| Challenge: | Existing knowledge bases focus on static entities such as people, locations and organizations. |
| Approach: | They propose a new knowledge base resource called EventWiki which concentrates on major events . they show that EventWiki is a very useful resource for information extraction regarding events in NLP . |
| Outcome: | The proposed resource is the first knowledge base resource of major events. |
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