Il volume è strutturato in due parti: la prima, di semantica e linguistica computazionale, ha
come argomento l'ontologia interlinguistica dell'azione IMAGACT (capitoli 1, 2 e 3); la …

Action verbs have many meanings, covering actions in different ontological types. Moreover,
each language categorizes action in its own way. One verb can refer to many different …

The paper describes the multimodal enrichment of ItalWordNet action verbs' entries by
means of an automatic map** with a conceptual ontology of action types instantiated by …

The paper presents IMAGACT, a freely accessible online ontology of action verbs. Based on
corpora of spoken Italian and English, it has been developed at the Universities of Florence …

This paper describes an infrastructure that has been designed to deal with corpus-based
variations that do not fall within the primary, physical variation of action verbs. We have first …

IMAGACT is a corpus-based ontology of action concepts, derived from English and Italian
spontaneous speech resources, which makes use of the universal language of images to …

The concept of affordance was first introduced by James Gibson in the late 1970's within the
field of the ecological psychology. Affordances are defined as possibilities for action that the …

Italiano. L'articolo presenta i risultati di uno studio volto a valutare la consistenza della
categorizzazione dello spazio azionale operata da annotatori madrelingua per un set di …

We present some issues in the development of the semantic annotation of IMAGACT, a
multimodal and multilingual ontology of actions. The resource is structured on action …

Recent neurophysiological studies on canonical neurons demonstrate that perceiving
manipulable objects automatically activates the same neural circuits that fire during the …