<s>
Babelfy	B-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
software	O
algorithm	O
for	O
the	O
disambiguation	B-General_Concept
of	O
text	O
written	O
in	O
any	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Specifically	O
,	O
Babelfy	B-General_Concept
performs	O
the	O
tasks	O
of	O
multilingual	O
Word	B-General_Concept
Sense	I-General_Concept
Disambiguation	I-General_Concept
(	O
i.e.	O
,	O
the	O
disambiguation	B-General_Concept
of	O
common	O
nouns	O
,	O
verbs	O
,	O
adjectives	O
and	O
adverbs	O
)	O
and	O
Entity	B-General_Concept
Linking	I-General_Concept
(	O
i.e.	O
</s>
<s>
the	O
disambiguation	B-General_Concept
of	O
mentions	O
to	O
encyclopedic	O
entities	O
like	O
people	O
,	O
companies	O
,	O
places	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Babelfy	B-General_Concept
is	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
BabelNet	B-Application
multilingual	O
semantic	O
network	O
and	O
performs	O
disambiguation	B-General_Concept
and	O
entity	B-General_Concept
linking	I-General_Concept
in	O
three	O
steps	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
associates	O
with	O
each	O
vertex	O
of	O
the	O
BabelNet	B-Application
semantic	O
network	O
,	O
i.e.	O
,	O
either	O
concept	O
or	O
named	B-General_Concept
entity	I-General_Concept
,	O
a	O
semantic	O
signature	O
,	O
that	O
is	O
,	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
related	O
vertices	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
creates	O
a	O
graph-based	B-Application
semantic	O
interpretation	O
of	O
the	O
whole	O
text	O
by	O
linking	O
the	O
candidate	O
meanings	O
of	O
the	O
extracted	O
fragments	O
using	O
the	O
previously-computed	O
semantic	O
signatures	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
a	O
result	O
,	O
the	O
text	O
,	O
written	O
in	O
any	O
of	O
the	O
271	O
languages	O
supported	O
by	O
BabelNet	B-Application
,	O
is	O
output	O
with	O
possibly	O
overlapping	O
semantic	O
annotations	O
.	O
</s>
