BabelNet Knowledge Base
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A BabelNet Knowledge Base is a knowledge base.
- Context:
- It can be an Ontology.
- It can be a Lexical Resource.
- It can be a Multilingual Lexical Resource.
- …
- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Lexically-Grounded Ontology, SemEval-2015, Virtuoso Universal Server.
References
2018
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BabelNet Retrieved:2015-4-4.
- BabelNet is a multilingual lexicalized semantic network and ontology developed at the Linguistic Computing Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza University of Rome.[1] [2] BabelNet was automatically created by linking the largest multilingual Web encyclopedia, Wikipedia, to the most popular computational lexicon of the English language, WordNet. The integration is performed by means of an automatic mapping and by filling in lexical gaps in resource-poor languages with the aid of statistical machine translation. The result is an "encyclopedic dictionary"
that provides concepts and named entities lexicalized in many languages and connected with large amounts of semantic relations. Additional lexicalizations and definitions are added by linking to free-license wordnets, OmegaWiki, the English Wiktionary and Wikidata. Similarly to WordNet, BabelNet groups words in different languages into sets of synonyms, called Babel synsets. For each Babel synset, BabelNet provides short definitions (called glosses) in many languages harvested from both WordNet and Wikipedia.
- BabelNet is a multilingual lexicalized semantic network and ontology developed at the Linguistic Computing Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza University of Rome.[1] [2] BabelNet was automatically created by linking the largest multilingual Web encyclopedia, Wikipedia, to the most popular computational lexicon of the English language, WordNet. The integration is performed by means of an automatic mapping and by filling in lexical gaps in resource-poor languages with the aid of statistical machine translation. The result is an "encyclopedic dictionary"
- http://babelnet.org/about.jsp
- QUOTE: BabelNet is both a multilingual encyclopedic dictionary, with lexicographic and encyclopedic coverage of terms, and a semantic network which connects concepts and named entities in a very large network of semantic relations, made up of more than 13 million entries, called Babel synsets. Each Babel synset represents a given meaning and contains all the synonyms which express that meaning in a range of different languages. …
- BabelNet 3.5 covers and is obtained from the automatic integration of:
- WordNet, a popular computational lexicon of English (version 3.0).
- Open Multilingual WordNet, a collection of wordnets available in different languages (downloaded in August 2015).
- Wikipedia, the largest collaborative multilingual Web encyclopedia (November 2014 dump).
- OmegaWiki, a large collaborative multilingual dictionary (July 2015 dump).
- Wiktionary, a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary (August 2014 dump).
- Wikidata, a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike (November 2014 dump).
- Wikiquote, a free online compendium of sourced quotations from notable people and creative works in every language (March 2015 dump).
- VerbNet, a Class-Based Verb Lexicon (version 3.2).
- Microsoft Terminology, a collection of terminologies that can be used to develop localized versions of applications (July 2015 dumps).
- GeoNames, a free geographical database covering all countries and containing over eight million placenames (April 2015 dump).
- WoNeF, an improved, expanded and evaluated automatic French translation of WordNet (high precision version, downloaded in August 2015).
- ImageNet, an image database organized according to the WordNet hierarchy (2011 release).
- Additionally, it contains translations obtained from sense-annotated sentences. The correctness of the WordNet-Wikipedia mapping in BabelNet 3.5 has been estimated at
- QUOTE: BabelNet is both a multilingual encyclopedic dictionary, with lexicographic and encyclopedic coverage of terms, and a semantic network which connects concepts and named entities in a very large network of semantic relations, made up of more than 13 million entries, called Babel synsets. Each Babel synset represents a given meaning and contains all the synonyms which express that meaning in a range of different languages. …
on open-text words.
BabelNet is fully integrated with:
- Babelfy: a state-of-the-art multilingual disambiguation and entity linking system.
- Wikipedia Bitaxonomy: a state-of-the-art taxonomy of Wikipedia pages aligned to a taxonomy of Wikipedia categories.
2010
- (Navigli & Ponzetto, 2010) ⇒ Roberto Navigli, and Simone Paolo Ponzetto. (2010). BabelNet: Building a Very Large Multilingual Semantic Network.” In: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
- In this paper we present BabelNet -- a very large, wide-coverage multilingual semantic network. The resource is automatically constructed by means of a methodology that integrates lexicographic and encyclopedic knowledge from WordNet and Wikipedia. In addition Machine Translation is also applied to enrich the resource with lexical information for all languages. We conduct experiments on new and existing gold-standard datasets to show the high quality and coverage of the resource.
- (Ponzetto & Navigli, 2010) ⇒ Simone Paolo Ponzetto, and Roberto Navigli. (2010). “Knowledge-rich Word Sense Disambiguation Rivaling Supervised Systems.” In: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010).
- ↑ R. Navigli, S. P. Ponzetto. BabelNet: Building a Very Large Multilingual Semantic Network. Proceedings of of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010), Uppsala, Sweden, July 11–16, 2010, pp. 216–225.