This paper was posted to Dbpedia-discussion mailing list by Sören Auer
and it seems and relevant enough to forward (forgive me if you
disagree).
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From: Sören Auer <auer(a)informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
Date: 9 Nov 2007 14:10
Subject: [Dbpedia-discussion] Paper: Autonomously Semantifying Wikipedia
To: dbpedia-discussion(a)lists.sourceforge.net
Hi all,
the paper "Autonomously Semantifying Wikipedia" [1] by Fei Wu and Daniel
S. Weldjust won the best paper prize at CIKM (ACM Sixteenth Conference
on Information and Knowledge Management) in Lisbon, Portugal.
I just had a short glance at the paper. Their work seems to apply
Machine Learning techniques in order to improve the coverage and quality
of Wikipedia. Regarding the relationship with Wikipedia they say:
The DBpedia system which extracts information from existing infoboxes
within articles and encapsulate them in a semantic form for query. In
contrast, KYLIN populates infoboxes with new attribute values.
Cheers,
Sören
[1] http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/weld/papers/wu-cikm07.pdf
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Dear fellow wiki researchers,
I thought you might be interested in joining the wiki-translation community which is being launched today. See details below.
Best regards,
Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada
Chair, WikiSym 2007
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This is an invitation to join the wiki-translation community:
www.wiki-translation.com
Feel free to forward it to anyone who might be interested.
Wiki-translation is a community for discussing the impact of the wikipedia phenomenon on the world of translation. It is a place for people who are interested in translation using a massively collaborative wiki paradigm. It is a place where we can exchange best practices and tools for collaborative translation, and learn how to use them to improve translation quality and productivity.
The community was started in the Fall of 2007, as a result of online and hallway discussions between the following people (in alphabetical order):
* Louise Brunette, Peter Cowen, Alain Désilets, Lucas Gonzalez, Louis-Philippe Huberdeau , S.J. Klein, Nelson Ko, Marc Laporte, Jérémie Leblanc, Thomasz Muldner, Cola Nahaboo, Kizu Naoko,Xavier de Pedro Puente, Sébastien Paquet.
The following is a sample of topics which are deemed relevant:
* Practices and tools for translating any wiki content, including but not limited to Wikipedia pages.
* Practices and tools for translating any content (wiki or not) which is open, constantly evolving and may never reach a final stable state.
* Practices and tools for translating any content using a wiki-like process. By that, we mean a process that presents many of the characteristics of wikis like: open, massively collaborative, asynchronous, loosely coordinated and controlled, volunteer-based, etc....
* Practices and tools for creating and using wiki-like dictionaries and resources (ex: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, OmegaWiki) for the purpose of translating any content (wiki or not).
* Research and development to make any of the above easier and more efficient.
Here is how you can join this community:
1) First, register on the wiki-translation site
* Go to http://www.wiki-translation.com/tiki-register.php
* Fill in the form.
* Note: You do not HAVE to be registered to participate in the community, but registration will make it easier for you and the rest of the community to interact together.
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* Go to http://www.wiki-translation.com/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=2
* Click on the first eye icon (beside New topic button)
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We look forward to your participation, and hope you will find it useful and worthwhile.
Dear All,
we have finally finished a technical report describing in detail the
algorithms we use for the Wikipedia trust coloring (see
http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/). The technical paper not only gives the
algorithms, but describes several ways to quantify notions of text trust for
the Wikipedia, and provides detailed quantiative results on the quality of
our coloring.
The technical report is available here:
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~luca/papers/07/trust-techrep.html
We would of course appreciate comments and feedback. I wish a happy weekend
to you all,
Luca