LINGUIST List 23.1650: FYI: UBY: A Large-Scale Lexical-Semantic Resource

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Sat Mar 31 2012 FYI: UBY: A Large-Scale Lexical-Semantic Resource Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org>
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Date: 30-Mar-2012 From: Judith Eckle-Kohler <eckle-kohlerukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> Subject: UBY: A Large-Scale Lexical-Semantic Resource E-mail this message to a friend We are pleased to announce the release of UBY 1.0 - a large-scale lexical-semantic resource for natural language processing (NLP) based on the ISO standard Lexical Markup Framework (LMF): http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/data/uby/ UBY combines a wide range of information from expert-constructed and collaboratively constructed resources for English and German. Currently, UBY holds structurally and semantically interoperable versions of nine resources in two languages: * English WordNet, Wiktionary, Wikipedia, FrameNet and VerbNet, * German Wikipedia, Wiktionary and GermaNet, and multilingual OmegaWiki. A subset of these resources is linked at the word sense level. There are monolingual sense alignments between VerbNet–FrameNet and VerbNet–WordNet as well as between WordNet–Wikipedia and WordNet–Wiktionary. In addition, UBY provides cross-lingual sense alignments between WordNet and German OmegaWiki, also including the inter-language links given in Wikipedia and OmegaWiki. All resources in UBY are represented according to our LMF lexicon model, UBY-LMF. UBY-LMF captures lexical information at a ﬁne-grained level by employing a large number of Data Categories from ISOCat. Highlights of UBY: * The union of a wide range of heterogeneous resources in a single, standardized resource. * The linking at the word sense level between a subset of the resources. UBY is complemented by a Java API, the UBY-API, and conversion tools (e.g., for converting the resources to UBY-LMF). The UBY API and conversion tools are available at Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/uby/ Highlights of the UBY-API: * Unified access to the various information types in the nine resources. * Easy cross-resource access to the various information types in the resources. A tutorial showing the use of the UBY-API can be found at http://code.google.com/p/uby/wiki/ApiTutorial A Web Interface for exploring and visualizing UBY is currently being developed and will soon be available at http://www.ukp.tu- darmstadt.de/data/uby/. This project was initiated under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych, Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP), Technische Universität Darmstadt. We are grateful for the generous financial support from the Volkswagen Foundation and the German Research Foundation. Please direct any questions or suggestions to uby-usersgooglegroups.com Dr. Judith Eckle-Kohler Postdoctoral Researcher Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP-TUDA) FB 20 Computer Science Department Technische Universität Darmstadt Hochschulstr. 10, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany phone [+49] (0)6151 16-6166, fax -5455, room S2/02/B115 eckle-kohlerukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de Web Research at TU Darmstadt (WeRC) www.werc.tu-darmstadt.de Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $67,000. This money will go to help keep the List running by supporting all of our Student Editors for the coming year. See below for donation instructions, and don't forget to check out Fund Drive 2012 site! http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2012/ There are many ways to donate to LINGUIST! You can donate right now using our secure credit card form at https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Alternatively you can also pledge right now and pay later. To do so, go to: https://linguistlist.org/donation/pledge/pledge1.cfm For all information on donating and pledging, including information on how to donate by check, money order, or wire transfer, please visit: http://linguistlist.org/donation/ The LINGUIST List is under the umbrella of Eastern Michigan University and as such can receive donations through the EMU Foundation, which is a registered 501(c) Non Profit organization. Our Federal Tax number is 38-6005986. These donations can be offset against your federal and sometimes your state tax return (U.S. tax payers only). For more information visit the IRS Web-Site, or contact your financial advisor. Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that they will match any gift you make to a non-profit organization. Normally this entails your contacting your human resources department and sending us a form that the EMU Foundation fills in and returns to your employer. This is generally a simple administrative procedure that doubles the value of your gift to LINGUIST, without costing you an extra penny. Please take a moment to check if your company operates such a program. Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST! Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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