Nice job, please add it to WP:ACST so it can be known to a wider audience.
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Daniel Kinzler 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.
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