, the following variants of "cento" share the same lemma and the same features: cent' cento DET-NUM-CARD cento cento DET-NUM-CARD We now present the full list of features we used, organized by major syntactic categories. ABL Abbreviated locutions, such as "a.C.", "ecc." and "i.e." ADJ Adjectives, with the following inflectional features: pos/comp/sup Thas is: positive, comparative, superlative. Although these are not true inflectional features, given their high productivity we decided to represent them as properties of inflected forms. f/m That is: feminine, masculine. s/p Thas is: singular, plural. ADV Adverbs. ART Articles, with gender as a derivational feature (F/M) and number as an inflectional feature (s/p). ARTPRE Preposition+article compounds ("col", "della", "nei"...), with gender as a derivational feature (F/M) and number as an inflectional feature (s/p). ASP Aspectuals ("stare" in "stare per"). Same inflectional features as VER (see below). AUX Auxiliaries ("essere", "avere", "venire"). Same inflectional features as VER (see below). CAU Causatives ("fare" in "far sapere"). Same inflectional features as VER (see below). CE Clitic "ce" as in "ce l'ho fatta". CI Clitic "ci" as in "ci prova". CON Conjunctions. DET-DEMO Demonstrative determiners (such as "questa" in "questa sera"), with inflectional gender (f/s) and number (s/p) features. DET-INDEF Indefinite determiners (such as "molti" in "molti amici") with inflectional gender (f/s) and number (s/p) features. DET-NUM-CARD Cardinal number determiners (e.g., "cinque" in "cinque amici"). Pure-digit numbers are not included (i.e., the list includes "100mila" but not "100000" nor "100,000", "100.000", etc.) DET-POSS Possessive determiners (e.g., "mio", "suo"), with inflectional gender (f/s) and number (s/p) features. DET-WH Wh determiners (e.g., quale in "quale amico"), with inflectional gender (f/s) and number (s/p) features. INT Interjections. MOD Modal verbs (e.g. "dover" in "dover ricostruire"). Same inflectional features as VER (see below). NE Clitic "ne" (as in: "ne hanno molte"). NOUN Nouns, with gender as a derivational feature (F/M) and number as an inflectional feature (s/p). PON Non-sentential punctuation marks (e.g. , " $). PRE Prepositions. PRO-DEMO Demonstrative pronouns (e.g. "questa" in "voglio questa"), with both gender and number as derivational features (F/M, S/P). PRO-INDEF Indefinite pronouns (e.g., "molti" in "vengono molti"), with both gender and number as derivational features (F/M, S/P). PRO-NUM Numeral pronouns (e.g., "cinque" in "cinque sono sopravvissuti"). Pure-digit numbers are not included (e.g., the list includes "100mila" but not 100000 nor 100,000, 100.000, etc.) PRO-PERS Personal pronouns, such as "lui" and "loro". Clitic possessive pronouns (such as pronominal "lo" and "si") are marked by the derivational feature CLI. Person, gender and number are also encoded as derivational features (1/2/3, F/M, S/P). PRO-POSS Possessive pronouns, such as "loro" in "non era uno dei loro"), with gender and number encoded as derivational features (F/M, S/P). PRO-WH Wh-pronouns, such as "quale" in "quale e' venuto?" SENT End of sentence marker (! . ... : ?). SI Clitic "si" as in "di cui si discute". TALE "Tale" in constructions such as "una fortuna tale che...", "la tal cosa", "tali amici", ecc. Gender (f/m) and number (s/p) as inflectional features. VER Verbs, with the following inflectional features: cond/ger/impr/ind/inf/part/sub Conditional, gerundive, imperative, indicative, infinitive, participle, subjunctive. pre/past/impf/fut Present, past, imperfective, future. 1/2/3 Person. s/p Number. f/m Gender (only relevant for participles). cela/cele/celi/celo/cene/ci/gli/gliela/gliele/glieli/glielo/gliene/la/ le/li/lo/mela/mele/meli/melo/mene/mi/ne/sela/sele/seli/selo/sene/si/ tela/tele/teli/telo/tene/ti/vela/vele/veli/velo/vene/vi Clitics attached to the verb. WH Wh elements ("come", "qualora", "quando"...) WH-CHE "Che" as a wh element (e.g., "l'uomo che hai visto", "hai detto che"). LICENSING INFORMATION ====================== This program is dual-licensed free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License and the GNU Lesser General Public License. *********************************************** * Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 * *********************************************** Morph-it! is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License. You are free: - to copy, distribute and display the resource; - to make derivative works; - to make commercial use of the resource; under the following conditions: - you must give the original authors credit; - if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one; - for any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work; - any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holders. Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. You can find a link to the full license from the Morph-it! website. Copyright (C) 2004-2007 Marco Baroni and Eros Zanchetta. ************************************* * GNU Lesser General Public License * ************************************* Morph-it! A free morphological lexicon for the Italian Language Copyright (C) 2004-2007 Marco Baroni and Eros Zanchetta This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. AKNOWLEDGMENTS ============== The main data source for the Morph-it! lexicon was the "la Repubblica" corpus. Thus, we would like to thank the colleagues who developed this resource with us: Lorenzo Piccioni, Guy Aston, Silvia Bernardini, Federica Comastri, Alessandra Volpi, Marco Mazzoleni. We would like to thank the developers of the tools we used to tag, lemmatize and index the Repubblica corpus: the (Italian) TreeTagger (Helmut Schmid, Achim Stein), the ACOPOST taggers (Ingo Schroeder) and the IMS Corpus WorkBench (Oli Christ, Arne Fitschen and Stefan Evert). Thanks to Helmut Schmid also for converting the Morph-it! lexicon into a SFST transducer. We would like to thank Aldo Calpini, who developed the perl module Lingua:IT:Conjugate. We are also very grateful to Jan Daciuk for creating his finite-state utilities and for helping us learn to use them. Finally, a big thanks to the members of the FoLUG, SannioLUG and Scuola (software libero nella scuola) mailing lists, for advice about licensing and dissemination. ...and kudos to Lorenzo for creating and maintaining the SSLMITDev site! FOOTNOTES ========= [1] http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/projekte/gramotron/SOFTWARE/SFST.html [2] http://juggernaut.eti.pg.gda.pl/~jandac/fsa.html