DBpedia - A large-scale, multilingual knowledge base extracted from Wikipedia

Semantic Web

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 167-195

  Lehmann, Jens ^a   Isele, Robert ^g   Jakob, Max ^e   Jentzsch, Anja ^d   Kontokostas, Dimitris ^a   Mendes, Pablo N ^f   Hellmann, Sebastian ^a   Morsey, Mohamed ^a   Van Kleef, Patrick ^c   Auer, Sören ^a,h   Bizer, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c OpenLink Software   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e Neofonie   (Germany)

^f WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Brox IT Solutions GmbH   (Germany)

^h FRAUNHOFER IAIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Knowledge extraction; Linked Data; multilingual knowledge bases; RDF; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922756960     PISSN: 15700844     EISSN: 22104968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/SW-140134     Document Type: Article

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