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title: "Automatic Construction and Evaluation of a Large Semantically Enriched Wikipedia"
authors:
  - "Alessandro Raganato"
  - "Claudio Delli Bovi"
  - "Roberto Navigli"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2016/411"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2016/0411.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2016
pages: "2894-2899"
track: ""
keywords:
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# Automatic Construction and Evaluation of a Large Semantically Enriched Wikipedia

Alessandro Raganato, Claudio Delli Bovi, Roberto Navigli

*Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 2894-2899.

## Abstract

The hyperlink structure of Wikipedia constitutes a key resource for many Natural Language Processing tasks and applications, as it provides several million semantic annotations of entities in context. Yet only a small fraction of mentions across the entire Wikipedia corpus is linked. In this paper we present the automatic construction and evaluation of a Semantically Enriched Wikipedia in which the overall number of linked mentions has been more than tripled solely by exploiting the structure of Wikipedia itself and the wide-coverage sense inventory of BabelNet. As a result we obtain a sense-annotated corpus with more than 200 million annotations of over 4 million different concepts and named entities. We then show that our corpus leads to competitive results on multiple tasks, such as Entity Linking and Word Similarity.