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DBpedia Spotlight

This is the main page for the DBpedia Spotlight wiki.

If you are a user, you may want to check:

Web Application: we prepared a HTML+Javascript interface to show you how DBpedia Spotlight works: http://spotlight.dbpedia.org/demo/
Web Service: RESTful interface that takes text as input and returns annotated text as output.
Would you like to install it in your server? See: Installation

If you are a developer:

If you are a researcher:

If you are a Google Summer of Code student:

The best way to get help with DBpedia Spotlight is to send a message to our mailing list at [email protected].

You can also join the #dbpedia-spotlight IRC channel on Freenode. We also listen to Tweets.

We'd love if you gave us some feedback.

The DBpedia Spotlight team includes the names cited below. Individual contributions are acknowledged in the source code and publications.

Pablo Mendes (Freie Universität Berlin), Jun 2010-present.

Max Jakob (Freie Universität Berlin), Jun 2010-Sep 2011, Apr 2012-present.

Jo Daiber (Charles University in Prague), Mar 2011-present.

Prof. Dr. Chris Bizer (Freie Universität Berlin), supervisor, Jun 2010-present.

Andrés García-Silva (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Jul-Dec 2010.

Rohana Rajapakse (Goss Interactive Ltd.), Oct-2011, Jun-Jul2012.

Iavor Jelev, May-Jun 2012.

Google Summer of Code Students

This work has been funded by:

Neofonie GmbH, a Berlin-based company offering leading technologies in the area of Web search, social media and mobile applications. (Jun 2010-Jun 2011)
The European Commission through the project LOD2 - Creating Knowledge out of Linked Data. (Jun 2010-present)

DBpedia Spotlight - Shedding Light on the Web of Documents

Project

Statistical backend

Lucene backend

Developers