Mining meaning from Wikipedia

被引:188
作者
Medelyan, Olena [1 ]
Milne, David [1 ]
Legg, Catherine [1 ]
Witten, Ian H. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Waikato, Hamilton 3216, New Zealand
关键词
Wikipedia; Text mining; Wikipedia mining; NLP; Information retrieval; Information extraction; Ontologies; Semantic web; SEMANTIC WEB; CONTEXT; SIMILARITY;
D O I
10.1016/j.ijhcs.2009.05.004
中图分类号
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
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. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:716 / 754
页数:39
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