Research

GIAT is involved in many researches concerning:

  • Public speeches of candidates during general and local elections;
  • Public and institutional speeches of high public charges (Presidents of Italian Republic, Prime Ministers, Presidents of Chamber of Deputies and Senate of the Republic);
  • Public and institutional speeches of Presidents of Confindustria (main organisation representing Italian manufacturing and services companies );
  • Institutional documents of Italian Universities;
  • Second half of Nineteenth Century Italian literature
  • International scientific literature
  • Medical literature and healthcare communication
  • Translations (newspaper articles, books, literature)

GIAT is developing tools to:

  • Represent lexical profile of an author/speaker or groups of authors/speakers
  • Summarize in a brief text, the main features of an author/speaker
  • Recognize the typical features of an author/speaker or groups of authors/speakers
  • Recognize the most distinctive text on a specific topic
  • Recognize the similarities among lexical profiles of authors/speakers
  • Observe the lexical trend in diachronic corpora
  • Consider the similarities among texts
  • Consider hypothesis on authorship attribution