MediaWiki Developer Meet-Up 2009/Notes/WikiWord

• By user:Duesentrieb

• WikiWord extract a thesaurus from Wikipedia.
  • Homepage: http://brightbyte.de/page/WikiWord
  • thesis extract: http://brightbyte.de/page/WikiWord/Excerpt
  • Navigatior: http://toolserver.org/~daniel/wikiword/wikiword.php
• Thesaurus supplies relations:
  • term <-> concept (meaning relation)
  • concept <-> concept (related, similar, broader, narrower)
  • concepts = wiki articles
  • terms = title, redirect, anchor text, sort key, etc
• multilingual
  • concepts from multiple wikipedias combined
  • terms in multiple languages refering to one concept
• useful for indexing, disambiguation
• plan: multilingual image search for commons (german blog post)
• ideas for improvement:
  • get magic names and patterns from pywikipediabot config
  • use incremental updates as much as possible
  • look at coocurrance in paragraphs, look at co-coocurance
  • for image serach: index by yimage caption (used images)