no code implementations • ACL 2017 • Ellie Pavlick, Marius Pa{\c{s}}ca
We present a method for populating fine-grained classes (e. g., {``}1950s American jazz musicians{''}) with instances (e. g., Charles Mingus ).
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Amit Gupta, Francesco Piccinno, Mikhail Kozhevnikov, Marius Pa{\c{s}}ca, Daniele Pighin
Guided by multiple heuristics, a unified taxonomy of entities and categories is distilled from the Wikipedia category network.
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Marius Pa{\c{s}}ca
This tutorial examines the characteristics, advantages and limitations of Wikipedia relative to other existing, human-curated resources of knowledge; derivative resources, created by converting semi-structured content in Wikipedia into structured data; the role of Wikipedia and its derivatives in text analysis; and the role of Wikipedia and its derivatives in enhancing information retrieval.