Oren, check this out. Could you reach out to these researchers and tell them to subscribe to this list if they haven't already? :-)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21625-new-search-tool-to-unlock-wikipe...
"New search tool to unlock Wikipedia" - 28 March 2012 by Paul Marks
http://swipe.i-mozart.com/www2012demo/TR_swipe.pdf
"Called Swipe - loosely short for "searching Wikipedia by example" - the software aims to let users of the online encyclopedia answer complex questions that most search engines would stumble over....
"The pair wrote Swipe using MediaWiki, the software Wikipedia is based on, but it draws its answers from DBpedia...
"...Swipe "activates" those Wikipedia info boxes, allowing users to take the data in them and create a tweaked version, and in doing so calls up pages that match that altered information....
"Swipe could easily be made available as an option on Wikipedia one day, says Atzori...."
Just a heads-up.
wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org