This is RPI BLENDER Chinese slot filling system. Definition of slot filling: Slot filling aims at collecting from a large-scale multi-source corpus the values (“slot fillers”) for certain attributes (“slot types”) of a query entity, which is a person or some type of organization.[1]

[1] Dian Yu, Hongzhao Huang, Taylor Cassidy, Heng Ji, Chi Wang, Shi Zhi, Jiawei Han, Clare Voss and Malik Magdon-Ismail. The Wisdom of Minority: Unsupervised Slot Filling Validation based on Multi-dimensional Truth-Finding. (COLING 2014)

• The system takes KBP slot filling query format xml file as input.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<kbpslotfill>
  <query id="SF14_CMN_TRAINING_001">
    <name>郭全宝</name>
    <enttype>PER</enttype>
    <docid>cmn-NG-4-76762-9532908</docid>
    <beg>2536</beg>
    <end>2538</end>
  </query>
  <query id="SF14_CMN_TRAINING_006">
    <name>华泰财产保险股份有限公司</name>
    <enttype>ORG</enttype>
    <docid>CNS_CMN_20100325.1032</docid>
    <beg>478</beg>
    <end>489</end>
  </query>
</kbpslotfill>

• Outputs are KBP slot filling '.tab' file and HTML file.

1. Clone the project.

2. Requirements:

   • JDK 7 (1.7) or higher.
   • Ant
   • Python 2.7

3. Environment variables setting:

   • Pylucene requires ant. If ant is not at '/usr/bin/ant', please go to 'externals/pylucene-4.10.1-1/Makefile' and change 'ANT' to where you installed ant.

   • Default python path is '/usr/bin/python', if you are using Python virtual environment or you installed python in other directory, please go to 'externals/pylucene-4.10.1-1/Makefile' and change 'PREFIX_PYTHON' to directory of your python or python virtual environment.

This work was supported by the US ARL NS-CTA No. W911NF-09-2-0053, DARPA DEFT No. FA8750-13-2-0041, NSF Awards IIS-1523198, IIS-1017362, IIS-1320617, IIS-1354329 and HDTRA1-10-1-0120, gift awards from IBM, Google, Disney and Bosch. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation here on.

• Boliang Zhang [zhangb8@rpi.edu]