Re: [Wiki-research-l] JWPL - A Java-based Wikipedia API released

Why don't you release this under a free license so that the Wikimedia Foundation could use it?

On Jul 2, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Torsten Zesch wrote:

           JWPL - Java Wikipedia Library

         version 0.3 beta is now available

    http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/JWPL

INTRODUCTION

Lately, Wikipedia has been recognized as a promising lexical semantic resource. We present JWPL, a free Java-based Wikipedia application programming interface, that enables the use of Wikipedia as a NLP resource by providing efficient programmatic access to the knowledge therein.

FUNCTIONALITY

Fast access to:

• article text
• categories
• redirects
• links between articles (ingoing and outgoing).

Discrimination between

• article pages
• disambiguation pages
• redirect pages.

Available languages:

• English
• German
• Czech
• Ukrainian

Other languages will be added step by step.

DOWNLOAD

JWPL Java library http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/JWPL

Wikipedia data (with database scheme optimized for large-scale NLP tasks) ftp://ftp.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/tud/informatik/JWPL_data

LICENCE

JWPL is free for non-profit and non-commercial use.

ABOUT

JWPL was developed by the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab at Darmstadt University of Technlogy.

http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de

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