WikiSense

Supersense Tagging Named Entities on Wikipedia

Joseph Chee Chang, Richard Tsai, Jason S. Chang. PACLIC 2009

We introduced a method for classifying named-entities into broad semantic categories in WordNet. We extracted rich features from Wikipedia, allowing us to classify named-entities with high precision and coverage. The result is a large scale named-entity semantic database with 1.2 million entries and over 95% accuracy, covering 80% of all named-entities found on Wikipedia.

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a minimally supervised method for learning to classify named-entity titles in a given encyclopedia into broad semantic categories in an existing ontology. Our main idea involves using overlapping entries in the encyclopedia and ontology and a small set of 30 handed tagged parenthetic explanations to automatically generate the training data. The proposed method involves automatically recognizing whether a title is a named entity, automatically generating two sets of training data, and automatically building a classification model for training a classification model based on textual and non-textual features. We present WikiSense, an implementation of the proposed method for extending the named entity coverage of WordNet by sense tagging Wikipedia titles. Experimental results show WikiSense achieves accuracy of over 95% and near 80% applicability for all NE titles in Wikipedia. WikiSense cleanly produces over 1.2 million of NEs tagged with broad categories, based on the lexicographers’ files of WordNet, effectively extending WordNet to form a very large scale semantic category, a potentially useful resource for many natural language related tasks.

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WikiID    Supersense     PE          NE                                   Note
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11983070  person         None        Johnny Cash                          singer
203407    person         None        Celine Dion                          singer
2773076   group          None        Guns N' Roses                        band

945778    location       None        Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park
951038    location       None        Linbian, Pingtung                    name of city

19299838  communication  None        Cape No. 7                           movie
543675    person         None        Jay Chou                             singer

1374293   group          None        National Chung Hsing University
2012972   group          None        Yuan Ze University

412376    animal         butterfly   Queen                                namd of speices
42010     group          band        Queen                                name of band
10309519  communication  magazine    Queen                                name of maagazine
559004    artifcact      automobile  Queen                                car model name
718750    communication  album       Queen                                music album
570546    person         Snow White  Queen                                fictional character
130425    artifcact      TTC         Queen                                subway station
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PE, parenthetic explanations, see Wikipedia guideline on resolving ambiguous titles.

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Citation

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Chang, J., Tsai, R. T.-H., & Chang, J. S. (2009).
WikiSense: Supersense Tagging of Wikipedia Named Entities Based WordNet.
In Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC) (72–81)
Hong Kong, China.

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@inproceedings{Chang-EtAl:2009:PACLIC2009,
  author = {Chang, Joseph and Tsai, Richard Tzong-Han and Chang, Jason S.},
  title = {WikiSense: Supersense Tagging of Wikipedia Named Entities Based WordNet},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC)},
  year = {2009},
  month = {dec},
  address = {Hong Kong, China},
  pages = {72--81},
  url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/Y09-1009}
}