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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;"><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" dir="ltr">We are pleased to announce the release of UBY 1.0 -
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<div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">a large-scale lexical-semantic resource for natural language processing (NLP)
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based on the ISO standard Lexical Markup Framework (LMF):</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
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</span></font><a href="http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/data/uby/" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/data/uby/</span></font></a><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
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UBY combines a wide range of information from expert-constructed and collaboratively constructed resources for English and German.
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Currently, UBY holds structurally and semantically interoperable versions of nine resources in two languages:
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* English WordNet, Wiktionary, Wikipedia, FrameNet and VerbNet, </span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
* German Wikipedia, Wiktionary and GermaNet, and multilingual OmegaWiki.</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
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A subset of these resources is linked at the word sense level. </span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
There are monolingual sense alignments between VerbNet–FrameNet and VerbNet–WordNet as well as between WordNet–Wikipedia and WordNet–Wiktionary.
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In addition, UBY provides cross-lingual sense alignments between WordNet and German OmegaWiki,
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also including the inter-language links given in Wikipedia and OmegaWiki.</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
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All resources in UBY are represented according to our LMF lexicon model, UBY-LMF.</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
UBY-LMF captures lexical information at a </span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif">fi</font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">ne-grained level by employing a large number of Data Categories from ISOCat.</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
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Highlights of UBY:</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
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* The union of a wide range of heterogeneous resources in a single, standardized resource.</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
* The linking at the word sense level between a subset of the resources.</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
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UBY is complemented by a Java API, the UBY-API, and conversion tools (e.g., for converting the resources to UBY-LMF).</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
The UBY API and conversion tools are available at Google Code: </span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
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</span></font><a href="http://code.google.com/p/uby/" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">http://code.google.com/p/uby/</span></font></a><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
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Highlights of the UBY-API:</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
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* Unified access to the various information types in the nine resources.</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
* Easy cross-resource access to the various information types in the resources.</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
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A tutorial showing the use of the UBY-API can be found at</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
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</span></font><a href="http://code.google.com/p/uby/wiki/ApiTutorial" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">http://code.google.com/p/uby/wiki/ApiTutorial</span></font></a><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
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A Web Interface for exploring and visualizing UBY is currently being developed and will soon be available</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
at </span></font><a href="http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/data/uby/" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/data/uby/</span></font></a><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">.</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
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This project was initiated under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych, Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP), Technische Universität Darmstadt.</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
We are grateful for the generous financial support from the Volkswagen Foundation and the German Research Foundation.</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
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Please direct any questions or suggestions to</span></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><br>
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</span></font><a href="mailto:uby-users@googlegroups.com" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">uby-users@googlegroups.com</span></font></a></div>
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Dr. Judith Eckle-Kohler<br>
Postdoctoral Researcher<br>
Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP-TUDA)<br>
FB 20 Computer Science Department <br>
Technische Universität Darmstadt<br>
Hochschulstr. 10, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany<br>
phone [+49] (0)6151 16-6166, fax -5455, room S2/02/B115<br>
eckle-kohler@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de<br>
www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de<br>
Web Research at TU Darmstadt (WeRC) www.werc.tu-darmstadt.de<br>
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