Lexvo.org References

Publications

For a general overview of Lexvo.org, including the motivation behind this effort, please refer to:

• Language as a Foundation of the Semantic Web   PDF   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2008)
  In: Proc. Poster And Demonstration Session of the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008), CEUR Vol. 401, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  

For information about the language hierarchy, please read:

• Towards Universal Multilingual Knowledge Bases   PDF    BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2010)
  In: Principles, Construction, and Applications of Multilingual Wordnets. Proc. 5th Global Wordnet Conference (GWC 2010), Narosa Publishing, New Delhi, India.
  

Data Sources

Much of the entity information provided by Lexvo is based on the following third-party data sources:

• Wikipedia by various web contributors
• Wiktionary by various web contributors
• ISO 639-3 specification by SIL International
• ISO 639-5 specification by the US Library of Congress
• ISO 15924 specification by the Unicode Consortium
• WordNet 3.0 by Princeton University
• Unicode 5.0 specification by the Unicode Consortium
• Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) sponsored by the Unicode Consortium
• Ethnologue Language Codes database by SIL International
• Linguist List
• Hanzi Data by Ross Paterson
• AUTOTYP: See Johanna Nichols & Balthasar Bickel (2009). The AUTOTYP genealogy and geography database: 2009 release.
• various additional resources were parsed to establish external links to them

We thank the people behind these resources for their amazing work!