<s>
BabelNet	B-Application
is	O
a	O
multilingual	O
lexicalized	O
semantic	O
network	O
and	O
ontology	O
developed	O
at	O
the	O
NLP	B-Language
group	O
of	O
the	O
Sapienza	O
University	O
of	O
Rome	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BabelNet	B-Application
was	O
automatically	O
created	O
by	O
linking	O
Wikipedia	O
to	O
the	O
most	O
popular	O
computational	O
lexicon	B-Operating_System
of	O
the	O
English	O
language	O
,	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
integration	O
is	O
done	O
using	O
an	O
automatic	O
mapping	O
and	O
by	O
filling	O
in	O
lexical	O
gaps	O
in	O
resource-poor	O
languages	O
by	O
using	O
statistical	B-General_Concept
machine	I-General_Concept
translation	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
result	O
is	O
an	O
encyclopedic	O
dictionary	B-Operating_System
that	O
provides	O
concepts	O
and	O
named	B-General_Concept
entities	I-General_Concept
lexicalized	O
in	O
many	O
languages	O
and	O
connected	O
with	O
large	O
amounts	O
of	O
semantic	O
relations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Additional	O
lexicalizations	O
and	O
definitions	O
are	O
added	O
by	O
linking	O
to	O
free-license	O
wordnets	B-General_Concept
,	O
OmegaWiki	O
,	O
the	O
English	O
Wiktionary	O
,	O
Wikidata	O
,	O
FrameNet	B-General_Concept
,	O
VerbNet	B-General_Concept
and	O
others	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Similarly	O
to	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
,	O
BabelNet	B-Application
groups	O
words	O
in	O
different	O
languages	O
into	O
sets	O
of	O
synonyms	B-Application
,	O
called	O
Babel	O
synsets	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
each	O
Babel	O
synset	B-General_Concept
,	O
BabelNet	B-Application
provides	O
short	O
definitions	O
(	O
called	O
glosses	O
)	O
in	O
many	O
languages	O
harvested	O
from	O
both	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
and	O
Wikipedia	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
,	O
BabelNet	B-Application
(	O
version	O
5.0	O
)	O
covers	O
500	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
contains	O
almost	O
20	O
million	O
synsets	B-General_Concept
and	O
around	O
1.4	O
billion	O
word	O
senses	O
(	O
regardless	O
of	O
their	O
language	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Each	O
Babel	O
synset	B-General_Concept
contains	O
2	O
synonyms	B-Application
per	O
language	O
,	O
i.e.	O
,	O
word	O
senses	O
,	O
on	O
average	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
semantic	O
network	O
includes	O
all	O
the	O
lexico-semantic	O
relations	O
from	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
(	O
hypernymy	O
and	O
hyponymy	O
,	O
meronymy	O
and	O
holonymy	O
,	O
antonymy	O
and	O
synonymy	O
,	O
etc.	O
,	O
totaling	O
around	O
364,000	O
relation	O
edges	O
)	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
an	O
underspecified	O
relatedness	O
relation	O
from	O
Wikipedia	O
(	O
totaling	O
around	O
1.3	O
billion	O
edges	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
5.0	O
also	O
associates	O
around	O
51	O
million	O
images	O
with	O
Babel	O
synsets	B-General_Concept
and	O
provides	O
a	O
Lemon	O
RDF	O
encoding	O
of	O
the	O
resource	O
,	O
available	O
via	O
a	O
SPARQL	B-Language
endpoint	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
2.67	O
million	O
synsets	B-General_Concept
are	O
assigned	O
domain	O
labels	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BabelNet	B-Application
has	O
been	O
shown	O
to	O
enable	O
multilingual	O
Natural	B-Language
Language	I-Language
Processing	I-Language
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
lexicalized	O
knowledge	O
available	O
in	O
BabelNet	B-Application
has	O
been	O
shown	O
to	O
obtain	O
state-of-the-art	O
results	O
in	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
BabelNet	B-Application
received	O
the	O
2015	O
for	O
"	O
groundbreaking	O
work	O
in	O
overcoming	O
language	O
barriers	O
through	O
a	O
multilingual	O
lexicalised	O
semantic	O
network	O
and	O
ontology	O
making	O
use	O
of	O
heterogeneous	O
data	O
sources	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BabelNet	B-Application
featured	O
prominently	O
in	O
a	O
Time	O
magazine	O
article	O
about	O
the	O
new	O
age	O
of	O
innovative	O
and	O
up-to-date	O
lexical	O
knowledge	O
resources	O
available	O
on	O
the	O
Web	O
.	O
</s>
