Jiaqi Zhu


2025

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Tracing Organisation Evolution in Wikidata
Marieke van Erp | Jiaqi Zhu | Vera Provatorova
Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge

Entities change over time, and while information about entity change is contained in knowledge graphs (KGs), it is often not stated explicitly. This makes KGs less useful for investigating entities over time, or downstream tasks such as historical entity linking. In this paper, we present an approach and experiments that make explicit entity change in Wikidata. Our contributions are a mapping between an existing change ontology and Wikidata properties to identify types of change, and a dataset of entities with explicit evolution information and analytics on this dataset.

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Philosophising Lexical Meaning as an OntoLex-Lemon Extension
Veruska Zamborlini | Jiaqi Zhu | Marieke van Erp | Arianna Betti
Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge: The 5th OntoLex Workshop

OntoLex-Lemon is a model for representing lexical information, focusing on the use of lexical entries in texts rather than their definitions. This work proposes an extension to the model that aims to capture the definition of senses attributed to lexical entries. We explicitly represent a conceptual setup authored by an agent that operates on lexical content. It either proposes new senses for existing lexical entries in a language or coins new terms to express proposed senses. It provides textual and/or formal definitions to senses/concepts, and can serve as an interpretation of other senses/concepts through rephrasing, translation, formalization, or comparison. Because a conceptual setup and its interpretations may not be unanimously accepted, it is important to support the selection of relevant meanings, as for example, those proposed by a certain author. We illustrate the application of our proposed extension with two case studies, one about the philosophical definition of the concept of idea and its interpretations, and one about historical attributions of meaning to the Dutch East India Company (VOC).