Taking DBpedia Across Borders: Building the Serbian Chapter (original) (raw)

With the emergence of Linked Data, DBpedia has steadily grown to become one of the largest and most important structured knowledge sources we know of today. Adopting Wikipedia’s practice of entrusting the community with most of the work, the DBpedia internationalization committee has made a major step towards the move from unstructured to structured knowledge on the Web. Still, with new languages come new challenges. In this paper, we inspect some common obstacles that need to be tackled in order to add one more language to this popular data hub, but also some that haven’t been encountered before in this domain. More specifically, we explore the digraphic nature of the Serbian language, analyze the state of the DBpedia Extraction Framework with respect to its support for languages that use multiple scripts, and propose solutions towards overcoming this problem. Finally, we deploy the first digraphic DBpedia edition, taking the leading position amongst all DBpedia versions in the per...