Roberto Navigli at the Linguistic Computing Laboratory of the Sapienza University of Rome. More than 2.6 million Babel synsets labeled with domains (was 1,558,806 in v3.6)īabelNet was part of the MultiJEDI project originally funded by the European Research Council and headed by Prof.Mappings with several versions of WordNet now integrated (from 1.6 to 3.0).More than 2500 Babel synsets identified as key concepts.New resource integrated: FrameNet (lexical units).Version 3.7 comes with the following new features: 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. The integration is performed via a high-performance linking algorithm and by filling in lexical gaps with the aid of Machine Translation.
BabelNet ( ) 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. We are happy to announce the release a new version of BabelNet, a project recently featured in a TIME magazine article.