On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de wrote:
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.
Congratulations! Looks nice (quickly scanning over the pages).
Magnus