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

Great idea! I'm pro. The bigger the knowledge-network, the more
opportunities.

Grtngs,
Cedric
Op 20-jan.-2012 17:00 schreef "Sebastian Hellmann" <
hellmann-jNDFPZUTrfTw9Zu3TmXbXSJk02hg1TJes0AfqQuZ5sE@public.gmane.org> het volgende:

> (I'm cross posting to dbpedia-wiktionary@lists.**sourceforge.net<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<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<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/ <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
> Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
> Projects: http://nlp2rdf.org , http://dbpedia.org
> Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-**leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann<http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann>
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