LINGUIST List: Vol-27-3271. Sun Aug 14 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.
Subject: 27.3271, Software: Release of BabelNet 3.7
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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 13:32:35
From: Roberto Navigli [navigli at di.uniroma1.it]
Subject: Release of BabelNet 3.7
We are happy to announce the release a new version of BabelNet, a project
recently featured in a TIME magazine article. BabelNet (http://babelnet.org)
is the largest multilingual encyclopedic dictionary and semantic network
created by means of the seamless integration of the largest multilingual Web
encyclopedia (i.e., Wikipedia) with the most popular computational lexicon of
English (i.e., WordNet) and other lexical resources such as Wiktionary,
OmegaWiki, Wikidata, Open Multilingual WordNet, Wikiquote, VerbNet, Microsoft
Terminology, GeoNames, WoNeF, ImageNet, ItalWordNet, Open Dutch WordNet and
FrameNet. The integration is performed via a high-performance 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.
Version 3.7 comes with the following new features:
- New resource integrated: FrameNet (lexical units)
- More than 2500 Babel synsets identified as key concepts
- Mappings with several versions of WordNet now integrated (from 1.6 to 3.0)
- More than 2.6 millionBabel synsets labeled with domains (was 1,558,806 in
v3.6)
- More statistics are available at: http://babelnet.org/stats
BabelNet was part of the MultiJEDI project (http://multijedi.org) originally
funded by the European Research Council and headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli at
the Linguistic Computing Laboratory (http://lcl.uniroma1.it) of the Sapienza
University of Rome. BabelNet is now a self-sustained project. It is, and
always will be, free for research purposes, including download. Babelscape
(http://babelscape.com), a Sapienza startup company, is BabelNet's commercial
support arm, thanks to which the project will be continued and improved over
time.
Enjoy!
The BabelNet Group
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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