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Two Is Bigger (and Better) Than One: the Wikipedia Bitaxonomy Project Tiziano Flati, Daniele Vannella, Tommaso Pasini and Roberto Navigli Dipartimento di Informatica ` Sapienza Universita di Roma flati,vannella,navigli@di.uniroma1.it p.tommaso@ Abstract in these resources range from domain-specific, as in Freebase (Bollacker et al., 2008), to unspec- We present WiBi, an approach to the ified relations, as in BabelNet. However, un- automatic creation of a bitaxonomy for like the case with smaller manually-curated re- Wikipedia, that is, an integrated taxon- sources such as WordNet (Fellbaum, 1998), in omy of Wikipage pages and categories. many large automatically-created resources the We leverage the information available in taxonomical information is either missing, mixed either one of the taxonomies to reinforce across resources, e.g., linking Wikipedia cate- the creation of the other taxonomy. Our gories to WordNet synsets as in YAGO, or coarse- experiments show higher quality and cov- grained, as in DBpedia whose hypernyms link to a erage than state-of-the-art resources like small upper taxonomy. DBpedia, YAGO, MENTA, WikiNet and Current approaches in the literature have mostly WikiTaxonomy. WiBi is available at focused on the extraction of taxonomies from the . network of Wikipedia categorie