-- 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 >