Combining NLP And Semantics For Mining Software Technologies From Research Publications

Hélène de Ribaupierre, Francesco Osborne, Enrico Motta
2016 Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web - WWW '16 Companion  
The community of natural language processing (NLP) has developed a variety of methods for extracting and disambiguating information from research publications. However, they usually focus only on classic research entities such as authors, affiliations, venues, references and keywords. We propose a novel approach, which combines NLP and semantic technologies for generating from the free text of research publications an OWL ontology describing a number of software technologies used or introduced
more » ... y researchers, such as applications, systems, frameworks, programming languages, and formats. The method was tested on a sample of 300 publications in the Semantic Web field, yielding promising results.
doi:10.1145/2872518.2889358 dblp:conf/www/RibaupierreOM16 fatcat:3bv5jbdj7fetrmajhcneyrdzv4