Update on the Wikipedia Biographies

In the previous blog post, we described how we retrieved Chinese biographies by the use of a machine learning-classifier. Since then, we updated the collection with English biographies that are linked to the Chinese pages, resulting in a total number of biographies is 338,857 (228,144 in Chinese and 110,713 in English), and derived two forms of metadata from the texts: named entities and inter-language links. Named entities are text elements that constitute everything that can referred to w..