JWKTL – Java Wiktionary Library
Version 0.1
Wiktionary is a multilingual, web-based, freely available dictionary,
thesaurus and phrase book, designed as the lexical companion to Wikipedia.
Lately, it has been recognized as a promising lexical semantic resource
for natural language processing applications.
JWKTL is a Java-based API that enables efficient programmatic access to
the information contained in the English and German language editions of
Wiktionary:
* glosses
* part of speech
* etymology
* examples
* quotations
* references
* word language
* translations
* internal and external links
* categories
* related words
* antonyms, holonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, synonyms,
troponyms, "see also" terms, characteristic word combinations,
coordinate terms, derived terms, descendants, etymologically related terms
JWKTL is freely available for non-profit and non-commercial use from the
following website:
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwktl
It was developed by the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab at the
Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany.
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de
Reference publication:
Torsten Zesch, Christof Müller, Iryna Gurevych: Extracting Lexical
Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary . In Proceedings of the
Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). European
Language Resources Association, 2008.
Hello All
I'm happy to announce the MediaWiki Developer Meet-Up will happen April 3.-5. in
Berlin, at the c-base. The event is for everyone who works on MediaWiki, writes
extensions, builds bots, writes scripts for the toolserver, or is otherwise
interested in the technical aspects of Wikimedia. We are happy that we can now
have the meet-up after our plans for 25C3 and FOSDEM failed. If you want to come
to the Developer Meetup, please sign up at
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Developer_meet-up_2009>.
The event will take place in parallel to the Wikimedia Foundation's board
meeting and chapter meeting, so there will be a lot of Wikimedians in Berlin at
the time. We plan to have a party to bring everyone together and give an
opportunity for developers, board members and chapter people to mingle.
The meet-up will be a loose BacCamp-like event so topics and schedule are
largely up to you. The goal is to get to know new aspects of MediaWiki and
Wikimedia and to develop ideas on how we can make things even better. And of
course to have a lot of fun with wiki hackers from around the world!
-- daniel
We're currently working on a grant proposal that is related to the
usability for uploading and embedding media files to Wikimedia
Commons. (This is an area that we will likely not be able to address
in detail as part of the Stanton project, so we're trying to parcel it
into a separate project.) As part of this proposal, I would like to
make a compelling case that pictures and other media uploaded to
Commons benefit from strongly from the increased visibility,
especially through Wikipedia articles. I'd also like to demonstrate
that images get used in multiple languages and multiple projects.
The simplest research approach that any volunteer could take is to
take a sample (say 50 featured media and 50 random ones) and to
catalog in a spreadsheet usage across Wikimedia projects, using the
CheckUsage tool. But I'm sure there are other approaches - both
quantitative and qualitative - that might work as well, e.g. based on
Wikipedia article traffic statistics.
I'd love to see some volunteer input into this question, which
essentially boils down: Why is Wikimedia Commons awesome, and why is
it worth investing in to make it even better? I've started a page on
Meta here if you want to contribute ideas on-wiki:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Case_for_Commons
But feel free to e-mail me off-list as well. :-)
Thanks for any and all help,
Erik
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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
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1st Call for Papers WEBCENTIVES'09
1st International Workshop on Motivation and Incentives on the Web
Located at the 18th Int. World Wide Web Conference WWW2009
April 20 - 24, 2009, Madrid, Spain
http://webcentives09.sti-innsbruck.at/
Submission deadline for full papers: March 1st, 2009 (12.00 AM, GMT)
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Content
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The Web 2.0 movement has brought a new generation of usability and
socio-technical change to the Web. At the same time, several so-called
Web 2.0 applications had enormous success: Wikipedia, del.icio.us,
Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Geni – to name just a few. Having
differing objectives, they all have something in common: huge amounts
of enthusiastic users contributing and creating a plethora of content.
The high acceptance of these applications with Web users from all over
the world prove that they are usable and – more importantly – provide
some kind of benefit. Each of the applications has incentive structure
well in place, triggering user interest and involvement.
The aim of the workshop is to address the following questions around
incentives and motivation of Web applications: what is the motivation
for a user to (install and) use a tool? Which incentive structures can
be applied to the Web, which cannot? Moreover, incentives are a
crucial topic for future Web generations: Web paradigms, like the
Semantic Web or the 3D Web, that are novel and unfamiliar to end
users, aim to involve wide user bases. WEBCENTIVES will attract
contributions analyzing, applying, and designing incentive structures
for Web applications. We want to emphasize that the workshop also aims
at failures, i.e. cases where incentives failed, in order to
understand why they failed and to disseminate the lessons learned.
Format
WEBCENTIVES will provide a mix of invited talks, paper presentations
selected from submitted papers by a programme committee, demo
sessions, and enough time for discussions.
The workshop will be open to all interested parties and aims at
bringing together
* researchers investigating content authoring, from collaborative
knowledge construction, metadata annotation, social Web, Web 2.0
phenomena, incentives, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation,
* practitioner groups, and
* industry parties that make use of social applications in
enterprise environments.
The eventual schedule will be fixed after the selection of the papers and demos.
Objectives
The objective of WEBCENTIVES is to foster the thinking process around
incentives, motivations, and benefits of Web applications. We aim at
submissions that
* Analyse incentives of existing Web applications,
* Apply incentives to Web applications, and
* Propose and create new incentive structures for Web applications.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Motivations and incentives of Web 2.0 applications
* Cost – benefit analyses
* Suggestions how those motivations can be applied in Web applications
* Incentive structures both within enterprise intranets and the open Web
* Games for generating content
* Tools exploiting collective intelligence and the "Wisdom of Crowds"
* Community-driven applications
* Monetary and non-monetary rewards
* Social applications in general
* Empirical studies on the usage of Web 2.0 or social Semantic Web
applications
* Social rewards
* Monetary incentives and rewards
* Understanding and creating social reward mechanisms
* Reputation systems and Identity and Social networks for reputation
Review process
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We aim at three different kinds of submission: (1) research papers of
the length of 8 pages (ACM style) presenting mature work, early
prototypes and methodologies, (2) position papers of the length of 4
pages presenting early work and elaborated ideas, and (3) demo
outlines of the length of 2 pages.
The submitted papers will be reviewed by 3 reviewers each in a
semi-blind review process. We will use the Easychair submission system
for that purpose.
Incentives for attending and submitting to the workshop
-----------------------------------
All accepted papers will published with the conference. We will also
invite a selection of the accepted papers to be published at a special
issue of the International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data
Mining (IJKEDM).
Furthermore we plan to invite a proliferate speaker to present as an
invited speaker to the workshop to provide an excellent forum for the
discussion of this important topic.
It has also to be noted that the workshop's location is Madrid, which is
famous for its beautiful parks and museums. April is a wonderful time to
enjoy Spain.
Program Committee
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* Sofia Angeletou, Open University, UK
* Anupriya Ankolekar, HP, US
* Sinuhe Arroyo, University of Alcala, Spain
* Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, DE
* Phoebe Ayers, University of California, USA
* Jie Bao, RPI, USA
* Chris Bizer, FU Berlin, DE
* Kurt Bollacker, Metaweb, US
* danah boyd, University of California in Berkeley, US
* Dan Brickley, The FOAF Project, UK
* Andrew Lih, University of Hong Kong, China
* Tom Heath, Talis, UK
* Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, DE
* David Huynh, Metaweb, US
* Eyal Oren, VU Amsterdam, NL
* Valentina Presutti, CNR, IT
* Mathias Schindler, Wikimedia, DE
* Andreas Schmidt, FZI, DE
* Hideaki Takeda, University of Tokyo, NII, JP
* David Weinberger, Harvard, US
Organizers
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* Elena Simperl - STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria
* Katharina Siorpaes - STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria
* Denny Vrandecic - AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
* Tim Bartel - Wikia Inc., Country Manager Germany
Target audience
-----------------------------------
The workshop will be open to all interested parties and aims at
bringing together
* researchers investigating content authoring, from collaborative
knowledge construction, metadata annotation, social Web, Web 2.0
phenomena, incentives, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation,
* practitioner groups, and
* industry parties that make use of social applications in
enterprise environments.
Important Dates
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* Deadline for submissions: March 1st, 2009 (12.00 AM, GMT)
* Notification of acceptance: April 1st, 2009
* Camera-ready versions: April 10th, 2009
* WWW'09 Conference: April 20th-24th, 2009
* Workshop Day: April 20th or 21st, 2009 (TBD)
Contact
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Katharina Siorpaes
STI Innsbruck, Austria
Email: katharina (dot) siorpaes (at) sti2 (dot) at
Getting any reliable estimates on our community has always been
difficult. However, recently, in official Wikimedia Foundation
announcements and such (ex.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Letter/en?utm_source=2008_jimmy_…)
the number "a global community of more than 150,000 volunteers"
appeared. I would very much like to now - what date is it based on?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians gives 8.5 million
registered accounts. Of course many of those are duplicates, but then
there are many unregistered contributors... still, my own guesstimate
would be at at least half a million - if not several millions - of
people who had edited Wikipedia (in any language, ove the past ~8
years). This guesstimate is based on analysis of a small sample of
editors I know and how many accounts they've created (which for a vast
majority is ONE). Sure, there are sockpuppet vandals, but... do we
really have 150,000 volunteers, maybe as much legitimate socks/bots, and
over 8 millions vandal sockpuppet accounts???
--
Piotr Konieczny
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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3rd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2009)
in conjunction with
12th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2009)
Poznan, Poland
April 27, 28 or 29, 2009
http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/12th_bis/wscfp.php?i=37&ws=saw2009
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Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2009
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In recent years, the Web has moved from a simple one-way communication
channel, extending traditional media, to a complex "peer-to-peer"
communication space with a blurred author/audience distinction and new
ways to create, share, and use knowledge in a social way.
This change of paradigm is currently profoundly transforming most areas
of our life: our interactions with other people, our relationships, ways
of gathering information, ways of developing social norms, opinions,
attitudes and even legal aspects, as well as ways of working and doing
business.
The change also raises a strong need for theoretical, empirical and
applied studies related to how people may interact on the Web, how they
actually do so, and what new possibilities and challenges are emerging
in the social, business and technology dimensions.
Following the two previous events, the goal of the 3rd Workshop is to
bring researchers and practitioners together to explore the issues and
challenges related to social aspects of the Web.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
* People on the social Web
* Individuals on the Web (identity, privacy, incentives, activity
models, trust and reputation, ...)
* Communities on the Web (roles, leadership, social norms and
conflicts, types of communities, ...)
* Collaboration on the Web (content and data development and
maintenance, decision taking ...)
* On-line and off-line life (mixed interaction models, on-line vs.
off-line communities, ... )
* Business activities in the social Web (sales, exchanges,
word-of-mouth, recruiting, marketing, ...)
* Data and content on the social Web
* Social content organization (tagging, classification,
recommendations, collaborative filtering, ...)
* Content dynamics (content flow and evolution, mashups, comments,
collaborative creation, ...)
* Semantic social Web (standards, annotation of social content/data,
ontology learning, ...)
* Data and social network portability (standards, policies,
technologies, licenses, ...)
* Social software and services
* Specific types of social software (social networks, blogs, wikis,
resources sharing, ...)
* Development (architectures, technologies, platforms,
infrastructures, ...)
* Adoption (critical mass problem, socio-technical gap, data and
social network migration, ...)
* Alternative user interaction models (games, mobile, mixed reality,
...)
* Social software in the enterprise (knowledge management, CRM,
collaborative software, ...)
* Business models of social services (pricing, cost models, customer
relation, content acquisition, ...)
* Mining the social Web
* Mining user-generated content (opinion, comments, rankings, forums,
...)
* Mining the social graph (collaborative filtering, social network
analysis, ...)
* Mining activity patterns (access, used features, participation,
interactions, ...)
* Entity-centric content integration (on people, experts, objects,
companies, locations, ...)
* Social Web mining in business (for marketing, products design,
customer support, ...)
SUBMISSION
* Long papers: max. 12 pages
* Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages
* Demo papers: max. 4 pages
Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP
template available from
http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-487211-0.
Submission system is available at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saw2009.
Papers approved for presentation at SAW 2009 will be published in BIS
2009 workshop proceedings, as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in
Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
All authors of accepted papers as well as other participants will be
asked to read accepted papers abstracts before the workshop (papers will
be available on-line in advance) to facilitate discussion.
Workshop participants will be also invited to take part in the BIS
conference and other BIS workshops.
IMPORTANT DATES
* February 1, 2009 - submission deadline for papers
* February 22, 2009 - notification of acceptance/rejection
* March 15, 2009 - submission of final papers
* April 27, 28 or 29, 2009 - the workshop
ORGANIZERS
* Poznan University of Economics, Department of Information Systems
(http://kie.ae.poznan.pl/)
CHAIRS
* Dominik Flejter
* Tomasz Kaczmarek
* Marek Kowalkiewicz
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Krisztian Balog, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
* Simone Braun, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany
* John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Tanguy Coenen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Sebastian Dietzold, University of Leipzig, Germany
* Davide Eynard, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
* Dominik Flejter, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
* Adam Jatowt, Kyoto University, Japan
* Tomasz Kaczmarek, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
* Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research Brisbane, Australia
* Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Science, Poland
* Katharina Siorpaes, STI, University of Innsbruck, Austria
* Jie Tang, Tshingua University, China
* Celine van Damme, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Valentin Zacharias, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany
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Dominik Flejter < http://dominik.flejter.net/ >
Poznan University of Economics
Department of Information Systems < http://www.kie.ae.poznan.pl/ >
SAW 2009 PC Chair