View source for Mining wikipedia categories

{{ProjectProposal
|title=Wikipedia category map
|image=wikipedia_categories.png
|description=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...).
Aim of the project is the development of a tool for the visualization of this graph. The project can be extended to a thesis in various directions, as the development of advanced visualization features or the creation and population of an ontology.
|tutor=DavidLaniado;RiccardoTasso;MarcoColombetti
|cfumin=5
|cfumax=20
|studmin=1
|studmax=2
|resarea=Ontologies and Semantic Web
|restopic=Wiki analysis
|level=Bs+Ms
|type=Course
|status=Proposal
}}

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...).
Aim of the project is the development of a tool for the visualization of this graph. The project can be extended to a thesis in various directions, as the development of advanced visualization features or the creation and population of an ontology.

;Tools and instruments
:the software can be implemented in any programming language; we have already developed a java prototype that queries the wikipedia APIs, which can be used as a starting point.