Ontolex-Lemon in Wikidata and other Wikibase instances

David Lindemann


Abstract
This paper provides insight into how the core elements of the Ontolex-Lemon model are inte- grated in the Wikibase Ontology, the data model fundamental to any instance of the Wikibase software, including Wikidata lexemes, which today is probably the largest Ontolex-Lemon use case, a dataset collaboratively built by the community of Wikidata users. We describe how lexical entries are modeled on a Wikibase, including the linguistic description of lexemes, the linking of lexical entries, lexical senses and lexical forms across resources, and links across the domain of lexemes and the ontological part of a Wikibase knowledge graph. Our aim is to present Wikibase as a solution for storing and collaboratively editing lexical data follow- ing Semantic Web standards, and to identify relevant research questions to be addressed in future work.
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2025.ontolex-1.5
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Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge: The 5th OntoLex Workshop
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September
Year:
2025
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Naples, Italy
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Katerina Gkirtzou, Slavko Žitnik, Jorge Gracia, Dagmar Gromann, Maria Pia di Buono, Johanna Monti, Maxim Ionov
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ontolex | WS
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Unior Press
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35–45
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https://aclanthology.org/2025.ontolex-1.5/
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David Lindemann. 2025. Ontolex-Lemon in Wikidata and other Wikibase instances. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge: The 5th OntoLex Workshop, pages 35–45, Naples, Italy. Unior Press.
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Ontolex-Lemon in Wikidata and other Wikibase instances (Lindemann, ontolex 2025)
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