Extraction of Biographical Data from Wikipedia

Robert Viseur

2013

Abstract

Using the content of Wikipedia articles is common in academic research. However the practicalities are rarely analysed. Our research focuses on extracting biographical information about personalities from Belgium. Our research is divided into three sections. The first section describes the state of the art for data extraction from Wikipedia. A second section presents the case study about data extraction for biographies of Belgian personalities. Different solutions are discussed and the solution adopted is implemented. In the third section, the quality of the extraction is discussed. Practical recommendations for researchers wishing to use Wikipedia are also proposed on the basis of our case study.

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Viseur R. (2013). Extraction of Biographical Data from Wikipedia . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Data Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DATA, ISBN 978-989-8565-67-9, pages 248-252. DOI: 10.5220/0004595302480252


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@conference{data13,
author={Robert Viseur},
title={Extraction of Biographical Data from Wikipedia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Data Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DATA,},
year={2013},
pages={248-252},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004595302480252},
isbn={978-989-8565-67-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Data Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DATA,
TI - Extraction of Biographical Data from Wikipedia
SN - 978-989-8565-67-9
AU - Viseur R.
PY - 2013
SP - 248
EP - 252
DO - 10.5220/0004595302480252