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Collective intelligence and language resources: introduction to the special issue on collaboratively constructed language resources

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  1. http://scripts.mit.edu/~cci/HCI.

  2. http://www.ci2012.org.

  3. http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/research/scientific-community/workshop-organization/acl-ijcnlp-2009-workshop.

  4. http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/research/scientific-community/workshop-organization/coling-2010-workshop.

  5. http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/research/scientific-community/workshop-organization/acl-2012-workshop.

  6. http://www.icwsm.org.

  7. http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/data/sense-alignment.

    http://lcl.uniroma1.it/babelnet.

  8. http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/data/lexical-resources.

    http://www.h-its.org/english/research/nlp/download/wikinet.php.

  9. http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/data/multiwords.

  10. http://anawiki.essex.ac.uk.

  11. http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwpl.

  12. http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia-miner.

  13. http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwktl.

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We thank Jungi Kim for his helpful input to this article. This work has been supported by the Volkswagen Foundation as part of the Lichtenberg Professorship Program under grant Nr. I/82806.

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Gurevych, I., Zesch, T. Collective intelligence and language resources: introduction to the special issue on collaboratively constructed language resources. Lang Resources & Evaluation 47, 1–7 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-012-9178-z

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