Two is bigger (and better) than one: The wikipedia bitaxonomy project

52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 945-955

  Flati, Tiziano ^a   Vannella, Daniele ^a   Pasini, Tommaso ^a   Navigli, Roberto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

AUTOMATIC CREATIONS; DBPEDIA; STATE OF THE ART; WIKIPEDIA;

TAXONOMIES;

EID: 84906928671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/p14-1089     Document Type: Conference Paper

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