Interpreting Open-Domain Modifiers: Decomposition of Wikipedia Categories into Disambiguated Property-Value Pairs (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing knowledge repositories rely on Wikipedia for core sets of topics and knowledge assertions. |
| Approach: | They propose an open-domain method for automatically annotating modifier constituents (20th-century’) within Wikipedia categories with properties (date of birth). |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves precision and recall over a set of Wikipedia categories. |
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