FYI: this project claims to use Wikidata (among other resources) for multilingual word-sense disambiguation. One of the first third-party uses of Wikidata that I am aware of (but other pointers are welcome if you have them). Wiktionary and OmegaWiki are also mentioned here.
Cheers,
Markus
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Babelfy: Word Sense Disambiguation and Entity Linking Together! Resent-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:34:07 +0000 Resent-From: semantic-web@w3.org Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:43:12 +0200 From: Andrea Moro andrea8moro@gmail.com To: undisclosed-recipients:;
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Babelfy: Word Sense Disambiguation and Entity Linking together!
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As an output of the "MultiJEDI" Starting Grant http://multijedi.org, funded by the European Research Council and headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli, the Linguistic Computing Laboratory http://lcl.uniroma1.itof the Sapienza University of Rome is proud to announce the first release of Babelfy http://babelfy.org.
Babelfy [1] is a joint, unified approach to Word Sense Disambiguation and Entity Linking for arbitrary languages. The approach is based on a loose identification of candidate meanings coupled with a densest subgraph heuristic which selects high-coherence semantic interpretations. Its performance on both disambiguation and entity linking tasks is on a par with, or surpasses, those of task-specific state-of-the-art systems.
Babelfy draws primarily on BabelNet (http://babelnet.org), a very large encyclopedic dictionary and semantic network. BabelNet 2.5 covers 50 languages and provides both lexicographic and encyclopedic knowledge for all the open-class parts of speech, thanks to the seamless integration of WordNet, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, OmegaWiki, Wikidata and the Open Multilingual WordNet.
Features in Babelfy:
* 50 languages covered!
* Available via easy-to-use Java APIs.
* Disambiguation and entity linking is performed using BabelNet, thereby implicitly annotating according to several different inventories such as WordNet, Wikipedia, OmegaWiki, etc.
Babelfy the world(be there and get a free BabelNet t-shirt!):
* Monday, June 23 - ACL 2014 (Baltimore, MD, USA) - TACL paper presentation http://www.transacl.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/54.pdf
* Tuesday, August 19 - ECAI 2014 (Prague, Czech Republic) - Multilingual Semantic Processing with BabelNet http://www.ecai2014.org/tutorials/
* Sunday, August 24 - COLING 2014(Dublin, Ireland) - Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation and Entity Linking http://www.coling-2014.org/tutorials.php
[1] Andrea Moro, Alessandro Raganato, Roberto Navigli. Entity Linking meets Word Sense Disambiguation: a Unified Approach http://www.transacl.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/54.pdf. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2, pp. 231-244 (2014).