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Extraction of lethal events from Wikipedia and a semantic repository

Magnus Norrby
Department of Computer Science, Lund University, Sweden

Pierre Nugues
Department of Computer Science, Lund University, Sweden

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Published in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic resources and Semantic Annotation for Natural Language Processing and the Digital Humanities at NODALIDA 2015, Vilnius, 11th May, 2015

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 112:5, p. 28–35

NEALT Proceedings Series 27:5, p. 28–35

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Published: 2015-05-06

ISBN: 978-91-7519-049-5

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

This paper describes the extraction of information on lethal events from the Swedish version of Wikipedia. The information searched includes the persons’ cause of death, origin, and profession. We carried out the extraction using a processing pipeline of available tools for Swedish including a part-of-speech tagger, a dependency parser, and manually-written extraction rules. We also extracted structured semantic data from the Wikidata store that we combined with the information retrieved from Wikipedia. Eventually, we gathered a database of facts that covers both sources: Wikipedia and Wikidata.

Keywords

semantic extraction; knowledge graph; entity repository

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