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One World - Seven Thousand Languages (Best Paper Award, Third Place)

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Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2018)

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We present a large scale multilingual lexical resource, the Universal Knowledge Core (UKC), which is organized like a Wordnet with, however, a major design difference. In the UKC the meaning of words is represented not only with synsets but also using language independent concepts which cluster together the synsets which, in different languages, codify the same meaning. In the UKC, it is concepts and not synsets, as it is the case in the Wordnets, which are connected in a semantic network. The use of language independent concepts allows for the native integrability, analysis and use of any number of languages, with important applications in, e.g., multilingual language processing, reasoning (as needed, for instance, in data and knowledge integration) and image understanding.

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Notes

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    See http://globalwordnet.org/ for a compilation of the most relevant resources available today.

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    The word knowledge in UKC is motivated by our focus on studying language not per se but as a key component of reasoning systems.

  3. 3.

    From February 2018, the UKC will be browsable on line at the link http://kidf.eu.

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    http://www.ethnologue.com/.

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Acknowledgments

The first version of the UKC was developed by Ilya Zaihrayeu, around 2004. This implementation was revised many times, most often as a joint effort between Ilya and Marco Marasca. Since the beginning, the UKC has been designed with the goal of supporting the automation of reasoning based on information extracted from text, the original goal being the matching of ontologies [32]. We thank the many postdocs and PhD students who have extensively used the UKC in their research.

The current work is supported by QROWD (http://qrowd-project.eu), a Horizon 2020 project, under Grant Agreement No. 732194. The second author is supported by the ESSENCE Marie Curie Initial Training Network, funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme under grant agreement no. 607062.

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    Fausto Giunchiglia, Khuyagbaatar Batsuren & Abed Alhakim Freihat

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Giunchiglia, F., Batsuren, K., Alhakim Freihat, A. (2023). One World - Seven Thousand Languages (Best Paper Award, Third Place). In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13396. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23793-5_19

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