Il volume è strutturato in due parti: la prima, di semantica e linguistica computazionale, ha
come argomento l'ontologia interlinguistica dell'azione IMAGACT (capitoli 1, 2 e 3); la …

Action verbs are the less predictable linguistic type for bilingual dictionaries and they cause
major problems for MT technologies that are immediately evident to the user. This is not only …

The paper describes the multimodal enrichment of ItalWordNet action verbs' entries by
means of an automatic mapping with a conceptual ontology of action types instantiated by …

Actions are productive concepts, but they are both linguistically and cognitively
underdetermined: what defines an action in the event continuum is still an open question …

IMAGACT is a corpus-based ontology of action concepts, derived from English and Italian
spontaneous speech resources, which makes use of the universal language of images to …

This paper describes a method to measure the lexical gap of action verbs in Italian and
English by using the IMAGACT ontology of action. The fine-grained categorization of action …

Action verbs are one of the frequently occurring linguistic elements in any given natural
language as the speakers use them during every linguistic intercourse. However, each …

I principali verbi di azione ad alta frequenza in italiano e in inglese sono “generali”, cioè si
estendono ad azioni che appartengono a differenti tipi pragmatici. La tabella seguente, tratta …

Recent neurophysiological studies on canonical neurons demonstrate that perceiving
manipulable objects automatically activates the same neural circuits that fire during the …

We present some issues in the development of the semantic annotation of IMAGACT, a
multimodal and multilingual ontology of actions. The resource is structured on action …