Path-based semantic relatedness on linked data and its use to word and entity disambiguation

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Abstract

Semantic relatedness and disambiguation are fundamental problems for linking text documents to the Web of Data. There are many approaches dealing with both problems but most of them rely on word or concept distribution over Wikipedia. They are therefore not applicable to concepts that do not have a rich textual description. In this paper, we show that semantic relatedness can also be accurately computed by analysing only the graph structure of the knowledge base. In addition, we propose a joint approach to entity and word-sense disambiguation that makes use of graph-based relatedness. As opposed to the majority of state-of-the-art systems that target mainly named entities, we use our approach to disambiguate both entities and common nouns. In our experiments, we first validate our relatedness measure on multiple knowledge bases and ground truth datasets and show that it performs better than related state-of-the-art graph based measures. Afterwards, we evaluate the disambiguation algorithm and show that it also achieves superior disambiguation accuracy with respect to alternative state-ofthe- art graph-based algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Semantic Web – ISWC 2015 - 14th International Semantic Web Conference, Proceedings
EditorsMarcelo Arenas, Oscar Corcho, Elena Simperl, Markus Strohmaier, Mathieu d’Aquin, Kavitha Srinivas, Paul Groth, Michel Dumontier, Jeff Heflin, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Steffen Staab
PublisherSpringer-Verlag
Pages442-457
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783319250069
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Event14th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2015 - Bethlehem, United States
Duration: 11 Oct 201515 Oct 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9366
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBethlehem
Period11/10/1515/10/15

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