It is my pleasure to invite you all to the Workshop on 10 Years of BabelNet and Multilingual Neurosymbolic NLU http://mousse-project.org/events/event-a5f3r5.html which will take place in *Rome*, at *Sapienza*, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering (DIAG), on *4-5 July*. The workshop includes a *slate of invited speakers *who will participate in person, including in Dagstuhl-like brainstorming sessions, and is *open online to all interested attendees* (sign up here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5yVnaxXsT5t63_peEvZOTw3CyY-oIPEzY1l6cIddTlsWpxQ/viewform).
We will celebrate the most far-reaching and novel multilingual dictionary and knowledge base, BabelNet https://babelnet.org, a popular resource currently used by* more than 1000 universities and research institutions*, and discuss the future of neurosymbolic approaches to multilingual Natural Language Understanding.
BabelNet is an output of the Sapienza NLP https://nlp.uniroma1.it Group and two ERC projects acknowledged among the 15 projects through which the ERC "transformed science" https://erc.europa.eu/how-ERC-transformed-science/stories.html, but it also led to the creation of a spinoff company, Babelscape https://babelscape.com, that is one of the most successful in the Sapienza startup portfolio. Notably, besides the ERC and Babelscape, this event is also co-sponsored by Accademia della Crusca https://accademiadellacrusca.it/ (the oldest linguistic academy in the world), the Artificial Intelligence Journal https://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence and the European Language Grid https://www.european-language-grid.eu/.
A *new updated version of BabelNet will be available* in conjunction with the event together with the *brand-new Python API* (available on PyPi https://pypi.org/project/babelnet/)! A smartphone app is also available on Android and iPhone.
Enjoy!