GERBIL is a general Linked Data benchmarking system (formerly used for entity annotation systems based on the BAT-Framework). GERBIL offers an easy-to-use web-based platform for the agile comparison of annotators using multiple datasets and uniform measuring approaches. To add a tool to GERBIL, all the end user has to do is to provide a URL to a REST interface to its tool which abides by a given specification. The integration and benchmarking of the tool against user-specified datasets is then carried out automatically by the GERBIL platform.

• If you want to know more, please have a look at our novel paper about GERBIL at the Semantic Web Journal
• We also used GERBIL for benchmarking system for question answering

Available Experiment Types

Long term stability

The idea of GERBIL emerged in September 2014 when a couple of articles released at the same time claimed to be state-of-the-art. Especially, those approaches were not easily comparable due to their heterogeneous set-up, dataset use and evaluation metrics. Thus, we decided to build GERBIL and extend the BAT-Framework to break the barriers for people not able to write source code.

GERBIL is now more than 3 years old and has hosted more than 50.000 experiments. It is currently hosted at the research and development unit of the University Leipzig Computation Center and the Paderborn University which keep daily backups to ensure long-term quotability.

The survey data from our paper can be found at GERBIL's GitHub repository.

Contributors

• Ciro Baron (University Leipzig, Germany)
• Andreas Both (R&D, Unister GmbH, Germany)
• Martin Brümmer (University Leipzig, Germany)
• Diego Ceccarelli (Unversity Pisa, Italy)
• Marco Cornolti (University of Pisa, Italy)
• Didier Cherix (R&D, Unister GmbH, Germany)
• Bernd Eickmann (R&D, Unister GmbH, Germany)
• Paolo Ferragina (University of Pisa, Italy)
• Christiane Lemke (R&D, Unister GmbH, Germany)
• Andrea Moro (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
• Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
• Francesco Piccinno (University of Pisa, Italy)
• Giuseppe Rizzo (EURECOM, France)
• Harald Sack (HPI Potsdam, Germany)
• René Speck (Institute for Applied Informatics, Germany)
• Raphaël Troncy (EURECOM, France)
• Jörg Waitelonis (HPI Potsdam, Germany)
• Lars Wesemann (R&D, Unister GmbH, Germany)