Cross-lingual type inference

B Xu, Y Zhang, J Liang, Y Xiao, S Hwang…�- …�Conference on Database�…, 2016 - Springer
International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, 2016Springer
Entity typing is an essential task for constructing a knowledge base. However, many non-
English knowledge bases fail to type their entities due to the absence of a reasonable local
hierarchical taxonomy. Since constructing a widely accepted taxonomy is a hard problem,
we propose to type these non-English entities with some widely accepted taxonomies in
English, such as DBpedia, Yago and Freebase. We define this problem as cross-lingual type
inference. In this paper, we present CUTE to type Chinese entities with DBpedia types. First�…
Abstract
Entity typing is an essential task for constructing a knowledge base. However, many non-English knowledge bases fail to type their entities due to the absence of a reasonable local hierarchical taxonomy. Since constructing a widely accepted taxonomy is a hard problem, we propose to type these non-English entities with some widely accepted taxonomies in English, such as DBpedia, Yago and Freebase. We define this problem as cross-lingual type inference. In this paper, we present CUTE to type Chinese entities with DBpedia types. First we exploit the cross-lingual entity linking between Chinese and English entities to construct the training data. Then we propose a multi-label hierarchical classification algorithm to type these Chinese entities. Experimental results show the effectiveness and efficiency of our method.
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