BabelNet: The automatic construction, evaluation and application of a wide-coverage multilingual semantic network

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 193, Issue , 2012, Pages 217-250

  Navigli, Roberto ^a   Ponzetto, Simone Paolo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Graph algorithms; Knowledge acquisition; Semantic networks; Word sense disambiguation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CONSTRUCTION; CROSS-LINGUAL; DATA SETS; ENCYCLOPEDIC KNOWLEDGE; GRAPH ALGORITHMS; HIGH QUALITY; IN-VITRO; LEXICAL COVERAGE; LEXICAL INFORMATION; LEXICAL RESOURCES; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; SEMANTIC NETWORK; SEMANTIC RELATIONS; WIKIPEDIA; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION; WORDNET;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; SEMANTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84867003885     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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