UBY-LMF is a format for standardizing lexical resources for Natural Language Processing (NLP). UBY-LMF
conforms to the ISO standard for lexicons:
LMF, designed within the
ISO-TC37, and constitutes a so-called serialization of this abstract standard. In accordance with the LMF, all attributes and other linguistic terms introduced in UBY-LMF refer to standardized descriptions of their meaning in
ISOCat.
UBY-LMF has been implemented in Java and is actively developed as a
Open Source project on Google Code
Based on this Java implementation, the large scale electronic lexicon
UBY has automatically been created - it is the result of using UBY-LMF to standardize a range of diverse lexical resources frequently used for NLP applications.
In 2013, UBY contains 10 lexicons which are pairwise interlinked at the sense level:
* English
WordNet
WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words in more than 200 languages. WordNet links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into '' synsets'' with short definition ...
,
Wiktionary
Wiktionary ( , , rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number ...
,
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read refer ...
,
FrameNet
FrameNet is a research and resource development project based at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, California, which has produced an electronic resource based on a theory of meaning called
frame semantics. The data ...
,
VerbNet
The VerbNet project maps PropBank verb types to their corresponding Levin classes. It is a lexical resource that incorporates both semantic and syntactic information about its contents.
VerbNet is part of thSemLinkproject in development at the Un ...
, OmegaWiki
* German
Wiktionary
Wiktionary ( , , rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number ...
,
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read refer ...
,
GermaNet
GermaNet is a semantic network for the German language. It relates nouns, verbs, and adjectives semantically by grouping lexical units that express the same concept into ''synsets'' and by defining semantic relations between these synsets. GermaN ...
, IMSLex-Subcat and
* multilingual OmegaWiki.
A subset of lexicons integrated in UBY have been converted to a Semantic Web format according to the lemon lexicon model.
[John McCrae, Guadalupe Aguado-de-Cea, Paul Buitelaar, Philipp Cimiano, Thierry Declerck, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Jorge Gracia, Laura Hollink, Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Dennis Spohr, Tobias Wunner. (2012) Interchanging lexical resources on the Semantic Web. Language Resources and Evaluation 46:701–719.] This conversion is based on a mapping of UBY-LMF to the lemon lexicon model.
External references
the UBY web siteUBY project on GitHub
lemonUby (Semantic Web version of UBY)
References
{{Reflist
Lexical databases