The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal

2015, 9 : 799-806
Published online 2015 July 31. DOI: 10.2174/1874110X01509010799
Publisher ID: TOCSJ-9-799

Semantic Relationships Extraction for Entities in WIS

Zhang Yan and Zhang Rui
School of Computer.Science and Technology, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Jinan, 250014, P.R. China.

ABSTRACT

Web Integration System (WIS) provides abundant structured information about entities in a domain. Interrelationships for entities in WIS are valuable for further analysis and decision-making. It is not rare that an entity pair has more than one semantic relationship. However, existing researches on relation extraction ignore this situation and they assume that one entity pair has only one semantic relationship. This paper focuses on mining multi-semantic relationships for a giving entity in WIS. We first extract related entities and corresponding contexts from web texts, then propose a clustering algorithm to cluster the related entities into different subsets, where each subset represents a semantic relationship to the entity. Finally we adjust the result clusters by merging semantic similar clusters together. The highlight of the algorithm is that we cluster the entities based on every single context instead of the overall contexts related. We evaluate our method by comparing it with the state-of-the-art approach using real-world dataset generated by search engine. The results show that the proposed approach is efficient in mining multi-semantic relationships for the giving entity from WIS.

Keywords:

Relation extraction, named entity, Web Integration System, relation clustering.