About this mailing list, was: Re: Two use cases for Wiktionary RDF

(I'm cross posting to dbpedia-wiktionary-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org)

Hi Thomas,
interesting, that you posted on this list. It is the discussion list 
list for Wiktionary in general.
I did a mail count for this list for 2011 and this is the result:
29 mails total
11 were general announcements such as the Wikimania
10 were about Wiktionary issues
8 were about information extraction of Wiktionary (Mostly caused by us 
and the Wiktionary RDF Extraction announcement).

2010 looks similar.

I was wondering, if the extraction of data from Wiktionary could become 
a main topic on this list.

Shall we merge communities into this list?

1. There is a DBpedia Wiktionary  to RDF list with 18 members here:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-wiktionary

2. Then some people might join from http://linguistics.okfn.org/
http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-linguistics
This is a Working Group for Open Data in Linguistics and there are maybe 
5-10 people there that are interested in extraction of structured data 
from Wiktionary.

3. People from many approaches such as  
http://code.google.com/p/wikokit/ (does not seem to have a mailing list) 
could be redirected here.

In the end all want to get structured data out  of Wiktionary. If this 
would be possible, the number of Wiki editors would also increase.

What do you think? I am not sure about all ramification, but focusing 
all efforts on Wiktionary-l would be nice and would benefit Wiktionary.
Sebastian





On 01/11/2012 03:50 PM, Thomas Schandl wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I recently found your very interesting projects as I was looking for
> semantically rich dumps of Wiktionary, and I wanted to tell you about my
> use cases.
>
> I work for the Semantic Web Company (we are also partners in the LOD2
> project) and we have a term and phrase extractor, which we want to
> improve by enriching the extraction model with their various grammatical
> forms of the model's terms.
>
> So additions we are most interested in are declinations, tenses and
> synonyms for German and English.
> Another use case would be to use Wiktionary data to suggest translations
> of controlled terms in a thesaurus. So the available translations would
> be great to have in RDF, too.
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas


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Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann
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