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The main contributions are: the approach itself, a formal quantitative measure of language diversity; a set of formal quantitative measures of resource incompleteness and a large scale resource, called the Universal Knowledge Core (UKC) built following the methodology proposed. As a concrete example of an application, we provide an algorithm for distinguishing polysemes from homonyms, as stored in the UKC.","doi":"10.24963/ijcai.2017/560","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/560","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/0560.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/560.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/bibtex/560","volume":{"slug":"2017","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2017","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/","year":2017,"location":"Melbourne, Australia","dates":"19-25 August 2017","editors":"Carles Sierra","isbn":"978-0-9992411-0-3","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization","doi_prefix":"10.24963/ijcai.2017"},"section":"Natural Language Processing","track":"Main track","number":560,"pages":{"first":4009,"last":4017},"keywords":["Natural Language Processing: Natural Language Semantics","Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications: Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications","Natural Language Processing: Resources and Evaluation"],"videos":[],"references":[{"position":1,"raw":"[Apresjan, 1974] Ju D Apresjan. 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