See more info below about BabelNet -- which maps from Wikipedia to WordNet (an English lexicon) to make a multilingual ontology.
-Jodi > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [SIGLEX] Release of BabelNet 1.1 > Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:16:14 -0500 > From: Roberto Navigli <[email protected]> > > > ====================================== > RESOURCE ANNOUNCEMENT > RELEASE OF BabelNet 1.1 > http://babelnet.org > ====================================== > > 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 BabelNet 1.1. > > BabelNet is an "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. > 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. > > Version 1.1 comes with the following features: > > * a fully renovated, appealing Web interface at http://babelnet.org > * 5.5 million Babel synsets! > * increased coverage of nominal and named entities > * improved Wikipedia-WordNet mapping and sense translations > * coverage of 6 European languages (coming soon: 40+ languages!) > * millions of pictures and Wikipedia categories associated with babel synsets > * linked to DBpedia > > > === COMING SOON === > > * BabelNet as Linked Open Data > * coverage of 40+ languages (expected this spring) > > > === WE ARE HIRING! === > > 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 > ([email protected]). > > Note that the Sapienza deadline for submitting applications is July 20 > (http://phd.di.uniroma1.it/apply.php), but candidates who apply earlier, and > are successful, could start a research fellowship (about 1500 euros net per > month) immediately and then apply for Ph.D. > > ===================================================================== > SIGLEX Special Interest Group on the Lexicon SIGLEX > > Homepage: www.aclweb.org/siglex E-mail: [email protected] > > SIGLEX Message Center: www.clres.com/siglex/messctr.php > > ===================================================================== > >
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