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ANN: 1st DBpedia Community meeting, 30th January at VU Amsterdam
by Sebastian Hellmann 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

** apologies for cross-posting, please forward to interested people and lists ** 1st DBpedia Community Meeting ==================== Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014 **Submission of presentations open**: http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014 The DBpedia Project in 2014: from a hosted data set to a public data infrastructure for the Web of Data. As the DBpedia community has grown extensively, we think that the time has come to get everybody in one large room and meet. We hope to get together three major groups involved in DBpedia: the /DBpedia developers and maintainers/, the communities of the individual /DBpedia language chapters/ and, of course, the /DBpedia users/. Quick Facts ======= When: January 30th, 2014 Where: VU Amsterdam, Netherlands (behind the high main building, nr 4 on the map ) Host: Dutch DBpedia Chapter (http://nl.dbpedia.org) and the VU Amsterdam Call for Contribution: **Submission Open** http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014 Registration: see http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014 Co-located with the PiLOD 2.0 meeting (http://www.pilod.nl) on January 29th, 2014 Acknowledgements ============ * We would especially like to thank Bibliotheek.nl -- Public Libraries of the Netherlands (http://bibliotheek.nl/) for supporting the Dutch DBpedia Chapter. * Koninklijke Bibliotheek -- National library of the Netherlands (http://www.kb.nl) for supporting the Dutch DBpedia Chapter and providing lunch for the meeting. * VU Amsterdam (http://www.vu.nl/) kindly provided the facilities for the meeting, with special thanks to Lora Arroyo from Biography Net (http://www.biographynet.nl/) * OpenLink Software (http://www.openlinksw.com/) for continuous hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint Abstract ====== (Please see http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014 for complete program) The meeting will be held at VU Amsterdam on Jan 30th and is co-located with the PiLOD 2.0 (http://www.pilod.nl) meeting one day earlier. The first session will be a discussion about the DBpedia State-of-Play, where core members of the DBpedia community present certain aspects of DBpedia and the audience is invited to give feedback and ask questions. The second session will be dedicated to users of DBpedia. We would like to invite companies, organisations and other project to shortly present their use cases for DBpedia and give input on how we can improve DBpedia for users. Free slots still available, apply here: http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014 After the lunch, we plan to have three break-out sessions for the topics (1) DBpedia and Library, (2) Linking text to LOD entities and (3) What is wrong with DBpedia? Developers discussion on how to improve our baby. Finally, the last parallel sessions are planned as: DBpedia tutorial, DBpedia I18N developers' session and a Local Dutch DBpedia Chapter Meeting with the additional possibility to continue break out sessions. -> Note the Local Dutch DBpedia Chapter might be held one day earlier at the Pilod meeting, please look here for updates in a couple of days ( written Jan 14th) . ==== About DBpedia ==== Source: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj499.pdf The DBpedia community project extracts structured, multilingual knowledge from Wikipedia and makes it freely available using Semantic Web and Linked Data standards. The extracted knowledge, comprising more than 1.8 billion facts, is structured according to an ontology maintained by the community. The knowledge is obtained from different Wikipedia language editions, thus covering more than 100 languages, and mapped to the community ontology. The resulting data sets are linked to more than 30 other data sets in the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud. The DBpedia project was started in 2006 and has meanwhile attracted large interest in research and practice. Being a central part of the LOD cloud, it serves as a connection hub for other data sets. For the research community, DBpedia provides a testbed serving real world data spanning many domains and languages. Due to the continuous growth of Wikipedia, DBpedia also provides an increasing added value for data acquisition, re-use and integration tasks within organisations. In this system report, we give an overview over the DBpedia community project, including its architecture, technical implementation, maintenance, internationalisation, usage statistics and showcase some popular DBpedia applications. Travel Grants / Sponsorship ================= Some of the DBpedia developers work on DBpedia in their free-time and will not have institutional funding to come to the meeting. Therefore, we are still looking for sponsors for travel grants (as well as coffee and food for the sessions). If you are interested to sponsor this meeting, please fill out this form to request more information: http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014 Given we can acquire a sponsor, participants can apply for a travel grant here: http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014 or email Sebastian (who will then add your request to the form ;) ) These grants will be awarded depending on the standing in the community and community activity, e.g. Google Summer of Code participation or Git Commits to DBpedia framework, activity on the mailing lists, etc. We hope to see you there, Gerard, Gerald (from Dutch DBpedia), Mariano from the Spanish DBpedia and Dimitris and Sebastian -- Sebastian Hellmann Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig Events: * *30th January, 2014*: 1st DBpedia Community meeting (http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014) * *Sept. 2014* MLODE Venha para a Alemanha como PhD: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/csf Projects: http://dbpedia.org, http://nlp2rdf.org, http://linguistics.okfn.org, http://dbpedia.org/Wiktionary Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann Research Group: http://aksw.org Stop asking, it's here: http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis-summary http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis

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Wikimania 2014 scholarship now accepting application
by Katie Chan 08 Jan '14

08 Jan '14

Hi all, Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2014 in London are now being accepted. Applications are open until the end of the day UTC on 17 February. Wikimania 2014 scholarships is an award given to an individual to enable them to attend Wikimania in London from 6-10 August, 2014. Only a single type of scholarship will be available from the Wikimedia Foundation for Wikimania 2014. A Wikimedia Foundation scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel costs as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation travel agency, shared accommodation as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation, and registration for Wikimania. Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria by the Scholarship Committee, who will determine which are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2014 scholarships, please visit <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships>. To apply for a scholarship, fill out the application form on <http://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply>. It is highly recommended that applicants review all of the material on the Scholarships page and the associated FAQ before submitting an application. If you have any question, please contact <wikimania-scholarships(a)wikimedia.org> or leave a message on <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships>. Katie Chan Chair, Scholarship Committee -- Katie Chan Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the view of any organisation the author is associated with or employed by. Experience is a good school but the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine

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Re: [Wiktionary-l] [Wikitech-l] Listing missing words of wiktionnaries
by Lars Aronsson 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

On 07/23/2013 11:23 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: > Here is what I would like to do : generating reports which give, for a > given language, a list of words which are used on the web with a > number evaluating its occurencies, but which are not in a given > wiktionary. > > How would you recommand to implemente that within the wikimedia > infrastructure? Some years back, I undertook to add entries for Swedish words in the English Wiktionary. You can follow my diary at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:LA2 Among the things I did was to extract a list of all Swedish words that already had entries. The best way was to use CatScan to list entries in categories for Swedish words. Even if there is a page called "men", this doesn't mean the Swedish word "men" has an entry, because it could be the English word "men" that is in that page. Then I extracted all words from some known texts, e.g. novels, the Bible, government reports, and the Swedish Wikipedia, counting the number of occurrencies of each word. Case significance is a bit tricky. There should not be an entry for lower-case stockholm, so you can't just convert everything to lower case. But if a sentence begins with a capital letter, that word should not have a capitalized entry. Another tricky issue is abbreviations, which should keep the period, for example "i.e." rather than "i" and "e". But the period that ends a sentence should be removed. When splitting a text into words, I decided to keep all periods and initial capital letters, even if this leads to some false words. When you have word frequency statistics for a text, and a list of existing entries from Wiktionary, you can compute the coverage, and I wrote a little script for this. I found that English Wiktionary already had Swedish entries covering 72% of the words in the Bible, and when I started to add entries for the most common of the missing words, I was able to increase this to 87% in just a single month (September 2010). Many of the common words that were missing when I started were adverbs such as "thereof", "herein", which occur frequently in any text but are not very exciting to write entries about. This statistics-based approach gave me a reason to add those entries. It is interesting to contrast a given text to a given dictionary in this way. The Swedish entries in the English Wiktionary is a different dictionary than the Swedish entries in the German or Danish Wiktionary. The kinds of words found in the Bible are different from those found in Wikipedia or in legal texts. There is not a single, universal text corpus that we can aim to cover. Google has released its ngram dataset. I'm not sure if it covers Swedish, but even if it does, it must differ from the corpus frequencies published by the Swedish Academy. It is relatively easy to extract a list of existing entries from Wiktionary. But to prepare a given text corpus for frequency and coverage analysis needs more preparation. -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

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Re: [Wiktionary-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Would any other wikis like to try out a new search?
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Nikolas Everett, 06/11/2013 15:13: > Around that time I'm going to get hungry for more. I'll have new > servers with tons of head room and WMF folks will start asking me, "When > can we turn off the old search?" and I like to be able to answer that > with "When no one uses it. We're adding 6 wikis to Cirrus this week so > we'll get there eventually." What do folks think about adding _all_ > wikisources and/or all wiktionaries as secondary? I've been told that > they really need template tranclusion and so the old search isn't really > working for them any way. +1 This is more true for Wiktionary than for Wikisource, because many Wiktionaries produce tables of declension etc. via templates and that's actual if not the main content of entries. Additionally, with a similar "volume" it allows you to test in hundreds languages. So maybe Wiktionary first and Wikisource shortly after? Nemo

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contributing automatically built dictionaries
by Judit, Ács 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

Dear Wiktionary Community, We have been working on a triangulation method to expand existing dictionaries in many languages. We were able to parse translations from 40 Wiktionary editions and using these as seed dictionaries (appr. 3.6M translation pairs), we created an additional 16M pairs in 50 languages. It is possible to extend the number of languages. While the automatically generated dictionary is not a 100% correct, with correct filtering, 90%+ can be reached. One version of the parsed Wiktionaries and the generated pairs can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r95tdr52o5rzzrw/a54Y66YGOJ We used dumps from August to create these. The software used to build dictionaries: https://github.com/juditacs/wikt2dict Do you think there is a way to contribute this dictionary back to Wiktionary? Best, Judit Ács

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new word
by Alfred Langer 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

I submit a new word for your consideration: dogophile- a lover of dogs.

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] It's time to reclaim the community logo
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 21 Sep '13

21 Sep '13

FYI Nemo P.s.: P.s.: You can check whether the WMF protects the logo of your project by seeing if it's listed as "registered trademark" on <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_trademarks>. -------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: [Wikimedia-l] It's time to reclaim the community logo Data: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 12:16:16 +0200 Mittente: Tomasz W. Kozlowski Hello community, this is to inform you that in response to the trademarking of the Wikimedia community logo[1], created in 2006 by Artur “WarX” Fijałkowski, which was discussed on this mailing list[2] as well as on Meta[3] back in March, a small group of community members—Artur, myself, Federico Leva (Nemo) and John Vandenberg—have initiated a formal process of opposition against the registration of the trademark by the Foundation in order to *reclaim the logo* for unrestricted use by the community. We appreciate the Foundation’s protection of the other trademarks they have registered so far, including the logos of Wikipedia, Wikisource and some other sister projects. In the case of the community logo, however, it is our belief that the Foundation’s actions are exactly opposite to what the community logo stands for and contradict the purpose behind its very existence. We would like to make it clear that it is not our intention to damage anyone; our actions are a challenge against what we perceive as unilateral declaration of ownership of an asset that has always belonged to the wider community, and not to one or another organisation that is part of the movement. By formally opposing the registration of the trademark we hope to ensure the history of this logo is not disregarded, and we wish to protect the community against unnecessary bureaucracy and, to use another quote, let “groups who do not purport to represent the WMF”[4] to continue to be able to freely associate with a logo that has been part of their identity for so long. We also want to note that this is in no way a legal action against the Foundation, but a simple notice of opposition against the registration of the logo in the European Union. If we assume good faith, we can only be confident that the WMF, having now a formal occasion, will withdraw its registration of the logo rather than continue using movement resources to force the community into lengthy, expensive proceedings. We invite all community members interested in this issue to express their opinions at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Logo/Reclaim_the_Logo If any of you would like to help us in any way (covering the costs of the opposition, promoting the discussion, etc.), please feel free to contact us off–list. Artur Fijalkowski (WarX) Tomasz Kozlowski (odder) Federico Leva (Nemo) John Vandenberg (jayvdb) == References == * [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Logo.svg * [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-March/124715.html * [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Logo * [4] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-March/124730.html _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Re: [Wiktionary-l] [Wikitech-l] CirrusSearch on mediawiki.org
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 07 Sep '13

07 Sep '13

Nice! As for next steps, what about using Wiktionary as next "pioneering project" for the new CirrusSearch (first opt-in and then default)? It exists in most languages (we really need to see how the new search works in different languages), it's one of the most impacted projects by the new features (e.g. expanded templates indexing) and at the same time allows to make full-project deploys without impacting some 95 % of our traffic. Nemo

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Fwd: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata/Wiktionary and other projects
by Gerard Meijssen 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Hoi, This is quite relevant ... They want our comments. As far as I am concerned I fail to appreciate "lemon". But I really like to hear your take on it. Thanks, GerardM ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Saskia Warzecha <saskia.warzecha(a)wikimedia.de> Date: 3 September 2013 11:59 Subject: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata/Wiktionary and other projects To: wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hello, for those who are interested, this is the link to the Wikidata/Wiktionary proposals and comparison of other structures: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Comparison_of_Projects_and_Proposals… Kind regards, Saskia 2013/7/16 Saskia Warzecha <saskia.warzecha(a)wikimedia.de> > Hi, > > I'm Saskia and I wanted to introduce myself. I started yesterday as an > intern at Wikidata in Berlin. > > I am currently finishing my studies in Computational Linguistics (B.Sc.) at > the University of Potsdam and will commence a M.Sc. in Vienna, Austria, > this fall. > > My task at Wikidata is to analyze the proposals for Wiktionary in Wikidata > [0],[1], to compare it with similar work (OmegaWiki, WordNet, etc.), and to > help in finding the best solution for Wiktionary. > > I'm staying for two months and am looking forward to your questions and > inputs. > > Best regards, > Saskia > > [0] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary > [1] > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary_%28alternative_proposal%29 > _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l

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FYI: Java-based Wiktionary Library (JWKTL) 1.0.0 released as open source software
by Christian Meyer 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

[Apologies for X-posting] We are pleased to announce the release of the Java-based Wiktionary Library (JWKTL) 1.0.0 - an application programming interface for Wiktionary. Project homepage: http://code.google.com/p/jwktl/ == Overview == JWKTL (Java-based Wiktionary Library) is an application programming interface for the free multilingual online dictionary Wiktionary (http://www.wiktionary.org). JWKTL enables efficient and structured access to the information encoded in the English, the German, and the Russian Wiktionary language editions, including sense definitions, part of speech tags, etymology, example sentences, translations, semantic relations, and many other lexical information types. The Russian JWKTL parser is based on Wikokit (http://code.google.com/p/wikokit/). Prior to being available as open source software, JWKTL has been a research project at the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab of the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. The following people have mainly contributed to this project: Yevgen Chebotar, Iryna Gurevych, Christian M. Meyer, Christof Müller, Lizhen Qu, Torsten Zesch. == Publications == A detailed description of Wiktionary and JWKTL is available in our scientific articles: * Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych: Wiktionary: A new rival for expert-built lexicons? Exploring the possibilities of collaborative lexicography, Chapter 13 in S. Granger & M. Paquot (Eds.): Electronic Lexicography, pp. 259-291, Oxford: Oxford University Press, November 2012. (http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/publications/details/?no_cache=1&tx_bibtex_p…) * Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych: OntoWiktionary - Constructing an Ontology from the Collaborative Online Dictionary Wiktionary, chapter 6 in M. T. Pazienza and A. Stellato (Eds.): Semi-Automatic Ontology Development: Processes and Resources, pp. 131-161, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, February 2012. (http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/publications/details/?no_cache=1&tx_bibtex_p…) * Torsten Zesch, Christof Müller, and Iryna Gurevych: Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary, in: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1646-1652, May 2008. Marrakech, Morocco. (http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/publications/details/?no_cache=1&tx_bibtex_p…) == License and Availability == The latest version of JWKTL is available via Maven Central. If you use Maven as your build tool, then you can add JWKTL as a dependency in your pom.xml file: <dependency> <groupId>de.tudarmstadt.ukp.jwktl</groupId> <artifactId>jwktl</artifactId> <version>1.0.0</version> </dependency> JWKTL is available as open source software under the Apache License 2.0 (ASL). The software thus comes "as is" without any warranty (see license text for more details). JWKTL makes use of Berkeley DB Java Edition 5.0.73 (Sleepycat License), Apache Ant 1.7.1 (ASL), Xerces 2.9.1 (ASL), JUnit 4.10 (CPL). Some classes have been taken from the Wikokit project (available under multiple licenses, redistributed under the ASL license). See NOTICE.txt for further details. == Contact == Please direct any questions or suggestions to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/jwktl-users Group E-Mail: jwktl-users(a)googlegroups.com Best wishes, Christian M. Meyer -- Christian M. Meyer, M.Sc. Doctoral Researcher Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP Lab) FB 20 Computer Science Department Technische Universität Darmstadt Hochschulstr. 10, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany Phone [+49] (0)6151 16-5386, fax -5455, room S2/02/B113 meyer(a)ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de Web Research at TU Darmstadt (WeRC) www.werc.tu-darmstadt.de

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