GERBIL
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<i>General Entity Annotator Benchmark</i>

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### General Information

This project is a benchmarking platform for entity annotation and disambiguation tools. It also has been extended for Question Answering (see [`QuestionAnswering` branch](https://github.com/dice-group/gerbil/tree/QuestionAnswering)).

For further information, please take a look into the [wiki](https://github.com/AKSW/gerbil/wiki) or visit the [project home page](http://aksw.org/Projects/GERBIL.html).

### How to cite

If you are using GERBIL for your research, we would be happy to be cited.

For the Knowledge Extraction GERBIL, please cite the journal paper ["GERBIL–Benchmarking Named Entity Recognition and Linking Consistently"](https://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/html/journals/semweb/RoderUN18)

For the Question Answering GERBIL, please cite the journal paper ["Benchmarking Question Answering Systems"](https://dblp.uni-trier.de/search?q=Benchmarking%20question%20answering%20systems)

Other papers, like the WWW paper can be found at: [http://aksw.org/Projects/GERBIL.html](http://aksw.org/Projects/GERBIL.html)