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DBpedia spotlight: shedding light on the web of documents

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Pablo N. Mendes,

Andrés García-Silva,

Christian BizerAuthors Info & Claims

I-Semantics '11: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Semantic Systems

Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/2063518.2063519

Published: 07 September 2011 Publication History

Abstract

Interlinking text documents with Linked Open Data enables the Web of Data to be used as background knowledge within document-oriented applications such as search and faceted browsing. As a step towards interconnecting the Web of Documents with the Web of Data, we developed DBpedia Spotlight, a system for automatically annotating text documents with DBpedia URIs. DBpedia Spotlight allows users to configure the annotations to their specific needs through the DBpedia Ontology and quality measures such as prominence, topical pertinence, contextual ambiguity and disambiguation confidence. We compare our approach with the state of the art in disambiguation, and evaluate our results in light of three baselines and six publicly available annotation systems, demonstrating the competitiveness of our system. DBpedia Spotlight is shared as open source and deployed as a Web Service freely available for public use.

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I-Semantics '11: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Semantic Systems

September 2011

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University of Leipzig - Germany
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Stefanie Lindstaedt
Know Center Graz - Austria
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