- DBpedia Spotlight
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DBpedia Spotlight is a tool for annotating mentions of DBpedia resources in text, providing a solution for linking unstructured information sources to the Linked Open Data cloud through DBpedia. DBpedia Spotlight performs named entity extraction, including entity detection and Name Resolution (a.k.a. disambiguation). It can also be used for building your solution for Named entity recognition, amongst other information extraction tasks.
The project was started in June 2010 at the Free University of Berlin by the researchers from the Web Based Systems Group. The objective of DBpedia Spotlight is to provide a flexible solution that can be customized for many use cases. Instead of focusing on a few entity types, the project strives to support the annotation of all 3.5M entities and concepts from more than 320 classes in DBpedia.
DBpedia Spotlight is publicly available as a Web Service for testing purposes or a Java/Scala API licensed via Apache License. The DBpedia Spotlight distribution also includes a jQuery plugin[1] that allows developers to annotate pages anywhere on the Web by adding one line to their page. Clients are also available in Java or PHP.[2]
The tool currently only handles English language, although developers have reported [1] that work on the internationalization of DBpedia Spotlight has started.
The documentation of the tool is divided in a Users Manual, Technical Documentation and Installation. All pages can be accessed from http://spotlight.dbpedia.org.
Known Uses
While still a relatively young project, Web developers and researchers across the world have started adopting the tool.
- EuropeanaConnect Media Annotation Prototype
- Twitter Swarm NLP Chrome Extension
- Simple API Test Tool
- Topica: University of Sheffield's entry to AIMashup2011
- RDFaCE, an RDFa Content Editor based on TinyMCE
- NERD, a framework for comparing Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation tools
- Simon, R., Jung, J., Haslhofer, B. The YUMA Media Annotation Framework. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24469-8_43
- Fabian Abel, Ilknur Celik, Geert-Jan Houben and Patrick Siehndel. ((http://fabianabel.de/papers/2011-wis-twitter-faceted-search-iswc.pdf Leveraging the Semantics of Tweets for Adaptive Faceted Search on Twitter)). In the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011), Bonn, Germany.
- Kristian Slabbekoorn, Laura Hollink, Geert-Jan Houben. ((http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org/fileadmin/iswc/Papers/Workshops/DeRiVE/derive2011_submission_15.pdf Domain-aware Matching of Events to DBpedia)). Accepted for publication at the DeRiVE workshop on Detection, Representation, and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web (ISWC2011), Bonn, Germany.
References
- ^ Mendes, Pablo. "DBpedia Spotlight jQuery Plugin". jQuery Plugins. http://plugins.jquery.com/project/dbpedia-spotlight. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ^ DiCiuccio, Rob. "PHP Client for DBpedia Spotlight". GitHub. https://github.com/robdiciuccio/Simple-API-Test-Tool/blob/master/DBpediaSpotlight.php.
External links
- Project Website: http://spotlight.dbpedia.org.
- Source code: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbp-spotlight/
- Zaino, Jennifer. The Spotlight’s on DBpedia. Article on SemanticWeb.com. February 21, 2011.
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