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Semantic Wikipedia

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Markus Krötzsch,

Denny Vrandecic,

Rudi StuderAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '06: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web

Pages 585 - 594

https://doi.org/10.1145/1135777.1135863

Published: 23 May 2006 Publication History

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Wikipedia is the world's largest collaboratively edited source of encyclopaedic knowledge. But in spite of its utility, its contents are barely machine-interpretable. Structural knowledge, e.,g. about how concepts are interrelated, can neither be formally stated nor automatically processed. Also the wealth of numerical data is only available as plain text and thus can not be processed by its actual meaning.We provide an extension to be integrated in Wikipedia, that allows the typing of links between articles and the specification of typed data inside the articles in an easy-to-use manner.Enabling even casual users to participate in the creation of an open semantic knowledge base, Wikipedia has the chance to become a resource of semantic statements, hitherto unknown regarding size, scope, openness, and internationalisation. These semantic enhancements bring to Wikipedia benefits of today's semantic technologies: more specific ways of searching and browsing. Also, the RDF export, that gives direct access to the formalised knowledge, opens Wikipedia up to a wide range of external applications, that will be able to use it as a background knowledge base.In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and possible uses of this extension.

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Reviewer: Michael Lesk

This proposal to add formally identified data to Wikipedia correctly suggests the vast amount of data mining that could be done with semantically labeled data. The authors address issues such as the use of numerical units and methods of agreeing on the names of data labels. Will people actually enter large amounts of data__?__ We don?t know yet. This paper should be read by designers of volunteer or collaborative systems, and would be valuable to those studying cooperative work. Designers can find plans for implementing typed links and similar structures in a way used by others, and those curious about cooperation can judge the work required to label material compared with the benefits. The paper is straightforward and easily readable. Online Computing Reviews Service

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DOI:10.1145/1135777

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