Publications

Reference paper about BabelNet

R. Navigli, M. Bevilacqua, S. Conia, D. Montagnini and F. Cecconi. Ten Years of BabelNet: A Survey. Proc. of IJCAI 2021, pp. 4559-4567
R. Navigli and S. Ponzetto. BabelNet: The Automatic Construction, Evaluation and Application of a Wide-Coverage Multilingual Semantic Network. Artificial Intelligence, 193, Elsevier, 2012, pp. 217-250
Winner of the Artificial Intelligence Journal 2017 Prominent Paper Award

Linkage to other resources

A. Calabrese, M. Bevilacqua and R. Navigli. Fatality Killed the Cat or: BabelPic, a Multimodal Dataset for Non-Concrete Concepts. Proc. of ACL 2020, pp. 4680-4686
A. Di Fabio, S. Conia and R. Navigli. VerbAtlas: a Novel Large-Scale Verbal Semantic Resource and Its Application to Semantic Role Labeling. Proc. of EMNLP/IJCNLP 2019, pp. 627-637
M. Maru, F. Scozzafava, F. Martelli and R. Navigli. SyntagNet: Challenging Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation with Lexical-Semantic Combinations. Proc. of EMNLP/IJCNLP 2019, pp. 3532-3538
T. Flati, D. Vannella, T. Pasini and R. Navigli. MultiWiBi: The multilingual Wikipedia bitaxonomy project. Artificial Intelligence 241, 2016, pp. 66-102

Novel concept/sense representations

B. Scarlini, T. Pasini and R. Navigli. SensEmBERT: Context-Enhanced Sense Embeddings for Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation. Proc. of AAAI 2020, pp. 8758-8765
S. Conia and R. Navigli. Conception: Multilingually-Enhanced, Human-Readable Concept Vector Representations. Proc. of COLING 2020, pp. 3268-3284
I. Iacobacci, M. T. Pilehvar and R. Navigli. SensEmbed: Learning Sense Embeddings for Word and Relational Similarity. Proc. of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2015), Beijing, China, 26-31 July 2015, pp. 95-105
J. Camacho-Collados, M. T. Pilehvar and R. Navigli. A Unified Multilingual Semantic Representation of Concepts. Proc. of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2015), Beijing, China, 26-31 July 2015, pp. 741-751.

RDF conversion of BabelNet using the Lemon model

M. Ehrmann, F. Cecconi, D. Vannella, J. McCrae, P. Cimiano and R. Navigli. Representing Multilingual Data as Linked Data: the Case of BabelNet 2.0. Proc. of the 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2014), Reykjavik, Iceland, 26-31 May, 2014.

Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation datasets annotated with BabelNet

A. Moro and R. Navigli. SemEval-2015 Task 13: Multilingual All-Words Sense Disambiguation and Entity Linking. Proc. of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), in the the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2015), Denver, Colorado, June 4-5th, 2015, pp. 288-297
R. Navigli, D. A. Jurgens and D. Vannella. SemEval-2013 Task 12: Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation. Proc. of 7th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), in the Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2013), Atlanta, USA, June 14-15th, 2013, pp. 222-231

Using BabelNet for multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation

T. Pasini and R. Navigli. Train-O-Matic: Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation with no (manual) effort. Artificial Intelligence 279 (2020)
B. Scarlini, T. Pasini and R. Navigli. With More Contexts Comes Better Performance: Contextualized Sense Embeddings for All-Round Word Sense Disambiguation. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020), Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (online), November 16th-20th, 2020, pp. 3528-3539
B. Scarlini, T. Pasini and R. Navigli. SensEmBERT: Context-Enhanced Sense Embeddings for Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation. Proc. of AAAI 2020, pp. 8758-8765
E. Barba, L. Procopio, N. Campolungo, T. Pasini and R. Navigli. MuLaN: Multilingual Label propagatioN for Word Sense Disambiguation. Proc. of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020), 11-17th July 2020, Yokohama, Japan, pp. 3837-3844
F. Scozzafava, M. Maru, F. Brignone, G. Torrisi and R. Navigli. Personalized PageRank with Syntagmatic Information for Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation. Proc. of ACL (demo) 2020, pp. 37-46
R. Navigli and S. Ponzetto. Multilingual WSD with Just a Few Lines of Code: the BabelNet API. Proc. of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2012), Jeju, Korea, July 9-11, 2012, pp. 67-72
R. Navigli and S. Ponzetto. Joining Forces Pays Off: Multilingual Joint Word Sense Disambiguation. Proc. of the 2012 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2012), Jeju, Korea, July 12-14, 2012, pp. 1399-1410

Using BabelNet for multilingual Word Semantic Relatedness

S. Conia and R. Navigli. Conception: Multilingually-Enhanced, Human-Readable Concept Vector Representations. Proc. of COLING 2020, pp. 3268-3284
R. Navigli and S. Ponzetto. BabelRelate! A Joint Multilingual Approach to Computing Semantic Relatedness. Proc. of the 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2012), Toronto, Canada, July 22-26, 2012

BabelNetXplorer

R. Navigli and S. Ponzetto. BabelNetXplorer: A Platform for Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Base Access and Exploration. Proc. of the 21st International World Wide Web Conference, Comp. volume (WWW 2012), Lyon, France, April 16-20th, 2012, pp. 393-396