Enriching the ISST-TANL Corpus with Semantic Frames

The paper describes the design and the results of a manual annotation methodology devoted to enrich the ISST-TANL Corpus with Semantic Frames information. The main issues encountered in applying the English FrameNet annotation criteria to a corpus of Italian language are discussed together with the choice of anchoring the semantic annotation layer to the underlying dependency syntactic structure. We also describe an experiment to measure inter-annotator agreement and a first case study to extend and specialise FrameNet annotation to a corpus of legislative texts.