Unsupervised Biographical Event Extraction Using Wikipedia Traffic

Guidelines and a Corpus for Extracting Biographical Events

Despite biographies are widely spread within the Semantic Web, resources and approaches to automatically extract biographical events are limited. Such limitation reduces the amount of structured, machine-readable biograp…

Wikibio: a Semantic Resource for the Intersectional Analysis of Biographical Events

Biographical event detection is a relevant task for the exploration and comparison of the ways in which people's lives are told and represented. In this sense, it may support several applications in digital humanities an…

Unsupervised Discovery of Biographical Structure from Text

We present a method for discovering abstract event classes in biographies, based on a probabilistic latent-variable model. Taking as input timestamped text, we exploit latent correlations among events to learn a set of e…

Biographical: A Semi-Supervised Relation Extraction Dataset

Extracting biographical information from online documents is a popular research topic among the information extraction (IE) community. Various natural language processing (NLP) techniques such as text classification, tex…

Recognizing Biographical Sections in Wikipedia