David Urbansky

University of Technology Dresden, Department of Computer Science

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Title: Automatic Construction of a Semantic,Domain-Independent Knowledge Base

Abstract. In this paper, we want to show which diculties arise when
automatically constructing a domain-independent knowledge base from
the web. We show possible applications for such a knowledge base to
emphasize its importance. Current knowledge bases often use manually-
built patterns for extraction and quality assurance which does not scale
well. Our contribution to the community will be a technique to auto-
matically assess extracted information to ensure high quality of the in-
formation and a method of how the knowledge base can be kept up to
date. The research builds upon the existing WebKnox system for Web
Knowledge Extraction which is able to extract named entities and facts
from the web. This is a position paper.