This work introduces the first dependency-annotated resource for Old Italian, developed on the Divina Commedia within the Universal Dependencies framework, namely the Italian Old treebank. In addition to the description of the resource, this study presents an approach to the treatment of ellipsis in the context of NLP, specifically adapted to the Universal Dependencies guidelines. A data-driven analysis follows, focusing on predicate ellipsis and object omission in the Divina Commedia, through the systematic extraction and examination of data from Italian Old treebank. The results provide empirical evidence that is relevant both for a categorization of these two types of ellipsis in the Commedia and for more general computational applications related to the phenomenon of ellipsis.
Il presente lavoro introduce la prima risorsa sintatticamente annotata a dipendenze per l’italiano antico, realizzata sulla Divina Commedia secondo il framework di Universal Dependencies, la treebank Italian Old. Oltre alla descrizione della risorsa, viene presentato un approccio al trattamento dell’ellissi in contesto NLP, adattato alle linee guida di Universal Dependencies. Segue un’analisi di tipo data-driven, incentrata in particolare sull’ellissi del predicato e sull’omissione dell’oggetto nella Divina Commedia, con estrazione e studio sistematico dei dati tratti dalla treebank. I risultati offrono evidenze empiriche rilevanti sia per una categorizzazione delle due tipologie di ellissi nella Commedia, sia per applicazioni computazionali più generali legate al fenomeno dell’ellissi.
The sound of silence in the Divine Comedy: a data-driven study of predicate ellipsis and object omission
CORBETTA, Claudia
2026
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This work introduces the first dependency-annotated resource for Old Italian, developed on the Divina Commedia within the Universal Dependencies framework, namely the Italian Old treebank. In addition to the description of the resource, this study presents an approach to the treatment of ellipsis in the context of NLP, specifically adapted to the Universal Dependencies guidelines. A data-driven analysis follows, focusing on predicate ellipsis and object omission in the Divina Commedia, through the systematic extraction and examination of data from Italian Old treebank. The results provide empirical evidence that is relevant both for a categorization of these two types of ellipsis in the Commedia and for more general computational applications related to the phenomenon of ellipsis.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14242/362629
URN:NBN:IT:UNIBG-362629