UBY 0.6.0 - A Large-Scale Unified Lexical-Semantic Resource Based on LMF

[Tristan Miller]

We are pleased to announce the release of UBY 0.6.0.

Project homepage: http://code.google.com/p/uby/


== Changes ==

Highlights of UBY 0.6.0

* Integration of new UBY lexicon OntoWiktionary (Meyer/Gurevych, 2012).

* Major revision of the lexicon converters including.

** Standardization of syntactic labels.

** Standardization of external references.

* Support for embedded H2 databases.

* Support for using Maven-packaged H2 databases in a UIMA pipeline.

* Numerous fixes and performance improvements.


References:

Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych: OntoWiktionary — Constructing an
Ontology from the Collaborative Online Dictionary Wiktionary, chapter 6
in M. T. Pazienza and A. Stellato (Eds.): Semi-Automatic Ontology
Development: Processes and Resources, p. 131-161, Hershey, PA: IGI
Global, February 2012.


== Project summary ==

UBY is a linked lexical-semantic resource for natural language
processing based on the ISO standard Lexical Markup Framework (LMF). It
combines a wide range of information from ten expert-constructed and
collaboratively constructed resources for English and German:

* English WordNet, Wiktionary, Wikipedia, FrameNet, and VerbNet,
* German Wikipedia, Wiktionary, GermaNet, and IMSLex-Subcat, as well as
* multilingual OmegaWiki.

A subset of these resources is inter-linked at the word sense level. UBY
is a valuable resources for many knowledge-based NLP applications. Get
more information on the UBY website: http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/uby/

UBY is a research project at the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP)
Lab of the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. The following
people have mainly contributed to this project (in alphabetical order):
Richard Eckart de Castilho, Judith Eckle-Kohler, Iryna Gurevych, Silvana
Hartmann, Michael Matuschek, Christian M. Meyer, Tristan Miller, and
Tri-Duc Nghiem.


== Publications ==

A more detailed description of UBY is available in our scientific articles:

* Iryna Gurevych, Judith Eckle-Kohler, Silvana Hartmann, Michael
Matuschek, Christian M. Meyer, and Christian Wirth: UBY – A Large-Scale
Unified Lexical-Semantic Resource Based on LMF, in: Proceedings of the
13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (EACL), p. 580-590, April 2012. Avignon, France.

* Judith Eckle-Kohler, Iryna Gurevych, Silvana Hartmann, Michael
Matuschek, and Christian M. Meyer: UBY-LMF – A Uniform Model for
Standardizing Heterogeneous Lexical-Semantic Resources in ISO-LMF, in:
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources
and Evaluation (LREC), p. 275-282, May 2012. Istanbul, Turkey.

Please cite our EACL paper if you use UBY in your work. Please cite the
LREC paper if you use the lexicon model UBY-LMF.


== License and Availability ==

The latest version of UBY is available from our Google code page:

https://code.google.com/p/uby/

Besides the lexicon access and creation code, you can find tutorials and
precompiled UBY database dumps on this homepage.

UBY is available as open source software under the Apache License 2.0
(ASL) and the GNU General Public License (GPL). Please see LICENSE.txt
for details.


== Contact ==

Please direct any questions or suggestions to:
uby-dev...@googlegroups.com


--
Tristan Miller, Research Scientist
Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP-TUDA)
Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Tel: +49 6151 16 6166 | Web: http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/