Aldo Gangemi, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, Valentina Presutti, Francesco Draicchio, Alberto Musetti and Paolo Ciancarini, Automatic typing of DBpedia entities, in Proceedings of the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012), Boston, US, November, 2012. [PDF(local)], [PDF(online)]

Abstract:
We present Tipalo, an algorithm and tool for automatically typing DBpedia entities. Tipalo identifies the most appropriate types for an entity by interpreting its natural language definition, which is extracted from its corresponding Wikipedia page abstract. Types are identified by means of a set of heuristics based on graph patterns, disambiguated to WordNet, and aligned to two top-level ontologies: WordNet supersenses and a subset of DOLCE+DnS Ultra Lite classes. The algorithm has been tuned against a golden standard that has been built online by a group of selected users, and further evaluated in a user study.

BibTex:

    @InProceedings { iswc2012paper-research-13,
      author = { Aldo Gangemi, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, Valentina Presutti, Francesco Draicchio, Alberto Musetti and Paolo Ciancarini },
      title = { Automatic typing of DBpedia entities },
      booktitle = { Proceedings of the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) },
      address = {Boston, US},
      month = { November },
      year = { 2012 },
    }

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