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WikiWord is a system for building a Thesaurus by extracting lexical and semantic information from Wikipedia. It was originally developed for a diploma thesis at the University of Leipzig. Development is continued by Wikimedia Deutschland.

Thesis

WikiWords has been developed as a diploma thesis:

Daniel Kinzler, Automatischer Aufbau eines multilingualen Thesaurus durch Extraktion semantischer und lexikalischer Relationen aus der Wikipedia, Diplomarbeit an der Abteilung für Automatische Sprachverarbeitung, Institut für Informatik, Universität Leipzig, 2008.

• Full Thesis (German)
  • Canonical location at brightbyte.de: <http://brightbyte.de/DA/WikiWord.pdf> -- for the curious, http://brightbyte.de/DA/ also contains source code and data. More downloads can be found at http://brightbyte.de/download/
  • Canonical entry at the universitie's document server: <http://lips.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/pub/2008-4>, deep link <http://lips.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/files/2008-4.pdf>.
  • Errata
• English version of some key parts: Outline of a method for building a multilingual thesaurus from Wikipedia
• English language conference paper: WikiWord - multilingual image search and more, presentation video (OGG), slides
• BibSonomy entry
• Demo Page: http://toolserver.org/~daniel/wikiword/wikiword.php
• BibTex:

@mastersthesis{kinzler2008th,
  title = {Automatischer Aufbau eines multilingualen Thesaurus durch Extraktion semantischer und lexikalischer Relationen aus der Wikipedia},
  author = {Daniel Kinzler},
  note = {also avialable at http://lips.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/pub/2008-4},
  school = {Universität Leipzig},
  url = {http://brightbyte.de/DA/WikiWord.pdf},
  year = {2008},
  keywords = {named-entities relatedness thesaurus thesis translation wikipedia }
} 

The thesis is licensed under the GFDL, WikiWord is GPL software. All data taken or derived from wikipedia is GFDL.

A short (and a bit outdated) expose is at WikiWord/Expose (German).

A research paper in english is planned for the near future.

Papers

• WikiWord thesis presentation for the ASV research seminar
• Building Language-Independent Concepts from Wikipedia, short paper presented at Babel Wiki workshop at WikiSym 2008.
• Quick overview of how WikiWord collects information, preseted at the Siggener Zeit. (German)
• Meta-Data in Wikipedia (at the Dublin Cor econference)
• Automatic indexing with WikiWord (German, Summary for a presentation at the Fraunhofer Institute)
  • Presentation Slides
• WikiWord - multilingual image search and more (at Wikimania 2009 - slides)

See also

• WikiWord/material contains a loose collection of links related to WikiWord
• WikiWord/scrap is the scrapbook for plannign the thesis. now disused and obsolete.
• WikiWord/roadmap -- things I plan or hope to do in the forseeable future.
• WikiWord navigator demo (proof of concept)