Automatic Taxonomy Extraction in Different Languages Using Wikipedia and Minimal Language-Specific Information

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Automatic Taxonomy Extraction in Different Languages Using Wikipedia and Minimal Language-Specific Information
Authors
Renato Domínguez García
Sebastian Schmidt
Christoph Rensing
Ralf Steinmetz
Publication date
2012
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-28604-9_4
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Automatic Taxonomy Extraction in Different Languages Using Wikipedia and Minimal Language-Specific Information - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2012, written by Renato Domínguez García, Sebastian Schmidt, Christoph Rensing and Ralf Steinmetz.

Overview

Knowledge bases extracted from Wikipedia are particularly useful for various NLP and Semantic Web applications due to their co- verage, actuality and multilingualism. This has led to many approaches for automatic knowledge base extraction from Wikipedia. Most of these approaches rely on the English Wikipedia as it is the largest Wikipedia version. However, each Wikipedia version contains socio-cultural knowledge, i.e. knowledge with relevance for a specific culture or language. In this work, authors describe a method for extracting a large set of hyponymy relations from the Wikipedia category system that can be used to acquire taxonomies in multiple languages. More specifically, authors describe a set of 20 features that can be used for for Hyponymy Detection without using additional language-specific corpora. Finally, authors evaluate approach on Wikipedia in five different languages and compare the results with the WordNet taxonomy and a multilingual approach based on interwiki links of the Wikipedia.

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García, Renato Domínguez; Schmidt, Sebastian; Rensing, Christoph; Steinmetz, Ralf. (2012). "[[Automatic Taxonomy Extraction in Different Languages Using Wikipedia and Minimal Language-Specific Information]]". Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28604-9_4.

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García, Renato Domínguez; Schmidt, Sebastian; Rensing, Christoph; Steinmetz, Ralf. (2012). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Automatic_Taxonomy_Extraction_in_Different_Languages_Using_Wikipedia_and_Minimal_Language-Specific_Information">Automatic Taxonomy Extraction in Different Languages Using Wikipedia and Minimal Language-Specific Information</a>&quot;. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28604-9_4.