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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...). | 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...). | ||
Revision as of 22:42, 29 May 2009
| 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: | warning.png"Ontologies and Semantic Web" is not in the list of possible values (Affective Computing, Agents - Multiagent Systems - Agencies, BioSignal Analysis, Computational Intelligence and Games, Computer Vision and Image Analysis, E-Science, Machine Learning, Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Social Software and Semantic Web) for this property.Ontologies and Semantic Web | |
| Research Topic: | Wiki analysis | |
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| Type: | Course | |
| Status: | Proposalwarning.png"Proposal" is not in the list of possible values (Active, Closed) for this property. |
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.
