One World – Seven Thousand Languages

We present a large scale multilingual lexical resource, the Universal Knowledge Core (UKC), which is organized like a Wordnet with, however, a major design difference. In the UKC the meaning of words is represented not only with synsets but also using language inde- pendent concepts which cluster together the synsets which, in different languages, codify the same meaning. In the UKC, it is concepts and not synsets, as it is the case in the Wordnets, which are connected in a se- mantic network. The use of language independent concepts allows for the native integrability, analysis and use of any number of languages, with important applications in, e.g., multilingual language processing, reasoning (as needed, for instance, in data and knowledge integration) and image understanding.