<b id="internal-source-marker_0.004764890065416694" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
======================================</span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> RESOURCE ANNOUNCEMENT</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> RELEASE OF BabelNet 1.1</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="http://babelnet.org/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://babelnet.org</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">======================================</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As an output of the "MultiJEDI" Starting Grant, funded by the </span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">European Research Council and headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli,</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the Linguistic Computing Laboratory of the Sapienza University</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">of Rome is proud to announce the release of BabelNet 1.1.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BabelNet is an </span></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"</span></span><b id="internal-source-marker_0.004764890065416694" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">encyclopedic dictionary</span></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"</span></span><b id="internal-source-marker_0.004764890065416694" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and a multilingual </span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ontology created by mapping the largest multilingual Web </span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">encyclopedia - i.e., Wikipedia - to the most popular computational </span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">lexicon of English - i.e., WordNet. </span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The integration is performed via an automatic linking algorithm</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and by filling in lexical gaps with the aid of Machine Translation. </span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The result is an "encyclopedic dictionary" that provides babel synsets,</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">i.e., concepts and named entities lexicalized in many languages </span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and connected with large amounts of semantic relations.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Version 1.1 comes with the following features:</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* a fully renovated, appealing Web interface at </span><a href="http://babelnet.org/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://babelnet.org</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* 5.5 million Babel synsets!</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* increased coverage of nominal and named entities</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* improved Wikipedia-WordNet mapping and sense translations</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* coverage of 6 European languages (coming soon: 40+ languages!)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* millions of pictures and Wikipedia categories associated with babel synsets</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* </span></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">linked</span></span><b id="internal-source-marker_0.004764890065416694" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to DBpedia</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">=== COMING SOON ===</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* BabelNet as Linked Open Data</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* coverage of 40+ languages (expected this </span></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">s</span></span><b id="internal-source-marker_0.004764890065416694" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">pring)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">=== WE ARE HIRING! ===</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Linguistic Computing Laboratory is hiring! A Ph.D. position is open in the field of multilingual lexical semantics for highly qualified candidates with an excellent Master's degree in computer science, computational linguistics or related areas. The successful candidate will join a young, dynamic research team (made up of 2 faculty members, 2 post-docs and 6 Ph.D. students) with solid experience and proven excellence in NLP research. If interested, please send inquiries to Prof. Roberto Navigli (<a href="mailto:navigli@di.uniroma1.it">navigli@di.uniroma1.it</a>).</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Note that the Sapienza deadline for submitting applications is July 20 (<a href="http://phd.di.uniroma1.it/apply.php">http://phd.di.uniroma1.it/apply.php</a>), but candidates who apply earlier, and are successful, could start a research fellowship (about 1500 euros net per month) immediately</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(255,153,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and then apply for Ph.D.</span></b><br>
<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>=====================================<br>Roberto Navigli<br>Dipartimento di Informatica<br>SAPIENZA Universita' di Roma<br>Via Salaria, 113 (now in: Viale Regina Elena 295)<br>00198 Roma Italy<br>
Phone: +39 0649255161 - Fax: +39 06 8541842<br>Home Page: <a href="http://wwwusers.di.uniroma1.it/~navigli" target="_blank">http://wwwusers.di.uniroma1.it/~navigli</a><br>=====================================