WCCL Relation – a Toolset for Rule-based Recognition of Semantic Relations Between Named Entities
Michał Marcińczuk · 2013
In this paper we cover the problem of recognition of semantic relations between proper names (PNs) in running text. We focus on the manual rule creation approach and discuss to what extent the existing tools can be used for this task. As a result of our initial research we developed a rule-based toolset for recognition of relations between PNs called WCCL Relation. The toolset is built on the top of WCCL Match — a language for text annotation, which is a part of a WCCL framework (an open source, released under the GNU LGPL 3.0). The WCCL Relation toolset is language independent and can be used for almost any natural language and language tagset. We present several use cases and sample rules for recognition of semantic relations in Polish texts.