Cross-list posting, as it's relevant to Wiktionary and Wikimedia as a whole.
First of all, please go to Meta page "Names of Wikimedia languages"
[1] and do the best to proofread or translate items. That's
strategically important set of lists for the movement. We have to know
the names of Wikimedia languages in Wikimedia languages.
This is the first mobilization for this kind of simple translations:
few hundred terms, of which this list is the most complex, as it
requires additional column "in <this> language".
The next one will be about lexicographical and grammatical terms and
abbreviations. That one is of strategic importance for Wiktionary, as
it allows anyone to generate sane dictionary entries.
After those two lists we'll be able to start working on the
Ornithological dictionary, with something less than 400 species.
And now about the number of tanks...
Let's say that there are 250 Wikimedia languages and that we have
three matrix sets: names of languages, 100 lexicographical and
grammatical abbreviations and terms and 400 species from
ornithological dictionary. And that we have those lists translated in
all (250) Wikimedia languages. The numbers are...
* The names of 250 languages *times* in 250 languages (=62,500 entries
per project) *times* on 250 projects (=15,625,000 entries on all
projects).
* 100 lexicographical and grammatical terms and abbreviations *times*
250 languages (=25,000 entries per project) *times* on 250 projects
(=6,250,000 entries on all projects).
* 400 bird species * 250 languages (=100,000 entries per project)
*times* on 250 projects (=25,000,000 entries on all projects).
OK. That calculation is too optimistic. I would be happy if we get
translations in 50 languages. The numbers would be then 125,000
entries for languages, 250,000 entries for lexicographical and
grammatical terms and abbreviations and 1,000,000 for birds.
Besides obvious fact that traditional lexicography isn't that
optimized (note that it's about traditional lexicography, not about
Wiktionary itself, thus not that fixable) and that we need a bit
better method (OmegaWiki, Wikidata, we are developing the proof of
concept, as well), there are two other consequences:
1) If we have a set of 400 words and we translate them in 50
languages, we are getting one million of entries. We should be doing
that on monthly basis. It's not hard at all!
2) In a bit more complex form, which requires more work per matrix set
and smaller output ("just" multiplication of the first and third
number), this could be used for Wikipedia articles, as well. (You need
much more information in encyclopedic article for German language than
in a dictionary entry. But it's quite possible to do it. And it's
especially important for languages with small number of speakers.)
Please go to [1] and help this translation! Having the names of
Wikimedia languages in Wikimedia languages *is* important no matter if
it's about Wiktionary or generating the content. We should know the
names of our languages in our languages.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Wikimedia_languages
Hi everyone,
We’re preparing for the May 2015 Research Newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201505 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. A usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
Highlights:
Online dictionaries in Web 2.0 platform – Wikiszótár and Wiktionary
Observing Online Dictionary Users: Studies Using Wiktionary Log Files
Methods in collaborative dictionaries
Zmorge: A German Morphological Lexicon Extracted from Wiktionary
Dbnary : Wiktionary as Linked Data for 12 Language Editions with Enhanced Translation Relations
If you have any questions about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list.
Masssly, Tilman Bayer, Dario Taraborelli
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter
Hi everyone,
We’re preparing for the May 2015 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201505 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
Highlights:
Online dictionaries in Web 2.0 platform – Wikiszótár and Wiktionary
Observing Online Dictionary Users: Studies Using Wiktionary Log Files
Methods in collaborative dictionaries
Zmorge: A German Morphological Lexicon Extracted from Wiktionary
Dbnary : Wiktionary as Linked Data for 12 Language Editions with Enhanced Translation Relations
If you have any question about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list.
Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter
Greetings,
Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the
candidates for the Board will continue during the voting.
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing
authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many
diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.
If you would like a translated ballot, you can change your language for
Meta-Wiki on the Universal Language Selector or in your Preferences before
clicking the 'jump to next wiki' button on SecurePoll. You may also click
the vote banner from your home wiki or select your preferred language from
the language box above the ballot.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31.
To vote: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/339
More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the
2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Board_electi…
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Translations of this message:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/MassMes…
See also the full thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.wikidata/5982
-------- Messaggio inoltrato --------
Oggetto: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata for Wiktionary
Data: Thu, 07 May 2015 02:54:06 +0000
Mittente: Denny Vrandečić
It is rather clear that everyone wants Wikidata to also support
Wiktionary, and there have been plenty of proposals in the last few
years. I think that the latest proposals are sufficiently similar to go
for the next step: a break down of the tasks needed to get this done.
Currently, the idea of having Wikidata supporting Wiktionary is stalled
because it is regarded as a large monolithic task, and as such it is
hard to plan and commit to. I tried to come up with a task break-down,
and discussed it with Lydia and Daniel, and now, as said in the last
office hour, here it is for discussion and community input.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary/Development/Proposals/201…
I think it would be really awesome if we would start moving in this
direction. Wiktionary supported by Wikidata could quickly become one of
the crucial pieces of infrastructure for the Web as a whole, but in
particular for Wikipedia and its future development.
Cheers,
Denny
Call for Research & Innovation Papers
SEMANTiCS 2015
Transfer // Engineering // Community
11th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Vienna, Austria September 15-17, 2015
http://www.semantics.cc
Important Dates (Research & Innovation)
------------------------------------------------------
* Abstract Submission Deadline: May 22, 2015
* Paper Submission Deadline: May 29, 2015
* Notification of Acceptance: July 10, 2015
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 24, 2015
SEMANTiCS proceedings will be published by ACM ICP.
Submissions via Easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2015research
The calls for “Industry & Use Case Presentations” and “Posters and
Demos” at SEMANTiCS 2015 can be found here:http://www.semantics.cc/
<http://www.semantics.cc/>
The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for professionals
who make semantic computing work, who understand its benefits and
encounter its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information
managers, IT-architects, software engineers and researchers from
organisations ranging from NPOs, through public administrations to the
largest companies in the world. Attendees learn from industry experts
and top researchers about emerging trends and topics in the fields of
semantic software, enterprise data, linked data & open data strategies,
methodologies in knowledge modelling and text & data analytics. The
SEMANTiCS community is highly diverse; attendees have responsibilities
in interlinking areas like knowledge management, technical
documentation, e-commerce, big data analytics, enterprise search,
document management, business intelligence and enterprise vocabulary
management.
The success of last year’s conference in Leipzig with more than 230
attendees from 22 countries proves that SEMANTiCS 2015 will continue a
long tradition of bringing together colleagues from around the world.
There will be presentations on industry implementations, use case
prototypes, best practices, panels, papers and posters to discuss
semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions as well as informal
settings. SEMANTICS addresses problems common among information
managers, software engineers, IT-architects and various specialist
departments working to develop, implement and/or evaluate semantic
software systems.
The SEMANTiCS program is a rich mix of technical talks, panel
discussions of important topics and presentations by people who make
things work - just like you. In addition, attendees can network with
experts in a variety of fields. These relationships provide great value
to organisations as they encounter subtle technical issues in any stage
of implementation. The expertise gained by SEMANTiCS attendees has a
long-term impact on their careers and organisations. These factors make
SEMANTiCS for our community the major industry related event across Europe.
The following ‘horizontals’ (research) and ‘verticals’ (industries)
topics are of interest:
* Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies
* Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search
* Data Integration & Enterprise Linked Data
* Big Data & Text Analytics
* Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization
* Semantic Information Management
* Document Management & Content Management
* Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management
* Industry & Engineering
* Life Sciences & Health Care
* Public Administration
* Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM)
* Media, Publishing & Advertising
* Financial & Insurance Industry
* Telecommunications
* Energy, Transport & Environment
Research / Innovation Papers
--------------------------------------
The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes the submission of
papers on novel scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the
topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have
been submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should follow the ACM
ICPS guidelines for formatting
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and must
not exceed 8 pages in length for full papers and 4 pages for short
papers, including references and optional appendices.
All accepted full papers and short papers will be published in the
digital library of the ACM ICP Series under the ISBN-No.:
978-1-4503-1972-0. Research & Innovation papers should be submitted
through EasyChair at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2015research. Papers
must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format.
Other formats will not be accepted. For the camera-ready version, the
source files (Latex, Word Perfect, Word) will also be needed.
Important Dates (Research & Innovation)
* Abstract Submission Deadline: May 22, 2015
* Paper Submission Deadline: May 29, 2015
* Notification of Acceptance: June 26, 2015
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 15 , 2015
Research and Innovation Chairs:
Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW, Universität Leipzig
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Siemens AG Österreich
Programme Committee:
* Alessandro Adamou, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
* Guadalupe Aguado-De-Cea, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
* Rajendra Akerkar, Senior Researcher/Professor, Western Norway Research
Institute
* Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT CNRS
* Ciro Baron, University of Leipzig
* Charalampos Bratsas, Web Science Program, Mathematics Department,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
* Martin Brümmer, Universität Leipzig
* Volha Bryl, University of Mannheim
* Paul Buitelaar, Insight centre for Data Analytics, National University
of Ireland Galway
* Irene Celino, CEFRIEL
* Pierre-Antoine Champin, LIRIS
* Christian Chiarcos,
* Key-Sun Choi, KAIST
* Ioana-Georgiana Ciuciu, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
* Roland Cornelissen, Metamatter
* Gianluca Correndo, University of Southampton
* Roberta Cuel, University of Trento
* Claudia D'Amato, University of Bari
* Mathieu D'Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, the Open University
* Aba-Sah Dadzie, University of Birmingham
* Enrico Daga, The Open University
* Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari
* Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center
* Marin Dimitrov, Ontotext
* Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
* Samhaa El-Beltagy, Cairo University
* Henrik Eriksson, Linkping University
* Anna Fensel, Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck, University
of Innsbruck
* Miriam Fernandez, Knowledge Media Institute
* Agata Filipowska, Department of Information Systems, Poznan University
of Economics
* Marco Fossati, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
* Fabien Gandon, Inria
* Roberto Garcia, Universitat de Lleida
* José María García, STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck
* Wolfgang Gassler, University of Innsbruck, Insitute of Computer
Science, Research Group Databases and Information Systems
* Alain Giboin, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée
* Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO) S.A.
* Jorge Gracia, Ontology Engineering Group. Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid
* Michael Granitzer, University of Passau
* Andreas Harth, AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
* Bernhard Haslhofer,
* Benjamin Heitmann, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National
University of Ireland, Galway
* Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center
* Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg
* Sirko Hunnius, IfG.CC - The Potsdam eGovernment Competence Center
* Anja Jentzsch, Hasso Plattner Institut
* Efstratios Kontopoulos, CERTH-ITI
* Christoph Lange, University of Bonn
* Ivo Lašek, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University
* Nelia Lasierra Beamonte, STI, University of Innsbruck
* Steffen Lohmann, University of Stuttgart
* Vanessa Lopez, IBM Research
* Sandra Lovrenčić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of organization and
informatics Varazdin, Pavlinska 2, HR-42000 Varazdin, Croatia
* Markus Luczak-Roesch, University of Southampton
* Elisa Marengo, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of
Bozen-Bolzano
* John P. Mccrae, Cognitive Interaction Technology, Center of Excellence
* Pablo Mendes, IBM Research Almaden
* Uroš Milošević, Institute Mihailo Pupin
* Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Ontology Engineering Group. Laboratorio de
Inteligencia Artificial. Facultad de Informática. Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid
* Andrea Moro, Sapienza, Universita di Roma
* Lyndon Nixon, MODUL University
* Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, STLab, ISTC-CNR
* Leo Obrst, MITRE
* Vito Claudio Ostuni, Politecnico di Bari
* Viviana Patti, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino
* Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim
* Silvio Peroni, University of Bologna and ISTC-CNR
* Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU Wien
* Mateusz Radzimski, Universidad Carlos III Madrid
* Achim Rettinger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
* Giuseppe Rizzo, EURECOM
* Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
* Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University
* Eugen Ruppert, TU Darmstadt - FG Language Technology
* Marta Sabou, MODUL University Vienna
* Muhammad Saleem, AKSW
* Felix Sasaki, W3C
* Bernhard Schandl, mySugr GmbH
* Pavel Shvaiko, Informatica Trentina
* Elena Simperl, University of Southampton
* Ronald Stamper, Measur Ltd
* Nadine Steinmetz, Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems
Engineering
* Holger Stenzhorn, Saarland University Hospital
* Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
* Vojtěch Svátek, University of Economics, Prague
* Alexandru Todor, AG Corporate Semantic Web
* Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universität Berlin, Networked Information Systems
* Ioan Toma, STI Innsbruck
* Jürgen Umbrich, Vienna University of Economy and Business (WU)
* Ricardo Usbeck, University of Leipzig
* Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche, INSERM UMRS 872, éq.20, 15, rue de l’école
de médecine, 75006 Paris, France
* Ruben Verborgh, Ghent University - iMinds
* Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Dept. Computer Science
* Boris Villazón-Terrazas, iSOCO, Intelligent Software Components
* Krzysztof Wecel, Poznan University of Economics
* Katrin Weller, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
* Rupert Westenthaler, Salzburg Research
* Patrick Westphal, Universität Leipzig
* Wolfram Wöß, Institute for Application Oriented Knowledge Processing,
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
* Eva Zangerle, Databases and Information Systems, Department of
Computer Science, University of Innsbruck
SEMANTiCS 2015 Organisation Committee:
* Axel Polleres, Conference Chair
* Tassilo Pellegrini, Conference Chair
* Christian Dirschl, Industry Chair
* Sebastian Hellmann, Research & Innovation Chair
* Josiane Xavier Parreira, Research & Innovation Chair
* Agata Filipowska, Poster and Demo Chair
* Ruben Verborgh, Poster and Demo Chair
* Anna Fensel, Workshop Chair
--
Sebastian Hellmann
AKSW/NLP2RDF research group
Insitute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) and DBpedia Association
Events:
* *Sept. 1-5, 2014* Conference Week in Leipzig, including
** *Sept 2nd*, MLODE 2014 <http://mlode2014.nlp2rdf.org/>
** *Sept 3rd*, 2nd DBpedia Community Meeting
<http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2014>
** *Sept 4th-5th*, SEMANTiCS (formerly i-SEMANTICS) <http://semantics.cc/>
Venha para a Alemanha como PhD: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/csf
Projects: http://dbpedia.org, http://nlp2rdf.org,
http://linguistics.okfn.org, https://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt
<http://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt>
Homepage: http://aksw.org/SebastianHellmann
Research Group: http://aksw.org
Thesis:
http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis-summaryhttp://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis