Publications

Reference paper about BabelNet:

• 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.

Wikipedia Bitaxonomy Project:

• T. Flati, D. Vannella, T. Pasini, R. Navigli. Two Is Bigger (and Better) Than One: the Wikipedia Bitaxonomy Project. Proc. of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014), Baltimore, USA, June 22-27, 2014, pp. 945-955.

Novel concept/sense representations:

• I. Iacobacci, M. T. Pilehvar, 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. (website: http://lcl.uniroma1.it/nasari/)
• J. Camacho-Collados, M. T. Pilehvar and R. Navigli. NASARI: a Novel Approach to a Semantically-Aware Representation of Items. Proc. of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2015), Denver, Colorado (US), 31 May-5 June 2015, pp. 567-577. (website: http://lcl.uniroma1.it/nasari/)

RDF conversion of BabelNet using the Lemon model:

• M. Ehrmann, F. Cecconi, D. Vannella, J. McCrae, P. Cimiano, 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 dataset annotated with BabelNet:

• A. Moro, 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, 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 the creation of semantic predicates:

• T. Flati and R. Navigli. SPred: Large-scale Harvesting of Semantic Predicates. Proc. of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2012), Sofia, Bulgaria, August 4-9, 2013, pp. 1222-1232.

BabelNet API for multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation:

• 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.

Using BabelNet for multilingual joint Word Sense Disambiguation:

• 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 semantic relatedness:

• 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 (this site!):

• 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.