BabelNet, one of the largest operating multilingual encyclopedic dictionaries has recently released its new live (beta) edition.

The new BabelNet live version includes, among other things:

• An increase in the total number of languages, from 271 to 284. New languages include: Adyghe, Azerbaijani, Goan Konkani, Livvinkarjala, Maithili, Northern Luri, Serbo-Croatian, South Patois, Tarantino, Tulu
• Cantonese, Min Nan and Classical Chinese are now managed, displayed and searchable separately from standard Chinese
• Chinese text is shown in either traditional or simplified characters, depending on which is used in user searches
• Increased number of relations from 380M to around 1.8 billion
• Increased number of images from to 10.8M to 12.1M
• Increased number of synsets from 13.8M to 15.2M
• Increased number of senses from 745M to 932M
• Better management and visualization of has-part, part-of, has-kind, has-instance and is-a relations
• Update of all of the resources, including:
  • All of the Open Multilingual Wordnets at their latest release
  • Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikidata and OmegaWiki
• Integration of new open wordnets for Gaelic, Chinese, Portuguese and Korean

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