experiment with person disambiguation from "entity-linking" literature

[rahulbot]

We only disambiguate places right now, even though we turn other entity types as well. I ran into this recent paper on SWAT - A System for Detecting Salient Wikipedia Entities in Texts, which tries to identify salient entities by linking them to Wikipedia entries (and lots more after that). While the live demo of SWAT didn't work well for me in terms of the salience aspect of news articles, we should check out some of the "entity linking" tools it links to.

• TagMe
• ADIA
• DBpedia spotlight
• Illinois Wikifier
• Wikipedia Miner

I couldn't find links for the other two "salience" tools they mention: CMU-Google and SEL. Maybe those were just internal projects without public-facing APIs / code?

[rahulbot]

moved to the correct repo: https://github.com/mitmedialab/CLIFF/issues/57