--
Piotr Konieczny
"The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in
theory."
Torsten Zesch wrote:
> We would like to announce two new papers using Wikipedia.
> We hope that the results will be of use for the Wikipedia research
> community.
>
>
> (1)
> Torsten Zesch, Iryna Gurevych (2007)
> ''Analysis of the Wikipedia Category Graph for NLP Applications.''
> Proceedings of the TextGraphs-2 Workshop (NAACL-HLT)
>
http://elara.tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/publications/2007/hlt-textgraphs....
>
> In this paper, we discuss the Wikipedia category graph. We perform a
> graphtheoretic analysis and show that it is a scale-free, small
> world graph like other well-known lexical semantic networks.
>
>
> (2)
>
> In this paper, we show how Wikipedia can be used for computing semantic
> relatedness between terms. Wikipedia outperforms classical semantic
> wordnets on the task of estimating non-classical semantic relations.
>
> Torsten Zesch, Iryna Gurevych, Max Mühlhäuser (2007)
> ''Comparing Wikipedia and German Wordnet by Evaluating Semantic
> Relatedness on Multiple Datasets.''
> Proceedings of NAACL-HLT
>
http://elara.tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/publications/2007/hlt-short.pdf
>
> Best regards,
> Torsten
>