Towards a New Computational Lexicon for Italian: building the morphological layer by harmonizing and merging existing resources

The present work illustrates the first steps towards the construction of a new computational lexicon for the Italian language. Following an analysis of existing lexical resources, it was decided to use LexicO as the reference base. In this first phase a resource of nearly 800,000 inflected forms was produced, accompanied by lemmas and morphological traits, obtained by integrating the available data in LexicO with those coming from two support sources: the tool MAGIC and a selection of Italian treebanks.