Really interesting! Can you post an HTML or text only version so I could read it using Google Translate?
At WikiMania 07, I presented a paper that looked at how useful wiki resources like wikipedia, wiktionary and OmegaWiki might be for the needs of translators.
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:AD1
One of the things we found was that in isolation, each of those resources at best covered ~30% of the translation difficulties typically encountered by professional translators for the English-French pair. But combined, they were able to cover ~50%. We also found that the presentation of information on Wikipedia and Wiktionary was not suited for the needs of translators.
Based on those two findings, we proposed the idea of a robot capable of pulling cross-lingual information from those resources and presenting in a way that is better suited for the needs of translators. Sounds like you may have just done this!
Is there a web interface to this multilingual resource that I could try?
Alain Désilets
-----Original Message----- From: wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wiki- research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Kinzler Sent: May 30, 2008 5:54 AM To: wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wiki-research-l] thesis: automatically building a multilingualthesaurus from wikipedia
My diploma thesis about a system to automatically build a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia, "WikiWord", is finally done. I handed it in yesterday. My research will hopefully help to make Wikipedia more accessible for automatic processing, especially for applications natural languae processing, machine translation and information retrieval. What this could mean for Wikipedia is: better search and conceptual navigation, tools for suggesting categories, and more.
Here's the thesis (in German, i'm afraid): http://brightbyte.de/DA/WikiWord.pdf
Daniel Kinzler, "Automatischer Aufbau eines multilingualen Thesaurus durch Extraktion semantischer und lexikalischer Relationen aus der Wikipedia", Diplomarbeit an der Abteilung für Automatische Sprachverarbeitung, Institut für Informatik, Universität Leipzig, 2008.
For the curious, http://brightbyte.de/DA/ also contains source code and data. See http://brightbyte.de/page/WikiWord for more information.
Some more data is for now avialable at http://aspra27.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~dkinzler/rdfdumps/. This includes full SKOS dumps for en, de, fr, nl, and no covering about six million concepts.
The thesis ended up being rather large... 220 pages thesis and 30k lines of code. I'm plannign to write a research paper in english soon, which will give an overview over WikiWord and what it can be used for.
The thesis is licensed under the GFDL, WikiWord is GPL software. All data taken or derived from wikipedia is GFDL.
Enjoy, Daniel
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