Research outputs

Publications

• Rocchi, Stefano. 2024. Thesaurus linguae Latinae, s.v. 1. reta, vol. XI 2, 1634,10-24, Berlin-Boston. 

• Rocchi, Stefano. 2024. Thesaurus linguae Latinae, s.v. reto, vol. XI 2, 1680,45-53, Berlin-Boston.

• Giuliani, Martina, Chiara Zanchi. 2024. Calidum hoc est! Latin temperature terminology between lexical typology and cognitive semantics. Revue de Linguistique Latine du Centre Alfred Ernout (De Lingua Latina), 25: 1-30.

• Biagetti, Erica, Martina Giuliani, Silvia Zampetta, Silvia Luraghi, and Chiara Zanchi. 2024. Combining Neo-Structuralist and Cognitive Approaches to Semantics to Build Wordnets for Ancient Languages: Challenges and Perspectives. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon@ LREC-COLING 2024, 151-161.

• Biagetti, Erica. 2023. Integrare Sanskrit WordNet e Vedic TreeBank: uno studio pilota sulla formularità del Rigveda tra semantica e sintassi. (En: Linking the Sanskrit WordNet with the Vedic Treebank: a pilot study on formulaicy in the R̥igveda between syntax and semantics). In Bossolino, Isabella and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), E pluribus unum. Prospettive sull’Antico. Pavia University Press.

• Biagetti, Erica, Chiara Zanchi and Silvia Luraghi. 2023. Linking the Sanskrit WordNet to the Vedic Dependency Treebank: a pilot study. In Proceeding of the 12th Global WordNet Conference, Donostia/San Sebastián.

• Biagetti, Erica, Luca Brigada Villa, Chiara Zanchi e Silvia Luraghi. 2023. Enhancing the semantic and conceptual description of Ancient Greek verbs in WordNet with VerbNet and FrameNet: a treebank-based study. Papers from the Annual International Conference “Dialogue”, Vol. 22 (Supplementary volume), 1009-1020.

• Biagetti, Erica, Chiara Zanchi and William M. Short. 2021. Toward the creation of WordNets for ancient Indo-European languages. In Vossen, Piek and Christiane Fellbaum (eds.), Proceeding of the 11th Global WordNet Conference, 258-266. University of South Africa (UNISA): Global Wordnet Association. https://aclanthology.org/2021.gwc-1.30

• Brigada Villa, Luca, Erica Biagetti, Riccardo Ginevra and Chiara Zanchi. 2023. Combining WordNets with Treebanks to study idiomatic language: A pilot study on Rigvedic formulas through the lenses of the Sanskrit WordNet and the Vedic Treebank. In Proceeding of the 12th Global WordNet Conference, Donostia/San Sebastián.

• Zanchi, Chiara, Luca Brigada Villa, and Andrea Farina (forthc.). Toward combining Ancient Greek WordNet and AGDT2 for linguistic research: A pilot study on formulas of Iliad. Paper presented at the 3rd International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, 16-18 June 2022.

• Zanchi, Chiara, Silvia Luraghi and Erica Biagetti. 2021. Linking the Ancient Greek WordNet to the Homeric Dependency Lexicon. In Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies. Papers from the Annual International Conference “Dialogue”, Vol. 20. DOI: 10.28995/2075-7182-2021-20-XX-XX.

Talks

• Ginevra, Riccardo, Erica Biagetti, Luca Brigada Villa and Chiara Zanchi. Comparing Indo-European Poetic Languages: How to Combine Construction Grammar and Digital Resources for the Analysis of Formulaic Phraseology in Vedic Sanskrit and Homeric Greek. Formulaic Language in Historical Linguistics: data, methods, tools, and theory, Helsinki, June 2-3, 2025.

• Biagetti, Erica. Cognitive Semantics and ancient languages. Meeting of the Cognitive Linguistics Research Group. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/Zoom. May 10, 2025.

• Biagetti, Erica. Cognitive Semantics and ancient languages: examples from TIME and TEMPERATURE. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. April 7, 2025.

• Carboni, Giorgio, Riccardo Ginevra, and Eleonora Litta. Using digital resources to study semantics and word formation in a historical language: FEAR and TREMOR in the Latin WordNet and Word Formation Latin. Global WordNet Conference 2025. Pavia (Italy), January 27-31, 2025.

• Daniela Santoro, Beatrice Marchesi, Silvia Zampetta, Marco Del Tredici, Erica Biagetti, Eleonora Litta, Claudia Roberta Combei, Stefano Rocchi, Tullio Facchinetti, Riccardo Ginevra and Chiara Zanchi. Exploring Latin WordNet synset annotation with LLMs. Global WordNet Conference 2025. Pavia (Italy), January 27-31, 2025.

• Di Bartolo, Giuseppina, Silvia Zampetta, and Chiara Zanchi. Variation and change in Ancient Greek metaphors of temperature: a corpus-based study. Discourse Studies Colloquium, Department of Linguistics of the University of Cologne. January 8, 2025.

• Santoro, Daniela and Chiara Zanchi. WordNets for ancient languages: state of the art and the contribution of LLMs. Computational approaches to Ancient Greek and Latin. KU Leuven, November 28-29, 2024.

• Biagetti, Erica. Annotare, estrarre e misurare: un approccio costruzionista e basato su corpora per lo studio della formularità nei testi antichi. Cantieri d’Autunno 2024. Universty of Pavia, November 4-5, 2024.

• Biagetti, Erica. La Formularità nel R̥gveda: Un’Analisi Costruzionista con Metodi Quantitativi (Eng. Formularity in the R̥gveda: A Constructionist Analysis with Quantitative Methods). La Storia, le Storie e la Linguistica: XLVIII Annual Meeting of the Società Italiana di Glottologia (SIG). University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, October 24-26, 2024.

• Ginevra, Riccardo. Ricostruire l'alternanza locativa in protoindoeuropeo. Costruzioni argomentali, semantica storica e radici polisemiche (Eng. "Reconstructing Locative Alternation in Proto-Indo-European: Argument Structures, Historical Semantics, and Polysemous Roots"). La Storia, le Storie e la Linguistica: XLVIII Annual Meeting of the Società Italiana di Glottologia (SIG). University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, October 24-26, 2024.

• Ginevra, Riccardo. Conceptual Metaphors and Mobility in Indo-European Lexicon and Phraseology: DEATH IS DEPARTURE and SALVATION IS RETURN. Workshop ‘Winged Words: Comparative and Historical approaches to Conceptual Metaphors’ . Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, September 30, October 1, 2024.

• Di Bartolo, Giuseppina, Silvia Zampetta, and Chiara Zanchi. Variation and change in Ancient Greek metaphors of temperature: a corpus-based study. Workshop ‘Winged Words: Comparative and Historical approaches to Conceptual Metaphors’. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, September 30, October 1, 2024.

• Zampetta, Silvia, Maddalena Bressler, and Giuseppina di Bartolo. Metaphors of HOT and COLD in Ancient Greek: a diachronic perspective. The 21st International Congress of Linguists. University of Poznan, November 8-14, 2024.

• Bressler, Maddalena, Silvia Zampetta, and Chiara Zanchi. Linguistics of Temperature in Ancient Greek: metaphorical extensions of HOT and COLD. 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Helsinki,  August 21-24, 2024.

• Biagetti, Erica. Measuring formularity through corpus linguistics methods: a co-varying collexeme analysis of Rigvedic similes. Poetic Language Workshop. 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Helsinki, August 21-24, 2024.

• Biagetti, Erica, Martina Giuliani, Silvia Zampetta, Silvia Luraghi, and Chiara Zanchi. Combining Neo-Structuralist and Cognitive Approaches to Semantics to Build Wordnets for Ancient Languages: Challenges and Perspectives. Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon@ LREC-COLING 2024.

• Rocchi, Stefano. Scrivere sui muri e sulla terracotta nell'antica Roma. Nell'officina del filologo. Seminari di studio di filologia classica, Lecture given within the PhD Program in Cultura Heritage Studies. "G. D'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara. November 20, 2023.

• Zampetta, Silvia, Erica Biagetti, Nicolò De Rossi, Martina Giuliani, Chiara Zanchi and Silvia Luraghi. Calidum hoc est! Metaphors of hot and cold in Sanskrit, Ancient Greek and Latin. Workshop ‘Conceptual metaphors in a comparative and diachronic perspective’ of the 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL26), University of Heidelberg, September 4-8, 2023.

• Zanchi, Chiara, Erica Biagetti, and William Michael Short. WordNets for Ancient Indo-European Languages. SunoikisisDC Summer 2022 Session 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSlxEFvQ2rI