This is a Django web application that performs named entity tagging and linking in Esports text (and specifically DOTA2, League of Legends, CS:GO and Overwatch). Our refined ontology contained 5 kinds of entities: GAME, TOURN, ORG, PLAYER, and AVATAR, defined as below:

• GAME: The esports title.
• TOURN: An esports event or league.
• ORG: The "team" in which name players play for.
• PLAYER: Individuals who play and compete on the game as a career (in other words, “pro players”).
• AVATAR: The character that a player controls. In CS:GO, it is the item that a player uses.

The search bar accepts a URL or text snippet and the web application taggs the above entities from the text extracted. Each entity links to another page that shows its related information in Liquipedia with a URL. A mention and its alias will have the same entry and URL in Liquipedia which suggests succesful named entity linking.

To get a copy of this code repository, run the following command

git clone https://github.com/YifanLeng/Esports_NER.git

The following additional python packages are required to run the web app.

Django==2.2.6
spacy==2.1.8
beautifulsoup4==4.6.3

Use pip to install the dependencies. Replace package with the package name and version specified in prerequisite.

pip install package

cd Esports_NER
python manage.py runserver

The website is currently deployed on http://lengyifan.pythonanywhere.com/

• Django - The web framework

• Yifan Leng

This project is licensed under the MIT License