Title
Language-Independent Type Inference Of The Instances From Multilingual Wikipedia
Abstract
Extracting knowledge from Wikipedia has attracted much attention in recent ten years. One of the most valuable kinds of knowledge is type information, which refers to the axioms stating that an instance is of a certain type. Current approaches for inferring the types of instances from Wikipedia mainly rely on some language-specific rules. Since these rules cannot catch the semantic associations between instances and classes (i.e. candidate types), it may lead to mistakes and omissions in the process of type inference. The authors propose a new approach leveraging attributes to perform language-independent type inference of the instances from Wikipedia. The proposed approach is applied to the whole English and Chinese Wikipedia, which results in the first version of MulType (Multilingual Type Information), a knowledge base describing the types of instances from multilingual Wikipedia. Experimental results show that not only the proposed approach outperforms the state-of-the-art comparison methods, but also MulType contains lots of new and high-quality type information.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.4018/IJSWIS.2019040102
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON SEMANTIC WEB AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Attribute Extraction, Knowledge Base, Random Graph Walk, Semantic Web, Type Inference
Information retrieval,Computer science,Type inference
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
2
1552-6283
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
20
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tianxing Wu1183.75
Guilin Qi296188.58
Bin Luo3155.96
Lei Zhang4175.71
Haofen Wang584358.85