Dear colleagues, Following the suggestion of Jimmy Wales, we would like to announce a new paper that uses Wikipedia as a very large-scale repository of world knowledge for information retrieval tasks. To date, Wikipedia was mostly used by human users (readers), and we hope our research opens a promising new direction of automatically using the knowledge from Wikipedia for tasks that normally require human-level intelligence. In our ongoing research, we plan to explore using Wikipedia for additional text processing tasks, such as Web search and word sense disambiguation. Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Shaul Markovitch (2006). ''Overcoming the Brittleness Bottleneck using Wikipedia: Enhancing Text Categorization with Encyclopedic Knowledge''. Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), pp. 1301-1306. http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/papers/wiki-aaai06.pdf Kind regards, Evgeniy. -- Evgeniy Gabrilovich Ph.D. student in Computer Science Department of Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel Email: gabr(a)cs.technion.ac.il WWW: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr