Which Are the Low-Resource Languages of the Semantic Web?
Abstract
Emerging digital technologies are exacerbating the existing divide in Open Access Data (OAD) between high-and low-resource languages, excluding many communities from the global digital transformation. Multilingual Linked Open Data Knowledge Graphs (LOD KGs) could contribute to mitigating this divide through cross-lingual transfer; however, no clear quantitative definition of low-resource languages has yet been established in the context of LOD KGs. In this poster, we present a methodology to analyze the distribution of languages across LOD KGs and propose a preliminary multi-level categorization based on DBpedia, BabelNet, and Wikidata. This categorization is leveraged to bring a formal definition of low-, high-, and medium-resource languages that could be later leveraged to select cross-lingual transfer candidates.
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@article{arxiv.2605.05929,
title = {Which Are the Low-Resource Languages of the Semantic Web?},
author = {Ndeye-Emilie Mbengue and Pierre Monnin and Miguel Couceiro and Fabien Gandon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.05929},
year = {2026}
}
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ESWC 2026 - 23rd European Semantic Web Conference, May 2026, Dubrovnik, Croatia