<s>
UBY	B-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
large-scale	O
lexical-semantic	O
resource	O
for	O
natural	B-Language
language	I-Language
processing	I-Language
(	O
NLP	B-Language
)	O
developed	O
at	O
the	O
Ubiquitous	O
Knowledge	O
Processing	O
Lab	O
(	O
UKP	O
)	O
in	O
the	O
department	O
of	O
Computer	O
Science	O
of	O
the	O
Technische	O
Universität	O
Darmstadt	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
UBY	B-General_Concept
is	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
ISO	O
standard	O
Lexical	B-General_Concept
Markup	I-General_Concept
Framework	I-General_Concept
(	O
LMF	B-General_Concept
)	O
and	O
combines	O
information	O
from	O
several	O
expert-constructed	O
and	O
collaboratively	O
constructed	O
resources	O
for	O
English	O
and	O
German	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
UBY	B-General_Concept
applies	O
a	O
word	O
sense	O
alignment	O
approach	O
(	O
subfield	O
of	O
word	B-General_Concept
sense	I-General_Concept
disambiguation	I-General_Concept
)	O
for	O
combining	O
information	O
about	O
nouns	O
and	O
verbs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Currently	O
,	O
UBY	B-General_Concept
contains	O
12	O
integrated	O
resources	O
in	O
English	O
and	O
German	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
UBY-LMF	B-Application
is	O
a	O
format	O
for	O
standardizing	O
lexical	O
resources	O
for	O
Natural	B-Language
Language	I-Language
Processing	I-Language
(	O
NLP	B-Language
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
conforms	O
to	O
the	O
ISO	O
standard	O
for	O
lexicons	O
:	O
LMF	B-General_Concept
,	O
designed	O
within	O
the	O
ISO-TC37	O
,	O
and	O
constitutes	O
a	O
so-called	O
serialization	O
of	O
this	O
abstract	O
standard	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
accordance	O
with	O
the	O
LMF	B-General_Concept
,	O
all	O
attributes	O
and	O
other	O
linguistic	O
terms	O
introduced	O
in	O
UBY-LMF	B-Application
refer	O
to	O
standardized	O
descriptions	O
of	O
their	O
meaning	O
in	O
ISOCat	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
UBY	B-General_Concept
is	O
available	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
open	O
resource	O
repository	O
DKPro	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
DKPro	O
UBY	B-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
Java	O
framework	O
for	O
creating	O
and	O
accessing	O
sense-linked	O
lexical	O
resources	O
in	O
accordance	O
with	O
the	O
UBY-LMF	B-Application
lexicon	O
model	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
the	O
code	O
of	O
UBY	B-General_Concept
is	O
licensed	O
under	O
a	O
mix	O
of	O
free	O
licenses	O
such	O
as	O
GPL	B-License
and	O
CC	O
by	O
SA	O
,	O
some	O
of	O
the	O
included	O
resources	O
are	O
under	O
different	O
licenses	O
such	O
as	O
academic	B-License
use	I-License
only	I-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
is	O
also	O
a	O
Semantic	O
Web	O
version	O
of	O
UBY	B-General_Concept
called	O
lemonUby	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BabelNet	B-Application
is	O
an	O
automatically	O
lexical	O
semantic	O
resource	O
that	O
links	O
Wikipedia	O
to	O
the	O
most	O
popular	O
computational	O
lexicons	O
such	O
as	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
first	O
glance	O
,	O
UBY	B-General_Concept
and	O
BabelNet	B-Application
seem	O
to	O
be	O
identical	O
and	O
competitive	O
projects	O
;	O
however	O
,	O
the	O
two	O
resources	O
follow	O
different	O
philosophies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
its	O
early	O
stage	O
,	O
BabelNet	B-Application
was	O
primarily	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
alignment	O
of	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
and	O
Wikipedia	O
,	O
which	O
by	O
the	O
very	O
nature	O
of	O
Wikipedia	O
implied	O
a	O
strong	O
focus	O
on	O
nouns	O
,	O
and	O
especially	O
named	O
entities	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Later	O
on	O
,	O
the	O
focus	O
of	O
BabelNet	B-Application
was	O
shifted	O
more	O
towards	O
other	O
parts	O
of	O
speech	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
UBY	B-General_Concept
,	O
however	O
,	O
was	O
focused	O
from	O
the	O
very	O
beginning	O
on	O
verb	O
information	O
,	O
especially	O
,	O
syntactic	O
information	O
,	O
which	O
is	O
contained	O
in	O
resources	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
VerbNet	B-General_Concept
or	O
FrameNet	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Another	O
main	O
difference	O
is	O
that	O
UBY	B-General_Concept
models	O
other	O
resources	O
completely	O
and	O
independently	O
from	O
each	O
other	O
,	O
so	O
that	O
UBY	B-General_Concept
can	O
be	O
used	O
as	O
wholesale	O
replacement	O
of	O
each	O
of	O
the	O
contained	O
resources	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Moreover	O
,	O
the	O
LMF	B-General_Concept
model	O
in	O
UBY	B-General_Concept
allows	O
unified	O
way	O
of	O
access	O
for	O
all	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
individual	O
resources	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Meanwhile	O
,	O
BabelNet	B-Application
follow	O
an	O
approach	O
similar	O
to	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
and	O
bakes	O
selected	O
information	O
types	O
into	O
so	O
called	O
Babel	O
Synsets	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Additionally	O
,	O
BabelNet	B-Application
enriches	O
the	O
original	O
resources	O
,	O
e.g.	O
,	O
by	O
providing	O
automatically	O
created	O
translations	O
for	O
concepts	O
which	O
are	O
not	O
lexicalized	O
in	O
a	O
particular	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
UBY	B-General_Concept
has	O
been	O
successfully	O
used	O
in	O
different	O
NLP	B-Language
tasks	O
such	O
as	O
Word	B-General_Concept
Sense	I-General_Concept
Disambiguation	I-General_Concept
,	O
Word	O
Sense	O
Clustering	O
,	O
Verb	O
Sense	O
Labeling	O
and	O
Text	B-Algorithm
Classification	I-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
UBY	B-General_Concept
also	O
inspired	O
other	O
projects	O
on	O
automatic	O
construction	O
of	O
lexical	O
semantic	O
resources	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Furthermore	O
,	O
lemonUby	O
was	O
used	O
to	O
improve	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
results	O
,	O
especially	O
,	O
finding	O
translations	O
for	O
unknown	O
words	O
.	O
</s>
