Dealing with Italian Adjectives in Noun Phrase: a Study Oriented to Natural Language Generation

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  • Giorgia Conte
  • Cristina Bosco
  • Alessandro Mazzei
چکیده

English. This paper describes a theoretical and empirical investigation about the position of adjectives in the Italian language. The long term goal which oriented the study is the formalization of this information into a natural language generation system. Providing that adjectives mainly occur within noun phrases, we focused on them and we collected data from corpora representing very different text genres, i.e. social media and standard ones, in order to compare the theoretical predictions with the real use of the adjective in Italian. The results obtained by confirm the previsions of the modern linguistic theories but also show the different behaviour of adjectives in the distinct analysed genres. Italiano. Questo lavoro presenta un’analisi teorica ed empirica sulla posizione degli aggettivi nella lingua Italiana. L’orientamento del lavoro è dato dalla necessità di formalizzare questa informazione nell’ambito di un sistema di generazione automatica della linguaggio. Poiché gli aggettivi si presentano principalmente nei sintagmi nominali, ci si è concentrati su questi, raccogliendo dati da corpora che rappresentano generi di testo diversi, ovvero social media e standard, al fine di confrontare le previsioni teoriche con l’uso reale dell’aggettivo in Italiano. I risultati ottenuti confermano le previsioni delle moderne teorie linguistiche ma mostrano anche il diverso comportamento degli aggettivi nei diversi generi analizzati.

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تاریخ انتشار 2017