Improved text annotation with Wikipedia entities
Christos H. Makris, Yannis Plegas, Evangelos Theodoridis · 2013
Text annotation is the procedure of initially identifying, in a segment of text, a set of dominant in meaning words and later on attaching to them extra information (usually drawn from a concept ontology, implemented as a catalog) that expresses their conceptual content in the current context. Attaching additional semantic information and structure helps to represent, in a machine interpretable way, the topic of the text and is a fundamental preprocessing step to many Information Retrieval tasks like indexing, clustering, classification, text summarization and cross-referencing content on web pages, posts, tweets etc.