Towards Amharic DBpedia

hizclick · February 11, 2025, 1:47pm

Towards Amharic DBpedia

Description

DBpedia is a collaborative initiative focused on extracting structured information from Wikipedia and presenting it as Linked Open Data. This is a continuation of GSoC 2024. In GSoC 2024, we successfully integrated Amharic parsers and extractors into the DBpedia chapter. However, due to time constraints, we could not add sufficient mappings to extract data from Wikipedia. This year, we plan to add more new mappings, build a robust landing page for presentation, and clean the existing data.

Goal

The primary goal of this project is to enhance the Amharic DBpedia chapter:

Extend the existing Amharic DBpedia chapter in the DBpedia knowledge graph with data from Amharic Wikipedia.
Add additional mappings.
Extend the DBpedia extraction framework to extract citations, disambiguation, personal data, topical concepts, anchor text, and shared resources from Amharic Wikipedia.
Create an automatic extraction framework and mapping.
Make the knowledge graph available to end users via a web page.
Create documentation for processes, tools, and techniques used for sustainable development, following FAIR principles.

Impact

Enable users to access and utilize structured data in Amharic DBpedia more effectively.
This will promote linguistic diversity and support research, education, and applications that rely on multilingual knowledge graphs.
NLP downstream tasks: Apply knowledge graphs from DBpedia to NLP applications such as machine translation and sentiment analysis.
Community engagement: Encourage the community to contribute and collaborate in sustaining and expanding Amharic DBpedia.