A Project for the Construction of an Italian Lexical Knowledge Base in the Framework of WordNet

This paper describes a project that aims to develop a large-size Lexical Knowledge Base (LKB) for the Italian language. The project began because presently there is no LKB available for Italian, on an electronic support, that can be used both for natural language processing and lexicography applications. To develop the LKB techniques developed in artificial intelligence that allow acquisition and automatic data structuring will be use