To the best of our knowledge this is the first data-driven approach which is developed for this language and differs from state-of-the-art approches developed for English for the use of specific lexical semantic features.
the Italian-specific semantic features have been obtained from a semi-automatically built event lexicon which has been derived from the SIM-PLE/CLIPS lexicon (Ruimy et al., 2003), following the proposal in Caselli (2009).