The Semantic Web Linker: a Multilingual and Multisource Framework

In this demonstration we present the Semantic Web Linker (SWL), a framework for helping Name Entity Recognition (NER) procedures. The strength of the SWL is the integration of data coming from different Web sources, such as Wikipedia and DBpedia. The SWL also provides a multilingual repository, in the sense that every entity is associated to its synonyms and translations in many languages. Furthermore, the SWL manages a classification of entities through their hierarchical categorization. The SWL can be browsed through a Web interface