[Dbpedia-announcements] GSoC Project Announcement

[Vincent B. <vin...@fu...>]

Hello everyone,

my name is Vincent and I will work on the project " A Hybrid 
Classifier/Rule-based Event Extractor for DBpedia" during this year's 
Google Summer Of Code.
I'm happy to work for DBpedia Spotlight and with you during the summer. 
You can find the abstract to my project below.

Sincerly,
Vincent Bohlen

Abstract:
In modern times the amount of information published on the internet is 
growing to an immeasurable extent. Humans are no longer able to gather 
all the available information by hand but are more and more dependent on 
machines collecting relevant information automatically. This is why 
automatic information extraction and in especially automatic event 
extraction is important. In this project I will implement a system for 
event extraction using Classification and Rule-based Event Extraction. 
The underlying data for both approaches will be identical. I will gather 
wikipedia articles and perform a variety of NLP tasks on the extracted 
texts. First I will annotate the named entities in the text using named 
entity recognition performed by DBpedia Spotlight. Additionally I will 
annotate the text with Frame Semantics using FrameNet frames. I will 
then use the collected information, i.e. frames, entities, entity types, 
with the aforementioned two different methods to decide if the 
collection is an event or not.