The participants’ involvement and curiosity were evident as they asked plenty of questions related to the topics discussed over the two days.īut what exactly is BabelNet, and how does it work? The multilingual semantic network consists of concepts and named entities, all connected in a huge network of relations. There were also guest speakers from European institutions, such as Rodolfo Maslias who talked about the EP’s Glossary Links project (.ppt here). The main speakers throughout the workshop were Roberto Navigli (the founder) and Claudio Delli Bovi from La Sapienza University of Rome, and Asunción Gómez Pérez from Madrid’s UPM. The whole workshop schedule is available here. ![]() The first day, after a general introduction about the project, was more of a “technical tour”, including industrial applications of BabelNet, while the second day featured the discussion of case studies of resource mapping to BabelNet, including talks related to EU projects such as IATE and EUROVOC, and how they could benefit from the mapping. Sheltering the guests from the freezing Luxembourgish rain, the welcoming conference room – the first plenary chamber of the European Parliament – hosted a range of speakers who guided the audience through the main aspects of the largest multilingual encyclopaedic dictionary and semantic network. The BabelNet workshop was a huge success with more than 150 people attending it on the 2nd and 3rd of March in the Schuman Building’s Hemicycle in Luxembourg.Īlthough most of the participants were from European institutions, the event saw people with the most diverse backgrounds. The MyHEH platform hosts hundreds of personal stories about European history, culture, heritage and much more, covering the period from the beginning of the 20th century up to the present day. ![]() My House of European History My House of European History (MyHEH) is a project of the Directorate General for Translation of the European Parliament, managed by the My House of European History Unit.Interinstitutional and external cooperation.Defence Terminology Military terminology. ![]()
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