This paper introduces a new resource called EventWiki which is, to the best of our knowledge, the first knowledge base resource of major events. In contrast to most existing knowledge bases that focus on static entities such as people, locations and organizations, our EventWiki concentrate on major events, in which all entries in EventWiki are important events in mankind history. We demonstrate that EventWiki is a very useful resource for information extraction regarding events in Natural Language Processing (NLP), knowledge inference and automatic knowledge base construction.
@InProceedings{GE18.213, author = {Tao Ge and Lei Cui and Baobao Chang and Zhifang Sui and Furu Wei and Ming Zhou}, title = "{EventWiki: A Knowledge Base of Major Events}", booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {May 7-12, 2018}, address = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9}, language = {english} }
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