Hi, I have just started my PhD research on synchronizing knowledge between language versions of semantically-annotated Wikipedia (suggesting updates and corrections in individual versions based on the consensus knowledge). One of the problems is to obtain (or create) semantic annotation in a couple of languages, ideally the four most popular ones on Wikipedia: English, German, French, and Polish.
By browsing through the semediawiki-devel archives, I've noticed Markus' post from February 2 where he mentions semi-automatic annotation of Wikipedia. Do you intend to annotate any other language than English (like German)? Myself, I'm preparing to annotate a copy of the Polish version using SMW, and possibly the French one too. It would be good to do the annotations in a coherent way, so that our effort could be reused elsewhere. If you are interested in such co-operation, there is a range of technical questions: which MW version to do you plan to use, which SMW version? Which Wikipedia snapshot do you work on? Do you intend to update your copy with fresh Wikipedia content? If so, how? Would you be interested in setting up interwiki links between our sites? Note that I don't want to agree on a common ontology, just on the technical things. I'd like to reproduce the chaos that is likely to emerge when each Wikipedia starts the semantic annotation on its own. "Aligning" knowledge from multiple not-entirely-compatible ontologies is a much more interesting research problem. Regards, Lukasz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
