NER as a gateway drug to the Linked Data cloud

Application of Named-Entity Recognition on cultural heritage metadata

Simon Hengchen, Max De Wilde & Seth van HoolandUniversité libre de Bruxelles – Belgium

DHBeneluxThe Hague

13 June 2014

Youth christian qqch

Placeholder taille corpus

Interesting entity : Jacques Cartier

Unique identifier : a URI (which is also a URL)   http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jacques_Cartier

≠http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jacques_Cartier_(jeweler)

URI

social security number

85.03.02-141.53

URL

address

Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 501050 Brussels

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cartier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cartier

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jacques_Cartier

http://dbpedia.org/page/Jacques_Cartier

“One link to rule them all”

Wiki vs google:

screenshot de chaque documentation ensemble cfr viaf

PREFIX db­owl: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>

SELECT DISTINCT ?person WHERE {<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jacques_Cartier>         db­owl:occupation ?job .?person db­owl:occupation ?job .?person db­owl:abstract ?biography .FILTER regex(?biography, "Canada") }

graph

978-1783289080 978-1856049641

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