A Multilingual Semantic Network as Linked Data: lemon-BabelNet

Empowered by Semantic Web technologies and the recent Linked Data uptake, the publication of linguistic data collections on the Web is, apace with the Web of Data, encouragingly progressing. Indeed, with its long-standing tradition of linguistic resource creation and handling, the Natural Language Processing community can, in many respects, benefit greatly from the Linked Data paradigm. As part of our participation to the Data Challenge associated to the Linked Data in Linguistics Workshop, this paper describes the lemon-BabelNet dataset, a multilingual semantic network published as Linked Data. 1