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We describe an approach taken for automatically associating entries from an on-line encyclopedia with concepts in an ontology or a lexical semantic network. It has been tested with the Simple English Wikipedia and WordNet, although it can be used with other resources. The accuracy in disambiguating the sense of the encyclopedia entries reaches 91.11% (83.89% for polysemous words). It will be applied to enriching ontologies with encyclopedic knowledge.
This work has been sponsored by CICYT, project number TIC2002-01948.
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Ruiz-Casado, M., Alfonseca, E., Castells, P. (2005). Automatic Assignment of Wikipedia Encyclopedic Entries to WordNet Synsets. In: Szczepaniak, P.S., Kacprzyk, J., Niewiadomski, A. (eds) Advances in Web Intelligence. AWIC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3528. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11495772_59
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