The Role of Wikipedia in Text Analysis and Retrieval

Marius Paşca


Abstract
This tutorial examines the characteristics, advantages and limitations of Wikipedia relative to other existing, human-curated resources of knowledge; derivative resources, created by converting semi-structured content in Wikipedia into structured data; the role of Wikipedia and its derivatives in text analysis; and the role of Wikipedia and its derivatives in enhancing information retrieval.
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C16-3007
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Marcello Federico, Akiko Aizawa
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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22
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Marius Paşca. 2016. The Role of Wikipedia in Text Analysis and Retrieval. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts, page 22, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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