Senso Comune, an Open Knowledge Base of Italian Language

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.