The class of Articles has a finite list of members. The two possible Types definite and indefinite are marked in the lexicon (RD and RI respectively), while in the corpus they are not encoded. The other pertinent features are Number and Gender.
| Article | It. tag | |||
| Type | ||||
| Gender | Number | definite | indefinite | |
| m | s | il, lo | un, uno | RD/ms |
| n | s | l' | RD/ns | |
| m | p | i, gli | RD/mp | |
| f | s | la | una/un' | RI/fs |
| f | p | le | RI/fp | |
`Un', `il' are graphical variants of `uno', `lo', used before words beginning with simple consonant or beginning with a consonantal group plus `l', `r': ``un trono'', ``il cloro'' (not if the group of consonants begins with `s').
`Uno', `lo' are used before the consonantal digram beginning with `s', before the digram `gn' and before `z', `x' and consonantic groups whose second element is not `l', `r'. They are also used before words beginning with a vowel and in this case they are elided.
The article helps in general in disambiguating other words in the context, however, `l' ', sometimes, is not sufficient to disambiguate: ``l'insegnante capace parte domani'' (can be both masculine and feminine).