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     RESOURCE ANNOUNCEMENT<br>

        <b>RELEASE OF <span>BabelNet</span> <span>2.0</span></b><br>

              <a href="http://babelnet.org" target="_blank">http://<span>babelnet</span>.org</a><br>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">As

 an output of the "MultiJEDI" Starting Grant, funded by the European 

Research Council and headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli, the Linguistic 

Computing Laboratory of the Sapienza University of Rome is proud to 

announce the release of <b>BabelNet 2.0</b>.</span></p>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">BabelNet

 is a multilingual "encyclopedic dictionary" and a multilingual ontology

created by mapping the largest multilingual Web encyclopedia - i.e., Wikipedia - to the most popular computational lexicon of English - i.e., WordNet, and by integrating other lexical resources such as OmegaWiki and the Open Multilingual WordNet.

 The integration is performed via an automatic linking algorithm and by 

filling in lexical gaps with the aid of Machine Translation. The result 

is an "encyclopedic dictionary" that provides Babel synsets, i.e., 

concepts and named entities lexicalized in many languages and connected 

with large amounts of semantic relations.</span></p>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Version 2.0 comes with the following features: </span></p>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">* <b>50 languages </b>now covered!</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">* <b>seamless integration </b>of WordNet, Open Multilingual WordNet, Wikipedia and OmegaWiki</span></p>

<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">* <b>9.3M Babel synsets</b></span>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">* 50M Babel senses</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">* <b>18M textual definitions</b></span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">* 262M semantic relations</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">* <b>17M synset-associated images</b></span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">* Available for download together with <b>Java APIs </b>for programmatic access</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">* Also available in <b>RDF/Lemon format </b>and via a public <b>SPARQL endpoint</b></span></p>

<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">More <b>statistics </b>are available at: <a href="http://babelnet.org/stats.jsp" target="_blank">http://babelnet.org/stats.jsp</a></span></p>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Enjoy!</span></p></div><br clear="all"><br>

-- <br><div dir="ltr">=====================================<br>Roberto Navigli<br>Dipartimento di Informatica<br>Sapienza University of Rome<br>Viale Regina Elena 295 (second floor)<br>00161 Roma Italy<br>Phone: +39 0649255161 - Fax: +39 06 8541842<br>

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