Mining wikipedia categories

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 (david.laniado@gmail.com), RiccardoTasso (tasso@elet.polimi.it), MarcoColombetti (colombet@elet.polimi.it)
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Students:	1 - 2
CFU:	5 - 20
Research Area:	Social Software and Semantic Web
Research Topic:	Wiki Analysis
Level:	Bs, Ms
Type:	Course, Thesis
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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.