This looks very interesting!
Is this a thesaurus that can be used for translation of words across
languages?
Is there some way to quickly have a demo or view the data?
I browsed some files, and I see entries of the kind:

:xf5bfa ww:displayLabel "de:Feliner_Diabetes_mellitus" .
:xf5bfa ww:type wwct:OTHER .
:xf5bfa rdf:type skos:Concept .
:xf5bfa skos:inScheme <
http://brightbyte.de/vocab/wikiword/dataset/*/animals:thesaurus

which tells me that Diabetes Mellitus of a feline is a concept... I was
interested in the animal thesaurus as a way to translate animal names across
languages... there are a lot of files, and I don't know if I am looking at
the right ones.  Perhaps if you pointed us to the most interesting /
understandable datasets, it would be very useful.

I am sorry if the above remarks seem superficial; I cannot read German well
enough to read dissertations in it...

Best, Luca.

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:54 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/<http://aspra27.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/%7Edkinzler/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
>
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