Predicting wikipedia infobox type information using word embeddings on categories

Wikipedia has emerged as the largest multilingual, web based general reference work on the Internet. A huge amount of human resources have been invested in the creation and update of Wikipedia articles which are ideally complemented by so-called infobox templates defining the type of the underlying article. It has been observed that the Wikipedia infobox type information is often incomplete and inconsistent due to various reasons. However, the Wikipedia infobox type information plays a fundamental role for the RDF type information of Wikipedia based Knowledge Graphs such as DBpedia. This stimulates the need of always having the correct and complete infobox type information. In this work, we propose an approach to predict Wikipedia infobox types by using word embeddings on categories of Wikipedia articles, and analyze the impact of using minimal information from the Wikipedia articles in the prediction process.