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      Mining meaning from Wikipedia

      Medelyan, Olena; Legg, Catherine; Milne, David N.; Witten, Ian H.
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      Medelyan, O., Legg, C., Milne, D. & Witten, I.H. (2008). Mining meaning from Wikipedia. (Working paper 11/2008). Hamilton, New Zealand: University of Waikato, Department of Computer Science.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/981
      Abstract
      Wikipedia is a goldmine of information; not just for its many readers, but also for the growing community of researchers who recognize it as a resource of exceptional scale and utility. It represents a vast investment of manual effort and judgment: a huge, constantly evolving tapestry of concepts and relations that is being applied to a host of tasks.

      This article provides a comprehensive description of this work. It focuses on research that extracts and makes use of the concepts, relations, facts and descriptions found in Wikipedia, and organizes the work into four broad categories: applying Wikipedia to natural language processing; using it to facilitate information retrieval and information extraction; and as a resource for ontology building. The article addresses how Wikipedia is being used as is, how it is being improved and adapted, and how it is being combined with other structures to create entirely new resources. We identify the research groups and individuals involved, and how their work has developed in the last few years. We provide a comprehensive list of the open-source software they have produced. We also discuss the implications of this work for the long-awaited semantic web.
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      2008-09
      Type
      Working Paper
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      Computer Science Working Papers
      Report No.
      11/2008
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      University of Waikato, Department of Computer Science
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