English translation of selected chapters of the WikiWord thesis "Automatischer Aufbau eines multilingualen Thesaurus durch Extraktion semantischer und lexikalischer Relationen aus der Wikipedia" by Daniel Kinzler. Translation by the author.
My diploma thesis about a system to automatically build a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia, "WikiWord", is finally done. I handed it in yesterday. My research will hopefully help to make Wikipedia more accessible for automatic processing
the data here is useful for testing classification / clustering, and the accuracy of indexing techniques. However the datasets are too small to make claims about the efficiency of indexing.
L. Wu, M. Li, Z. Li, W. Ma, and N. Yu. MIR '07: Proceedings of the international workshop on Workshop on multimedia information retrieval, page 115--124. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2007)
P. Eklund, and P. Deer. Proceedings of the 9th Int. Conf. on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty (IPMU 2002), page 187-194. ESIA - Universite Savoie, (2002)presentation slides.
K. Fung, and O. Bodenreider. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, (2005)Fung, Kin Wah Bodenreider, Olivier Evaluation Studies Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural United States AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium.