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Wikipedia articles is notoriously unreliable and outdated and very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.
Cheers,
Ashwin
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