UWN: A Large Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Base

We present UWN, a large multilingual lexical knowledge base that describes the meanings and relationships of words in over 200 languages. This paper explains how link prediction, information integration and taxonomy induction methods have been used to build UWN based on WordNet and extend it with millions of named entities from Wikipedia. We additionally introduce extensions to cover lexical relationships, frame-semantic knowledge, and language data. An online interface provides human access to the data, while a software API enables applications to look up over 16 million words and names.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2012
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum
• Keywords: ACL 2012, Computational Linguistics, Lexical Knowledge Base, Lexical Relationships, Multilingual Lexical Knowledge