WikiTaxonomy: A Large Scale Knowledge Resource

Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Michael Strube

Abstract: We present a taxonomy automatically generated from the system of categories in Wikipedia. Categories in the resource are identified as either classes or instances and included in a large subsumption, i.e. isa, hierarchy. The taxonomy is made available in RDFS format to the research community, e.g. for direct use within AI applications or to bootstrap the process of manual ontology creation.