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