Announcement: Release of BabelNet 5

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*BabelNet <https://babelnet.org/> celebrates its 10th anniversary! We are
proud to announce the release of a new major version of BabelNet, including
API access and download, developed jointly by the Sapienza NLP Group
<http://nlp.uniroma1.it/> of the Sapienza University of Rome, under the
supervision of prof. Roberto Navigli
<http://wwwusers.di.uniroma1.it/~navigli/>, and Babelscape
<http://babelscape.com/>, a high-tech multilingual NLP company providing
innovative solutions for multilingual neuro-symbolic NLP and multilingual
knowledge graph creation and integration.BabelNet - winner of the prominent
paper award 2017 from the Artificial Intelligence Journal
<http://aij.ijcai.org/aij-awards-list-of-previous-winners> and the META
prize 2015 <http://www.meta-net.eu/meta-prize>, and covered in media such
as The Guardian
<https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/23/oxford-english-dictionary-can-worlds-biggest-dictionary-survive-internet>
and Time magazine
<http://wwwusers.di.uniroma1.it/~navigli/img/Redefining_the_modern_dictionary.png>
- is today’s most far-reaching multilingual lexical-semantic resource
which, according to need, can be used as an encyclopedic dictionary, or a
semantic network or a huge knowledge base/ontology. It has been used by
more than 1000 universities and research institutions, enabling
multilinguality in several fields of AI and NLP, such as semantic search,
Word Sense Disambiguation, Semantic Role Labeling and image tagging.Version
5.0 comes with the following features: - A brand-new interface- 500
languages now covered!- Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikidata and GeoNames have
been updated thanks to BabelNet live, a continuously-growing resource with
daily updates from all the sources that go to make it up- Existing wordnets
updated- WordNet 2020 <https://en-word.net/> integrated- Better sense
inventory thanks to the manual validation of thousands of mappings-
Improved treatment of Chinese- 4 million new multilingual synsets (from 16
in v4 to 20 million synsets in v5)- 1,426 million senses (was 832 million
senses in v4, increasing language coverage considerably)- Linkage to
BabelPic <http://babelpic.org>, VerbAtlas <http://verbatlas.org>, and many
other resources- Improved domain labels available, including: Education and
science, Mathematics and statistics, Navigation and aviation, Geography,
geology and places, Culture, anthropology and society, and more - Thousands
of synsets manually updated with the new domain labels- Improved Java and
HTTP RESTful API. More statistics are available at:
https://babelnet.org/statistics <https://babelnet.org/statistics>.
Enjoy!Kind regards,The BabelNet team*


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Roberto Navigli
*Full Professor*
Department of Computer Science
Sapienza University of Rome
Viale Regina Elena, 295b
00161 Roma Italy
Phone: +39 0649255161 - Fax: +39 06 49918301
Home Page: http://wwwusers.di.uniroma1.it/~navigli
Sapienza NLP Group: http://nlp.uniroma1.it
Co-founder of Babelscape srl <http://babelscape.com>
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