Linking Online Dictionaries to Wikipedia

Linking Online Dictionaries to Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2015, written by Vinh Q. Tran and Tru H. Cao.

Overview

In a dictionary, a word can have different senses, and each sense is described by a gloss. However, a gloss is short and may not be satisfactorily informative to users. Meanwhile, mostly each word sense has a corresponding article in Wikipedia that contains rich information about the concept expressed by the word sense. In this work, authors propose two different methods to link online dictionary word senses to the appropriate Wikipedia articles, namely, text similarity and machine learning. Experimental results on Wiktionary and Oxford English Dictionary are also presented.