Re: Overcoming the Brittleness Bottleneck using Wikipedia: Enhancing Text Categorization with Encyclopedic Knowledge

On 20/07/06, Evgeniy Gabrilovich 
<gabr-FrESSTt7Abv7r6psnUbsSmZHpeb/A1Y/@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Following the suggestion of Jimmy Wales, we would like to announce a new paper
> that uses Wikipedia as a very large-scale repository of world knowledge
> for information retrieval tasks. To date, Wikipedia was mostly used by human
> users
> (readers), and we hope our research opens a promising new direction of
> automatically
> using the knowledge from Wikipedia for tasks that normally require human-level
> intelligence. In our ongoing research, we plan to explore using Wikipedia for
> additional text processing tasks, such as Web search and word sense
> disambiguation.
>
> Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Shaul Markovitch (2006).
> ''Overcoming the Brittleness Bottleneck using Wikipedia:
>   Enhancing Text Categorization with Encyclopedic Knowledge''.
> Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
> (AAAI-06), pp. 1301-1306.
> http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/papers/wiki-aaai06.pdf
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Evgeniy.

I seem to be always advertising these people on these mailing lists,
but have you heard of "Semantic MediaWiki"? They are developing a
version of MediaWiki with rich semantic features. If this were applied
to Wikipedia it would open out the use of Wikipedia in ways that you
suggest.

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