I definitely agree that the Automatic taxobox needs a better user interface - that is the biggest obstacle to it's adoption. Right now there is a significant learning curve to being able to use it. I would support a project to improve the user interface of the existing Automatic taxobox, but frankly I don't see much value in using NLP to populate the data. In fact, I would hesitate to automatically populate any of the data for any taxobox from article content. The taxonomy in Wikipedia articles is notoriously unreliable and outdated and very frequently contradictory. Just look through the mess we have in our Zebra articles and you'll see what I mean. And if we can't get Zebras right, imagine what our taxonomy is like for arthropods!
Ryan Kaldari
On 4/2/12 8:20 AM, Ashwin Ravichandran wrote:
Jelle,
I saw the Automatic taxobox. But, it doesn't seem quite user friendly and isn't that what we are working on so that it becomes more feasible? We can use actually use NLP to a major extend using the Text Extraction which can be quite helpful.
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