New subject: thesis: automatically building a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia

30 May 2008

This looks very interesting!
Is this a thesaurus that can be used for translation of words across
languages?
Is there some way to quickly have a demo or view the data?
I browsed some files, and I see entries of the kind:

:xf5bfa ww:displayLabel "de:Feliner_Diabetes_mellitus" .
:xf5bfa ww:type wwct:OTHER .
:xf5bfa rdf:type skos:Concept .
:xf5bfa skos:inScheme <
http://brightbyte.de/vocab/wikiword/dataset/*/animals:thesaurus

which tells me that Diabetes Mellitus of a feline is a concept... I was
interested in the animal thesaurus as a way to translate animal names across
languages... there are a lot of files, and I don't know if I am looking at
the right ones.  Perhaps if you pointed us to the most interesting /
understandable datasets, it would be very useful.

I am sorry if the above remarks seem superficial; I cannot read German well
enough to read dissertations in it...

Best, Luca.

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Daniel Kinzler &lt;daniel(a)brightbyte.de&gt;
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/<http://aspra27.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/%7Edkinzler/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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