Language Diversity: Visible to Humans, Exploitable by Machines
The Universal Knowledge Core (UKC) is a large multilingual lexical database with a focus on language diversity and covering over a thousand languages. The aim of the database, as well as its tools and data catalogue, is to make the somewhat abstract notion of diversity visually understandable for hu...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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09-03-2022
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| Summary: | The Universal Knowledge Core (UKC) is a large multilingual lexical database
with a focus on language diversity and covering over a thousand languages. The
aim of the database, as well as its tools and data catalogue, is to make the
somewhat abstract notion of diversity visually understandable for humans and
formally exploitable by machines. The UKC website lets users explore millions
of individual words and their meanings, but also phenomena of cross-lingual
convergence and divergence, such as shared interlingual meanings, lexicon
similarities, cognate clusters, or lexical gaps. The UKC LiveLanguage
Catalogue, in turn, provides access to the underlying lexical data in a
computer-processable form, ready to be reused in cross-lingual applications. |
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| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2203.04723 |