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title = "A Cross-Lingual Dictionary for {E}nglish {W}ikipedia Concepts",
author = "Spitkovsky, Valentin I. and
Chang, Angel X.",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'12)",
month = may,
year = "2012",
address = "Istanbul, Turkey",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/266_Paper.pdf",
pages = "3168--3175",
abstract = "We present a resource for automatically associating strings of text with English Wikipedia concepts. Our machinery is bi-directional, in the sense that it uses the same fundamental probabilistic methods to map strings to empirical distributions over Wikipedia articles as it does to map article URLs to distributions over short, language-independent strings of natural language text. For maximal inter-operability, we release our resource as a set of flat line-based text files, lexicographically sorted and encoded with UTF-8. These files capture joint probability distributions underlying concepts (we use the terms article, concept and Wikipedia URL interchangeably) and associated snippets of text, as well as other features that can come in handy when working with Wikipedia articles and related information.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[A Cross-Lingual Dictionary for English Wikipedia Concepts](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/266_Paper.pdf) (Spitkovsky & Chang, LREC 2012)
ACL
- Valentin I. Spitkovsky and Angel X. Chang. 2012. A Cross-Lingual Dictionary for English Wikipedia Concepts. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 3168–3175, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).