DBpedia Spotlight: Shedding Light on the Web of Documents

Authors

Pablo N. Mendes, Wright State University - Main Campus
Max Jakob
Andres Garcia-Silva
Christian Bizer

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

9-2011

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.

Comments

Presented at the 7th International Conference on Semantic Systems, Graz, Austria, September 7-9, 2011.

Repository Citation

Mendes, P. N., Jakob, M., Garcia-Silva, A., & Bizer, C. (2011). DBpedia Spotlight: Shedding Light on the Web of Documents. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Semantic Systems, 1-8.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/knoesis/1034

DOI

10.1145/2063518.2063519