It is my pleasure to invite you all to the Workshop on 10 Years of BabelNet and Multilingual Neurosymbolic NLU 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).

We will celebrate the most far-reaching and novel multilingual dictionary and knowledge base, BabelNet, 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 Group and two ERC projects acknowledged among the 15 projects through which the ERC "transformed science", but it also led to the creation of a spinoff company, Babelscape, 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 (the oldest linguistic academy in the world), the Artificial Intelligence Journal and the European Language Grid.

A new updated version of BabelNet will be available in conjunction with the event together with the brand-new Python API (available on PyPi)! A smartphone app is also available on Android and iPhone.

Enjoy!