Integrate Wikidata to SciSpaCy EntityLinker

[lubianat]

SciSpaCy is a package linked to the spaCy package for Natural Language Processing in python.

The code has an "Entity Linker" that links entities to different databases of concepts, such as the Unified Medical Language System.

One nice integration would be to link Wikidata to their framework.

It is kinda of a side project, but might improve the integration of Wikidata to the scientific NLP community.

[arupgsh]

There is an article in Medium suggesting that SpaCy 3 will introduce Wikidata based named-entity recognition.
Source: https://medium.com/@mgalkin/spacy-irl-2019-and-wikidata-based-ner-64a799c17823

[jvfe]

There is an article in Medium suggesting that SpaCy 3 will introduce Wikidata based named-entity recognition.
Source: https://medium.com/@mgalkin/spacy-irl-2019-and-wikidata-based-ner-64a799c17823

Looks like it's quickly becoming a reality! Take a look:

• Their entity linking 101 shows linking to wikidata entities (e.g. Q7259)
• Also, this pull request on their main repository and the issue it references.

I haven't looked into it very carefully but it does seem promising.