%0 Journal Article %T Senso Comune, an Open Knowledge Base of Italian Language %A Guido Vetere %A Alessandro Oltramari %A Isabella Chiari %A Elisabetta Jezek %J Traitement Automatique des Langues %D 2012 %I Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (ATALA) %X Senso Comune is an open knowledge base for Italian language, available through a Web-based collaborative plaftorm, whose construction is in progress. The resource integrates dictionary data coming from both users and legacy resources with an ontological backbone, which provides foundations for a formal characterization of lexical semantic structures (frames). A nucleus of basic Italian lemmas, which have been semantically analyzed and classified, is available for both online access and download. A restricted community of contributors is currently working for increasing the lexical coverage of the resource. Research is underway to extend the knowledge base model to encompass verbal frames. %K frames %K thematic roles %K electronic dictionaries %K linguistic resources %K ontology %K computational lexicon %U http://www.atala.org/Senso-Comune-an-Open-Knowledge