

Version 3.0 comes with the following features: Conceived within the Sapienza NLP Group, engineered and maintained by Babelscape, BabelNet follows the WordNet model based on the notion of synset (for synonym set), but extends it to contain. of BabelNet, a very large, wide-coverage multilingual semantic network. 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. BabelNet is an innovative multilingual encyclopedic dictionary, with wide lexicographic and encyclopedic coverage of terms, and a semantic network/ontology which connects concepts and named entities in a very large network of semantic relations, made up of about 22 million entries. We create an open multilingual wordnet with large wordnets for over 26 languages. The integration is performed via an automatic linking algorithm and by filling in lexical gaps with the aid of Machine Translation. Roberto Navigli at the Sapienza University of Rome.īabelNet is a very large 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, and the Open Multilingual WordNet. We are proud to announce the release of BabelNet 3.0, a project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and headed by prof.
