Harmonization and Merging of two Italian Dependency Treebanks

The paper describes the methodology which is currently being defined for the construction of a "Merged Italian Dependency Treebank" (MIDT) starting from already existing resources. In particular, it reports the results of a case study carried out on two available dependency treebanks, i.e. TUT and ISST-TANL. The issues raised during the comparison of the annotation schemes underlying the two treebanks are discussed and investigated with a particular emphasis on the definition of a set of linguistic categories to be used as a "bridge" between the specific schemes. As an encoding format, the CoNLL de facto standard is used.