Semantic Wikipedia Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:867707, abstract = {Wikipedia is the world's largest collaboratively edited source of encyclopaedic knowledge. But in spite of its utility, its contents are barely machine-interpretable. Structural knowledge, e.,g. about how concepts are interrelated, can neither be formally stated nor automatically processed. Also the wealth of numerical data is only available as plain text and thus can not be processed by its actual meaning.We provide an extension to be integrated in Wikipedia, that allows the typing of links between articles and the specification of typed data inside the articles in an easy-to-use manner.Enabling even casual users to participate in the creation of an open semantic knowledge base, Wikipedia has the chance to become a resource of semantic statements, hitherto unknown regarding size, scope, openness, and internationalisation. These semantic enhancements bring to Wikipedia benefits of today's semantic technologies: more specific ways of searching and browsing. Also, the RDF export, that gives direct access to the formalised knowledge, opens Wikipedia up to a wide range of external applications, that will be able to use it as a background knowledge base.In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and possible uses of this extension.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {V\"{o}lkel, Max and Kr\"{o}tzsch, Markus and Vrandecic, Denny and Haller, Heiko and Studer, Rudi}, booktitle = {WWW '06: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web}, citeulike-article-id = {867707}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1135777.1135863}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1135777.1135863}, doi = {10.1145/1135777.1135863}, isbn = {1-59593-323-9}, keywords = {s, semantic, wikipedia}, location = {Edinburgh, Scotland}, pages = {585--594}, posted-at = {2006-09-27 19:28:19}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Semantic Wikipedia}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1135777.1135863}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:867707 L3 - citeulike-article-id:867707 N2 - Wikipedia is the world's largest collaboratively edited source of encyclopaedic knowledge. But in spite of its utility, its contents are barely machine-interpretable. Structural knowledge, e.,g. about how concepts are interrelated, can neither be formally stated nor automatically processed. Also the wealth of numerical data is only available as plain text and thus can not be processed by its actual meaning.We provide an extension to be integrated in Wikipedia, that allows the typing of links between articles and the specification of typed data inside the articles in an easy-to-use manner.Enabling even casual users to participate in the creation of an open semantic knowledge base, Wikipedia has the chance to become a resource of semantic statements, hitherto unknown regarding size, scope, openness, and internationalisation. These semantic enhancements bring to Wikipedia benefits of today's semantic technologies: more specific ways of searching and browsing. Also, the RDF export, that gives direct access to the formalised knowledge, opens Wikipedia up to a wide range of external applications, that will be able to use it as a background knowledge base.In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and possible uses of this extension. CY - Edinburgh, Scotland SN - 1-59593-323-9 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 594 TI - Semantic Wikipedia PB - ACM T2 - WWW '06: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web SP - 585 KW - s KW - semantic KW - wikipedia AU - Völkel, Max AU - Krötzsch, Markus AU - Vrandecic, Denny AU - Haller, Heiko AU - Studer, Rudi PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1135777.1135863 ER -