"Distinguishing between Instances and Classes in the Wikipedia Taxonomy"


The talk will present an automatic approach for differentiating
between instances and classes in a large scale taxonomy induced from
the Wikipedia category network. The methods exploit characteristics
of the category names and the structure of the network. The presented approach
is the first attempt to make this distinction automatically
in a large scale resource. In contrast, this distinction has been made
in WordNet and Cyc based on manual annotations. The result of the
process is evaluated against ResearchCyc. On the subnetwork shared by
our taxonomy and ResearchCyc we report 84.52% accuracy.