Things and strings: Improving place name disambiguation from short texts by combining entity Co-occurrence with topic modeling

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 10024 LNAI, Issue , 2016, Pages 353-367

  Ju, Yiting ^a   Adams, Benjamin ^b   Janowicz, Krzysztof ^a   Hu, Yingjie ^c   Yan, Bo ^a   McKenzie, Grant ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

DBpedia; LDA; Linked Data; Natural language processing; Place name disambiguation; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DBPEDIA; LINKED DATUM; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PLACE NAME DISAMBIGUATION; WIKIPEDIA;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84997522751     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49004-5_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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