Babelfy
| Babelfy | |
|---|---|
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| Developers | Andrea Moro, Alessandro Raganato, Roberto Navigli |
| Stable release | Babelfy 1.0
/ June 2014 |
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| License | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported |
| Website | babelfy |
Babelfy is a software algorithm for the disambiguation of text written in any language. It performs the tasks of multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation (i.e., the disambiguation of common nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs) and Entity Linking (i.e. the disambiguation of mentions to encyclopedic entities like people, companies, places, etc.).
Overview
Babelfy uses the BabelNet multilingual knowledge graph to perform disambiguation and entity linking in three steps:
- It associates with each vertex of the BabelNet semantic network, i.e., either concept or named entity, a semantic signature, that is, a set of related vertices. This is a preliminary step which needs to be performed only once, independently of the input text.
- Given an input text, it extracts all the linkable fragments from this text and, for each of them, lists the possible meanings according to the semantic network.
- It creates a graph-based semantic interpretation of the whole text by linking the candidate meanings of the extracted fragments using the previously computed semantic signatures. It then extracts a dense subgraph of this representation and selects the best candidate meaning for each fragment.
As a result, the text, written in any of the 271 languages supported by BabelNet, is output with possibly overlapping semantic annotations.
See also
References
- 1 2 A. Moro, A. Raganato, R. Navigli. Entity Linking meets Word Sense Disambiguation: a Unified Approach. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2, pp. 231-244, 2014.
- ↑ Natalia López-Cortés. Disambiguating a Disambiguation Tool: Babelfy from a Linguistic Point of View. Revista Electrónica de Lingüística Aplicada 20(1):71-93
- ↑ Aidan Hogan, Eva Blomqvist, Michael Cochez, Claudia d'Amato, Gerard de Melo, Claudio Gutierrez, José Emilio Labra Gayo, Sabrina Kirrane, Sebastian Neumaier, Axel Polleres, Roberto Navigli, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Sabbir M. Rashid, Anisa Rula, Lukas Schmelzeisen, Juan F. Sequeda, Steffen Staab, Antoine Zimmermann: Knowledge Graphs. Synthesis Lectures on Data, Semantics, and Knowledge, Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2021, ISBN 978-3-031-00790-3.
- ↑ A. A. Gadzhiev, A. K. Khmelev. Lesk algorithm and Babelfy system for disambiguation. Issues of Applied Linguistics, no. 36.
- ↑ "Babelfy - about". Retrieved 11 October 2025.