Harvesting Wiki Consensus: Using Wikipedia Entries as Vocabulary for Knowledge Management

  • Authors:
  • Martin Hepp;Katharina Siorpaes;Daniel Bachlechner

  • Affiliations:
  • Digital Enterprise Research Institute, University of Innsbruck;Digital Enterprise Research Institute, University of Innsbruck;Digital Enterprise Research Institute, University of Innsbruck

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Vocabularies that provide unique identifiers for conceptual elements of a domain can improve precision and recall in knowledge-management applications. Although creating and maintaining such vocabularies is generally hard, wiki users easily manage to develop comprehensive, informal definitions of terms, each one identified by a URI. Here, the authors show that the URIs of Wikipedia entries are reliable identifiers for conceptual entities. They also demonstrate how Wikipedia entries can be used for annotating Web resources and knowledge assets and give precise estimates of the amount of Wikipedia URIs in terms of the popular Proton ontology's top-level concepts.