Towards the Linking of two Electronic Lexical Databases of Italian.

In this paper we address the issue of the semiautomatic link of ItalWordNet and PAROLE/SIMPLE/CLIPS, two electronic lexical databases of Italian language, based on different lexical semantic models with their own underlying principles and peculiarities. Nevertheless, the two resources present many compatible aspects that led us to take their analysis further, convinced that a considerable gain could be achieved by their link. In this paper, an outline of the mapping of both their ontological frameworks and semantic relations is provided, the linking methodology and related problems are then described, finally the reciprocal benefits and enhancements the two lexicons would gain from their linking are illustrated.