Title
Distinguishing between instances and classes in the wikipedia taxonomy
Abstract
This paper presents an automatic method for differentiating between instances and classes in a large scale taxonomy induced from the Wikipedia category network. The method exploits characteristics of the category names and the structure of the network. The approach we present is the first attempt to make this distinction automatically in a large scale resource. In contrast, this distinction has been made in WordNet and Cyc based on manual annotations. The result of the process is evaluated against ResearchCyc. On the subnetwork shared by our taxonomy and ResearchCyc we report 84.52% accuracy.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
ESWC
large scale taxonomy,category name,large scale resource,automatic method,wikipedia category network,wikipedia taxonomy,manual annotation
Field
DocType
Volume
Noun phrase,Data mining,Information retrieval,Computer science,Computational linguistics,Exploit,WordNet,Subnetwork
Conference
5021
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0302-9743
3-540-68233-3
31
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.58
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cäcilia Zirn11397.61
Vivi Nastase252341.30
Michael Strube32142137.32