Language Diversity: Visible to Humans, Exploitable by Machines

Gábor Bella, Erdenebileg Byambadorj, Yamini Chandrashekar, Khuyagbaatar Batsuren, Danish Cheema, Fausto Giunchiglia


Abstract
The Universal Knowledge Core (UKC) is a large multilingual lexical database with a focus on language diversity and covering over two thousand languages. The aim of the database, as well as its tools and data catalogue, is to make the abstract notion of linguistic diversity visually understandable for humans and formally exploitable by machines. The UKC website lets users explore millions of individual words and their meanings, but also phenomena of cross-lingual convergence and divergence, such as shared interlingual meanings, lexicon similarities, cognate clusters, or lexical gaps. The UKC LiveLanguage Catalogue, in turn, provides access to the underlying lexical data in a computer-processable form, ready to be reused in cross-lingual applications.
Anthology ID:
2022.acl-demo.15
Volume:
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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May
Year:
2022
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Dublin, Ireland
Editors:
Valerio Basile, Zornitsa Kozareva, Sanja Stajner
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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156–165
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-demo.15
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.acl-demo.15
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Gábor Bella, Erdenebileg Byambadorj, Yamini Chandrashekar, Khuyagbaatar Batsuren, Danish Cheema, and Fausto Giunchiglia. 2022. Language Diversity: Visible to Humans, Exploitable by Machines. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 156–165, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Language Diversity: Visible to Humans, Exploitable by Machines (Bella et al., ACL 2022)
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