An empirical experience on the utilization of the Italian Reference Corpus in Meaning Analysis

The spirit of the paper can be summarized in the sentence: "Meaning is the product of context". Our experience is founded on three basic assumptions: context is crucial to restrict and identify the senses of a word and to disambiguate them; meaning is a composite net of connections between word-token and the context; textual corpora are a significant source of knowledge for a contextual approach in sense distinctions.