Converting Italian Treebanks: Towards an Italian Stanford Dependency Treebank

The paper addresses the challenge of converting MIDT, an existing dependency-based Italian treebank resulting from the harmonization and merging of smaller resources, into the Stanford Dependencies annotation formalism, with the final aim of constructing a standard-compliant resource for the Italian language. Achieved results include a methodology for converting treebank annotations belonging to the same dependency-based family, the Italian Stanford Dependency Treebank (ISDT), and an Italian localization of the Stanford Dependency scheme.