Hey Germaine,
I cannot help you with the Lucene version, but for the statistical version
there is a separate tool for adapting the existing Spotlight models (e.g.
adding new data):
https://github.com/idio/spotlight-model-editor
Best,
Joachim
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Goetzelmann, Germaine (IPE) <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear spotlight developers,
>
> I am working at usage of DBpedia Spotlight with other data than
> dbpedia/wikipedia information. Instead, I feed the lucene index with
> surface forms and context information I retrieve from some authority file.
> (I work with german language, fyi, if this makes any difference at any
> point)
> At the moment I use this attempt for historical persons and it shows some
> improvement already, compared with spotlight annotation with dbpedia links.
>
> But the main problem at the moment seems to be the annotation of persons,
> when only the last name and some context information (profession and a
> place of activity e.g.) is provided by the text, but not a full name. My
> current surface forms are containing the full name, e.g. 'Alan Turing'
> because last name only surface forms would map some of the surface forms to
> several thousand entities (I have also tried this at some point, and, not
> surprising, the amount of false positives exploded).
>
> >From my point of view this seems to be an issue with the lucene back end
> in general rather than a specific problem with my data. By looking at the
> different web services I also get the feeling that the statistical back end
> might handle this problem better?
> I haven't looked into the statistical version yet, so I don't know
> anything about how it works in general, about language support,
> adaptability (I know there is an i18n tutorial similar to the lucene one,
> which I used for adaption) and so on. Therefore, before I start this, I
> would love to know, if you would even recommend switching to the
> statistical version with this rather specific problem.
>
> thanks in advance, cheers,
> Germaine
>
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