Abstract: DBpedia is widely used by researchers as a mean of accessing Wikipedia in a standardized way. In this paper it is characterized from the point of view of questions answering system. Simple implementation of such system is also presented. The paper also characterizes alternatives to DBpedia in form of OpenCyc and YAGO knowledge bases. A comparison between DBpedia and those knowledge bases is presented.
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WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-0832 / 2224-3402, Volume 12, 2015, Art. #15
Tomasz Boiński, Adrian Ambrożewicz, Julian Szymański, "DBpedia As a Formal Knowledge Base – An Evaluation," WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, vol. 12, pp. 161-166, 2015, DOI:
Tomasz Boiński, Adrian Ambrożewicz, Julian Szymański. DBpedia As a Formal Knowledge Base – An Evaluation.
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications. 2015;12:161-166.