Analysis on the applications of Wikipedia in Chinese information processing

Author

Wang, Rongbo ; Chen, Zhiqun ; Wang, Xiaohua ; Huang, Xiaoxi

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Applic. Technol., Hangzhou Dianzi Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2011

fDate

26-28 July 2011

Firstpage

3424

Lastpage

3427

Abstract

As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia has the advantages of large amount of information, wide coverage and timely updating. The Wikipedia is constructed and shared by all users. Currently, with comparison to the applications of other language resources such as WordNet and Hownet in natural language processing (NLP), Wikipedia is seldom used in NLP by researchers. In this paper, firstly, the main characteristics of Wikipedia are analyzed. Then its applications in areas of NLP are introduced, especially in Chinese information processing. Finally, after a more detailed comparison among Wikipedia, WordNet and HowNet, we conclude that Wikipedia will become a very important language resource and be applied to Chinese information processing by more and more researchers.

Keywords

Web sites; encyclopaedias; information analysis; natural language processing; Chinese information processing; Hownet; NLP; Wikipedia; WordNet; encyclopedia; language resources; natural language processing; Artificial intelligence; Electronic publishing; Encyclopedias; Information processing; Internet; Semantics; Chinese Information Processing; HowNet; Wikipedia; WordNet;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Technology (ICMT), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-771-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMT.2011.6002315

Filename

6002315