ParaNames: A Massively Multilingual Entity Name Corpus

AbstractWe present ParaNames, a Wikidata-derived multilingual parallel name resource consisting of names for approximately 14 million entities spanning over 400 languages. ParaNames is useful for multilingual language processing, both in defining tasks for name translation tasks and as supplementary data for other tasks. We demonstrate an application of ParaNames by training a multilingual model for canonical name translation to and from English.