On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My diploma thesis about a system to automatically build a multilingual > thesaurus > from wikipedia, "WikiWord", is finally done. I handed it in yesterday. My > research will hopefully help to make Wikipedia more accessible for automatic > processing, especially for applications natural languae processing, machine > translation and information retrieval. What this could mean for Wikipedia is: > better search and conceptual navigation, tools for suggesting categories, and > more. > > Here's the thesis (in German, i'm afraid): > <http://brightbyte.de/DA/WikiWord.pdf> > > Daniel Kinzler, "Automatischer Aufbau eines multilingualen Thesaurus durch > Extraktion semantischer und lexikalischer Relationen aus der Wikipedia", > Diplomarbeit an der Abteilung für Automatische Sprachverarbeitung, Institut > für Informatik, Universität Leipzig, 2008. > > For the curious, http://brightbyte.de/DA/ also contains source code and data. > See <http://brightbyte.de/page/WikiWord> for more information. > > Some more data is for now avialable at > <http://aspra27.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~dkinzler/rdfdumps/>. This includes > full SKOS dumps for en, de, fr, nl, and no covering about six million > concepts. > > The thesis ended up being rather large... 220 pages thesis and 30k lines of > code. I'm plannign to write a research paper in english soon, which will give > an > overview over WikiWord and what it can be used for. > > The thesis is licensed under the GFDL, WikiWord is GPL software. All data > taken > or derived from wikipedia is GFDL.
Congratulations! Looks nice (quickly scanning over the pages). Magnus _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
