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Mining wikipedia categories
PrjCFUMax 20  +
PrjCFUMin 5  +
PrjDescription Wikipedia articles are organized in a hier Wikipedia articles are organized in a hierarchy of categories, manually assigned by users. This process can be considered a huge effort for the collective categorization of human knowledge; the result is a wide and disordered graph which can provide precious information for a variety of applications (natural language processing, information retrieval, ontology building...). In the project "Wikipedia Category Map" a tool has been developed to extract the graph of Wikipedia categories, to store it in RDF format and to interactively visualize and explore it. Aim of this project is to analyze the resulting graph for the extraction of semantic relationships; for example it is possible to define metrics of distance between topics in the graph, which can be useful for various purposes in information retrieval. various purposes in information retrieval.
PrjImage Image:wikipedia_categories.png  +
PrjLevel Bachelor of Science + , Master of Science +
PrjResArea Social Software and Semantic Web +
PrjResTopic Semantic Tagging +
PrjStarts 7 July 2009  +
PrjStatus Closed  +
PrjStudMax 2  +
PrjStudMin 1  +
PrjTitle Wikipedia category map  +
PrjTutor User:DavidLaniado + , User:RiccardoTasso + , User:MarcoColombetti +
PrjType Course + , Thesis +
Categories ProjectProposal  +
Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki. 28 April 2011 16:00:29  +
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