Frames, corpora and knowledge representation

This volume hosts contributions which focus on a wide variety of cognitive and linguistic aspects of the frame problem, thus highlighting the alternative and complementary features that characterize the concept of "frame". Cognitive operations and conceptualization processes are described in their dynamic principles; contrastive semantic analyses are carried out and illustrated; the possibility of (automatically) identifying frame elements through surface corpus data are explored together with computational approaches to the problem of lexical access. The innovative methodological approaches brought out by these perspectives are illustrated by means of tools and resources available for the analysis of Italian corpus data and for the study of the contemporary and modern history of the Italian language. Contributions by:Charles J. Fillmore, Mark Turner, Seana Coulson, Miriam R.L. Petruck, József Andor, Rema Rossini Favretti, Fabio Tamburini, Corrado Seidenari, Andrea Bolognesi, Raffaella Bernardi, Rodolfo Delmonte, Johan Bos, Malvina Nissim, Domenico Proietti, Andrea Dardi, Marco Biffi.