EventNet-ITA: Italian Frame Parsing for Events

This paper introduces EventNet-ITA, a large, multi-domain corpus annotated with event frames for Italian, and presents an efficient approach for multi-label Frame Parsing. The approach is then evaluated on the dataset. Covering a wide range of individual, social and historical phenomena, the main contribution of EventNet-ITA is to provide the research community with a resource for textual event mining and a novel and extensive tool for Frame Parsing in Italian.

Providing Advanced Access to Historical War Memoirs Through the Identification of Events, Participants and Roles

The progressive digitization of historical archives provides new, often domain specific, textual resources that report on facts and events happened in the past; among them, memoirs are a very common type of primary source. In this paper, we present an approach for extracting information from historical war memoirs and turning it into structured knowledge. This is based on the semantic notions of events, participants and roles. We assess quantitatively each of the key-steps of our approach and provide a graph-based representation of the extracted knowledge, which allows the end user to move between close and distant reading of the collection.