KBP at TAC

Knowledge Base Population (KBP) is a evaluation track at Text Analysis Conference (TAC), with the goal of explore extraction ability of automated systems to discover information about named entities with reference to an external knowledge source.

Using basic schema for persons, organizations, and locations, nodes in an ontology must be created and populated using unstructured information found in text. A collection of Wikipedia Infoboxes will serve as a rudimentary initial knowledge representation, as the evaluation dataset.

Task Description

Entity Linking

Align names to entities in the knowledge.

Slot Filling

Mine information about entities from free text.