Evaluating entity linking with wikipedia

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 194, Issue , 2013, Pages 130-150

  Hachey, Ben ^a   Radford, Will ^b,c   Nothman, Joel ^b,c   Honnibal, Matthew ^d   Curran, James R ^b,c  

^a THOMSON REUTERS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Capital Markets CRC ^*  (Australia)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disambiguation; Information extraction; Named Entity Linking; Semi structured resources; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

DISAMBIGUATION; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; NAMED ENTITIES; SEMI-STRUCTURED; WIKIPEDIA;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84870298772     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2012.04.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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