BabelNetXplorer: a platform for multilingual lexical knowledge base access and exploration

  • Authors:
  • Roberto Navigli;Simone Paolo Ponzetto

  • Affiliations:
  • Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy;Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Knowledge on word meanings and their relations across languages is vital for enabling semantic information technologies: in fact, the ever increasingly multilingual nature of the Web now calls for the development of methods that are both robust and widely applicable for processing textual information in a multitude of languages. In our research, we approach this ambitious task by means of BabelNet, a wide-coverage multilingual lexical knowledge base. In this paper we present an Application Programming Interface and a Graphical User Interface which, respectively, allow programmatic access and visual exploration of BabelNet. Our contribution is to provide the research community with easy-to-use tools for performing multilingual lexical semantic analysis, thereby fostering further research in this direction.