Erik & I had a good meeting last week with the MacArthur Foundation, who
reiterated their interest in funding research related to Wikipedia and
the other Wikimedia projects. Their primary interest is in developing a
better understanding of the Wikipedia audience (readers), but I believe
they are potentially interested in research into the contributor
community as well.
Our research goals & interests are laid out here
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Research_Goals
It's a pretty full list, but not an exhaustive one. We'd encourage
anyone who wants to conduct research into the Wikimedia projects to
approach MacArthur for funding, and/or talk to us.
Thanks,
Sue
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From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Apr 7, 2008 4:02 PM
Subject: RfC: Wikimedia Foundation Research Goals
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sue & I have drafted a set of research goals that the Wikimedia
Foundation supports. The purpose of the document is to have something
we can point researchers, universities, foundations, and other third
parties to when they ask us: So, what kind of research are you
interested in? Will you support/endorse my research proposal X? In
most cases, we will not actively pursue these goals directly -- we'll
just try to facilitate & endorse research by third parties.
These research goals need to line up with our overall organizational
goals to make sense, so we've tried to map research goals to
organizational goals.
In light of this constraint, please do feel free to make revisions, or
to suggest changes on the discussion page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Research_Goals
It's still a draft looked at by only two people - so we do expect it
to be incomplete. :-)
(BTW - I'm aware that some chapters are pursuing a research agenda on
their own: This is great, and these Foundation goals are in no way
meant to be prescriptive for chapters.)
--
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
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Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
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Hello All!
Inspired by other cities, Copenhagen will also have its own version of
WikiWednesday. Wiki Wednesday is a monthly event to get together wikiers,
wikipedians, wiki-researchers, developpers, bloggers and anyone interested
in wikis, social software and web2.0.
When: 14th of May 2008, at 17:30
Where: Studenterhuset, Købmagergade 52, København K
Distribute the invitation widely! Come and cheer '1st Life'!
MVH, for the KWW organizing committee,
Rut Jesus (PhD student on wikis, center for phil of nature and science
studies, KU)
In contrast to Wikipedia, Wiktionary has received little attention by
the NLP research community so far.
I know of its use for subjectivity and polarity classification (Chesley
et al., 2006), and for diachronic phonology (Bouchard et al., 2007).
Alexandre Bouchard, Percy Liang, Thomas Griffiths, and Dan Klein. 2007.
A probabilistic approach to diachronic phonology. In Proceedings of
the 2007. In Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL, pages 887–896.
Paula Chesley, Bruce Vincent, Li Xu, and Rohini Srihari. 2006.
Using verbs and adjectives to automatically classify blog sentiment.
In Proceedings of AAAI-CAAW-06, the Spring Symposia on Computational
Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs.
If anybody knows of other papers that describe work where Wiktionary has
been used in NLP, I would be happy to hear about it.
At UKP Lab, we have recently used Wiktionary as a lexical semantic resource for
computing semantic relatedness.
Our main findings are:
* Wiktionary offers an astonishing amount of lexical semantic
information, but also poses new challenges due to its collaborative
construction approach and the resulting occasional instance
incompleteness and inconsistency.
* Wiktionary can be used as a substitute for traditional semantic networks
like Princeton WordNet for some tasks, for example computing semantic
relatedness. Somewhat surprisingly, it outperforms traditional wordnets
as well as Wikipedia on this task.
Some recent publications devoted to this issue are:
Zesch, T.; Mueller, C. & Gurevych, I.
Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary.
In Proceedings of the Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC), 2008
Abstract:
Recently, collaboratively constructed resources such as Wikipedia and
Wiktionary have been discovered as valuable lexical semantic knowledge
bases with a high potential in diverse Natural Language Processing (NLP)
tasks. Collaborative knowledge bases however significantly differ from
traditional linguistic knowledge bases in various respects, and this
constitutes both an asset and an impediment for research in NLP. This paper
addresses one such major impediment, namely the lack of suitable
programmatic access mechanisms to the knowledge stored in these large
semantic knowledge bases. We present two application programming interfaces
for Wikipedia and Wiktionary which are especially designed for mining the
rich lexical semantic information dispersed in the knowledge bases, and
provide efficient and structured access to the available knowledge. As we
believe them to be of general interest to the NLP community, we have made
them freely available for research purposes.
and
Zesch, T.; Mueller, C. & Gurevych, I.
Using Wiktionary for Computing Semantic Relatedness.
In Proceedings of AAAI, 2008
Abstract:
We introduce Wiktionary as an emerging lexical semantic resource that can be
used as a substitute for expert-made resources in AI applications. We evaluate
Wiktionary on the pervasive task of computing semantic relatedness for English
and German by means of correlation with human rankings and solving word choice
problems. For the first time, we apply a concept vector based measure to a set
of different concept representations like Wiktionary pseudo glosses, the first
paragraph of Wikipedia articles, English WordNet glosses, and GermaNet pseudo
glosses. We show that: (i) Wiktionary is the best lexical semantic resource in
the ranking task and performs comparably to other resources in the word choice
task, and (ii) the concept vector based approach yields the best results on all
datasets in both evaluations.
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UKP Lab is working on the release of a freely available Java-based API to
access the lexical semantic information contained in Wiktionary.
The release is scheduled for June 2008 at
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/.
There is also a new release of the Java-based API for Wikipedia.
It is much faster now and contains a Mediawiki markup parser that
can be used to analyze the contents of a Wikipedia page. The parser
can also be used stand-alone to analyze further web pages using
MediaWiki markup.
-Torsten
We are pleased to announce WikiXMLDB which allows querying
Wikipedia in XQuery.
http://wikixmldb.dyndns.org
We have parsed English Wikipedia into a well-structured XML
document (21 Gb in size) and loaded it into Sedna XML
database (http://modis.ispras.ru/sedna). With WikiXMLDB
demo you can run predefined or your own XQuery queries via
Web interface.
Querying Wikipedia in XQuery allows you to implement many
interesting applications. Read "Use case" section
(http://wikixmldb.dyndns.org/help/use-cases) for more
details.
Enjoy it!
Maria Grineva
Sedna team
During this Summer Institute, Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia and
creator of Citizendium will give a morning tutorial. Although not focused on
wikis as such, some of you might be interested by the last 4 days of this
Summer Institute on social cognition, which include lectures on knowledge
communities, knowledge production and sharing or collective intelligence, to
name but a few.
So, after visiting Montreal in spring for the RoCoCo and in autumn for the
WikiSym, here is the opportunity to come back for the summer!
http://www.summer08.isc.uqam.ca/
Guillaume
VOIR LA VERSION EN FRANÇAIS PLUS BAS.
>
*** EXTENDED EARLY REGISTRATION: APRIL 23rd ***
A Summer Institute on Social Cognition in Montréal, Canada, from the 28th of
June to th 6th of July.
(A pdf version of our program is directly available at:
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/eteisc/ocs/public/conferences/2/schedConfs/2/pro
gram.pdf )
The Cognitive Sciences¹ Institute organizes in Montreal, Canada, a Summer
Institute to which you can register and receive three (3) credits towards
your degree.
Entitled Minds and Societies, the 2008 Summer Institute will again address
an important current topic in cognitive science: social cognition.
The Institute is gathering leading researchers on the interface and
transition between individual ideas and minds and collective, distributed
ones (biosocial psychology, cognitive anthropology, social neuroscience,
distributed cognition, extended mind philosophy, etc.).
We hope that all will be stimulated by this confluence of perspectives.
Confirmed speakers include (alphabetically): Daniel Batson, Paul Bloom,
Richard Byrne, Angelo Cangelosi, Rosaria Conte, Daniel Dennett, Terrence
Deacon, Merlin Donald, Shimon Edelman, Christian Fellbaum, Rob Goldstone,
Philip Jackson, Frank Keil, Andrew Meltzoff, Élisabeth Pacherie, Jesse
Prinz, Deb Roy, Rebbeca Saxe, Barry Wellman, and many more (see our web
site: http://www.summer08.isc.uqam.ca/).
Our first Summer Institute in Cognitive Science brought together more than
150 local and international participants who met and exchanged ideas on the
topic of categorization. It was a great success according to all involved,
and has spawned an authoritative 32-chapter text on the matter, the Handbook
of Categorization in Cognitive Science, Cohen and Lefebvre (eds.) (2005),
Elsevier.
The advantages of a Summer Institute:
> Classes given by top researchers in their field;
> Meeting high caliber foreign students who share your interests;
> Networking;
> Several related activities which will help develop your knowledge of
> related fields (poster session
> http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/eteisc/ocs/custom/cfp-socialCognition.pdf,
> thematic dinners, etc.);
> A PhD level course during the summer (which can be rare in some
> faculties);
> Getting 3 credits in ten days (+ a paper at your leisure during the
> summer);
The registration process contains one or two steps according to whether you
want to obtain credits or not.
> 1. Anyone wishing to attend the Summer Institute must fill in the form on
> our web site and pay the course fee:
> http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/eteisc/ocs/index.php/eteisc/SS2008/schedConf/re…
> tration
> 2. If additionally you wish to receive credits for attendance and:
>> You are a PhD student from the Université du Québec à Montréal: See your
>> department¹s graduate study advisor (or his/her assistant) and register to
>> one of these classes:
>>> DIC938H-01. Cognition Sociale
>>> PHI9026. Sujets spéciaux
>>> LIN9950. Séminaires thématiques
>>> PSY9517. Problèmes contemporains en psychologie sociale
>> You are a Master¹s level student from the Université du Québec à
>> Montréal: Please write to us (summer08.isc(a)uqam.ca) or speak with your
>> graduate program director. The summer Institute welcomes all graduate
>> students and will adjust required coursework to reflect the student¹s level.
>> You are a student from a Canadian university: Please contact our
>> registrar¹s office: franco-canada(a)regis.uqam.ca.
>> You are a student from the US and abroad: You will simply have to
>> complete a form upon arrival to be admitted as an independent student.
>>
Note that, depending of your situation, additional registration costs may be
charged by UQAM or your own university in order to get these credits.
>>
Please visit our web site to consult the latest program and for any
additional information concerning the Summer Institute:
http://www.summer08.isc.uqam.ca/
The organizing committee.
The Minds and Societies Summer Institute in Cognitive Science
summer08.isc(a)uqam.ca
*** EXTENSION DES TARIFS PRÉFÉRENTIELS POUR INSCRIPTIONS ANTICIPÉES JUSQU¹AU
23 AVRIL ***
Un Institut d¹été sur la cognition sociale à Montréal, Canada, du 28 juin au
6 juillet.
(Une version pdf du programme est accessible directement à l¹adresse
suivante:
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/eteisc/ocs/public/conferences/2/schedConfs/2/pro
gram.pdf )
L¹Institut des Sciences Cognitives organise un Institut d¹été auquel vous
pouvez vous inscrire et recevoir trois (3) crédits. L'Institut d¹été de
2008, intitulé Minds and Societies, traitera cette fois encore d¹une
question importante et d¹actualité en sciences cognitives : la cognition
sociale.
L'institut regroupera les principaux chercheurs à la frontière entre la
cognition individuelle et celle de nature collective et distribuée
(psychologie biosociale, anthropologie cognitive, neurosciences sociales,
cognition distribuée, philosophie de l'esprit étendu, etc.). Nous espérons
que tous seront stimulés par cette convergence de perspectives.
Les conférenciers confirmés incluent (en ordre alphabétique) : Daniel
Batson, Paul Bloom, Richard Byrne, Angelo Cangelosi, Daniel Dennett,
Terrence Deacon, Merlin Donald, Shimon Edelman, Christian Fellbaum, Rob
Goldstone, Philip Jackson, Frank Keil, Andrew Meltzoff, Élisabeth Pacherie,
Jesse Prinz, Deb Roy, Rebbeca Saxe, Barry Wellman, et bien d¹autres, (voir
notre site : http://www.ete08.isc.uqam.ca/).
Notre premier Institut d¹été en sciences cognitives a rassemblé plus de 150
participants locaux et internationaux qui se sont rencontrés et ont échangé
autour de la question de la catégorisation. De l¹avis de tous les
participants, ce premier Institut
d¹été fut un énorme succès, qui a donné naissance à un ouvrage important sur
le sujet, le Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science (sous la
direction d¹Henri Cohen et de Claire Lefebvre, publié chez Elsevier).
Quels sont les avantages de s¹inscrire à l¹Institut d¹été ?
> Des cours donnés par des sommités internationales dans le domaine ;
> La chance de rencontrer des étudiants étrangers de haut calibre
> partageant vos intérêts ;
> La possibilité d¹établir des liens de réseautage (pour études
> ultérieures, stages, postdoc) ;
> Plusieurs activités connexes qui vous aideront à développer vos
> connaissances (séances de communication par affiche
> http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/eteisc/ocs/custom/cfp-socialCognition.pdf, soupers
> thématiques, etc.) ;
> Un cours durant l¹été (ce qui est quelques fois rare aux études
> supérieures) ;
> La chance d¹obtenir 3 crédits en dix jours plus un travail à compléter
> pendant l¹été.
>
La procédure d¹inscription comporte une ou deux étapes selon que vous
désirez obtenir des crédits ou non.
> 1. Toute personne désirant participer à l¹institut d¹été doit remplir le
> formulaire sur notre site web et acquitter les frais d¹inscription :
> http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/eteisc/ocs/index.php/eteisc/SS2008/schedConf/re…
> tration
> 2. Si vous désirez également obtenir des crédits (3) pour cette activité,
> la procédure varie selon votre attache universitaire actuelle :
>> Si vous êtes étudiants au doctorat à l¹UQAM, il s¹agit de vous inscrire
>> auprès de votre département à l¹un ou l¹autre de ces cours.
>>> DIC938H-01. Cognition Sociale
>>> PHI9026. Sujets spéciaux
>>> LIN9950. Séminaires thématiques
>>> PSY9517. Problèmes contemporains en psychologie sociale
>> Si vous êtes étudiants à la maîtrise ou finissant au baccalauréat,
>> veuillez nous écrire ou consulter la direction des études supérieures de
>> votre programme pour discuter de la possibilité de faire créditer un cours de
>> maîtrise. L¹institut d¹été accueillera favorablement tout étudiant de
>> maîtrise désirant s¹inscrire et ajustera les travaux demandés pour refléter
>> le cycle des inscrits.
>> Si vous êtes inscrits à une autre université, veuillez vous adresser
>> directement au bureau du registraire : franco-canada(a)regis.uqam.ca si vous
>> êtes du Canada ou nous vous remettrons un formulaire à remplir pour admission
>> comme étudiant libre si vous êtes de l¹étranger.
>>
Notez que dépendamment de votre situation, des frais d¹inscription
supplémentaires pourraient être demandés par l¹UQAM ou votre université
d¹attache.
Veuillez visiter notre site web pour consulter le programme et pour toute
information au sujet de l¹Institut d¹été :
http://www.summer08.isc.uqam.ca/
Le comité organisateur
L¹Institut d¹été en sciences cognitives Esprits et Sociétés
--
Guillaume Chicoisne
Institut des Sciences Cognitives
(+1) 514-987-3000 #4374
Cog. Sci. Institute: http://www.isc.uqam.ca
Pers. Page:
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/cogsci2/isc/article.php3?id_article=229
Apologies for cross-postings.
== Call for Contributions ==
2nd Workshop on Scientific Communities of Practice (SCooP) on June 27th
2008 at Jacobs University Bremen.
http://jem-thematic.net/seminar/scoop2008
== Overview ==
Communities of Practice (CoPs) group people from all around the globe
around a common concern, a common set of problems, which is tackled by
exchanging knowledge, ideas, and expertise.
CoPs also exist in science, although scientific communities of practice
are more heterogeneous than their corporate counterparts, as members
come from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. Yet, it is exactly
for this interdisciplinarity that these groupings are valuable for a for
deepening knowledge and learning.
In this context, SCooP aims at joining people from different fields,
such as mathematics, computer science, chemistry, physics, biology etc.,
who share a common interest -- Communities of Practice. The workshop
thus wants to facilitate the exchange of experiences and
implementations, and will in particular address questions such as:
* What are scientific or educational practices in educational and
scientific communities?
* Can these practice be automatically detected/ collected/ or modeled?
* What are implementations for CoPs?
* Which features make these tools so attractive and how do they support
(practices of) CoPs?
Papers (including position papers and research proposals) on the
theoretic aspects of scientific and educational CoPs as well as system
descriptions and demonstrations of respective systems, prototypes, and
mock ups are welcome!
== Important dates ==
* Submission of title and abstract: May 16th (via email to
c.mueller(a)jacobs-university.de )
* Submission of papers: May 30th
* Notification of acceptance: June 6th
* Camera ready copies due: June 20th (approximately)
* Workshop in Bremen: June 27th
== Registration and Accommodation ==
* Accommodation is available on campus at Jacobs University Bremen,
please contact c.mueller(a)jacobs-university.de for details
* Registration via http://jem-thematic.net/seminar/scoop2008
== Further Links ==
* SCooP Mailing List:
http://lists.jacobs-university.de/mailman/listinfo/project-scoop
* SCooP Interest Group at http://jem-thematic.net/sig/scoop
The workshop is funded by the Joining Educational Mathematics Network
http://jem-thematic.net/
http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=15031&PRODUCT_CODE=ELI082/SESS0…
"To enhance the learning experience of a term paper, students were
required to publish their papers in Wikipedia. Publishing for a large
audience provided authentic feedback and encouraged students to do
their best work. Using Wikipedia also allowed students to connect with
a vibrant community and share their knowledge by making their papers
publicly accessible."
I haven't watched the profession, but the sentence "students were
required to publish their papers in Wikipedia" makes me cringe. One
can only hope the professors introduced them to (or understood) the
norms and policies of the site, and didn't require original
research...
-- phoebe
For those that are able to read Danish may be interested in a short
description of Wikipedia research and other issues that I wrote. A PDF is
available at:
http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/views/publication_details.php?id=5652
/Finn
___________________________________________________________________
Finn Aarup Nielsen, DTU Informatics, Denmark
Lundbeck Foundation Center for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging
http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~fn/http://nru.dk/staff/fnielsen/
___________________________________________________________________
FYI
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Apr 7, 2008 4:02 PM
Subject: RfC: Wikimedia Foundation Research Goals
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sue & I have drafted a set of research goals that the Wikimedia
Foundation supports. The purpose of the document is to have something
we can point researchers, universities, foundations, and other third
parties to when they ask us: So, what kind of research are you
interested in? Will you support/endorse my research proposal X? In
most cases, we will not actively pursue these goals directly -- we'll
just try to facilitate & endorse research by third parties.
These research goals need to line up with our overall organizational
goals to make sense, so we've tried to map research goals to
organizational goals.
In light of this constraint, please do feel free to make revisions, or
to suggest changes on the discussion page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Research_Goals
It's still a draft looked at by only two people - so we do expect it
to be incomplete. :-)
(BTW - I'm aware that some chapters are pursuing a research agenda on
their own: This is great, and these Foundation goals are in no way
meant to be prescriptive for chapters.)
--
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
--
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate