UBY - A Large-Scale Unified Lexical-Semantic Resource (UBY 1.0) released

(apologies for X-posting)

We are pleased to announce the release of UBY 1.0 -
a large-scale lexical-semantic resource for natural language processing (NLP)
based on the ISO standard Lexical Markup Framework (LMF):

 http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/data/uby/


UBY combines a wide range of information from expert-constructed and collaboratively constructed
resources for English and German.
Currently, UBY holds structurally and semantically interoperable versions of nine resources in two languages:

 * English WordNet, Wiktionary, Wikipedia, FrameNet and VerbNet,
 * German Wikipedia, Wiktionary and GermaNet, and multilingual OmegaWiki.

A subset of these resources is linked at the word sense level.
There are monolingual sense alignments between VerbNet–FrameNet and VerbNet–WordNet as well as
between WordNet–Wikipedia and WordNet–Wiktionary.
In addition, UBY provides cross-lingual sense alignments between WordNet and German OmegaWiki, also
including the inter-language links given in Wikipedia and OmegaWiki.

All resources in UBY are represented according to our LMF lexicon model, UBY-LMF.
UBY-LMF captures lexical information at a fine-grained level by employing a large number of Data
Categories from ISOCat.


Highlights of UBY:

 * The union of a wide range of heterogeneous resources in a single, standardized resource.
 * The linking at the word sense level between a subset of the resources.