Really interesting! Can you post an HTML or text only version so I could read it using Google Translate?
At WikiMania 07, I presented a paper that looked at how useful wiki resources like wikipedia, wiktionary and OmegaWiki might be for the needs of translators. http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:AD1 One of the things we found was that in isolation, each of those resources at best covered ~30% of the translation difficulties typically encountered by professional translators for the English-French pair. But combined, they were able to cover ~50%. We also found that the presentation of information on Wikipedia and Wiktionary was not suited for the needs of translators. Based on those two findings, we proposed the idea of a robot capable of pulling cross-lingual information from those resources and presenting in a way that is better suited for the needs of translators. Sounds like you may have just done this! Is there a web interface to this multilingual resource that I could try? Alain Désilets > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wiki- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Kinzler > Sent: May 30, 2008 5:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] thesis: automatically building a > multilingualthesaurus from wikipedia > > 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. > > > Enjoy, > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
