Hidekazu Oiwa, Yoshihiko Suhara, Jiyu Komiya, Andrei Lopatenko
Entity population, a task of collecting entities
that belong to a particular category, has attracted
attention from vertical domains. There is still a
high demand for creating entity dictionaries in
vertical domains, which are not covered by existing knowledge bases. We develop a lightweight
front-end tool for facilitating interactive entity
population. We implement key components necessary for effective interactive entity population: 1) GUI-based dashboards to quickly modify an entity dictionary, and 2) entity highlighting on documents for quickly viewing the current
progress. We aim to reduce user cost from beginning to end, including package installation and
maintenance. The implementation enables users
to use this tool on their web browsers without
any additional packages — users can focus on
their missions to create entity dictionaries. Moreover, an entity expansion module is implemented
as external APIs. This design makes it easy to
continuously improve interactive entity population pipelines. We are making our demo publicly
available (http://bit.ly/luwak-demo).