Abstract

We investigate the integration of Wiki systems with automated natural language processing (NLP) techniques. The vision is that of a "self-aware" Wiki system reading, understanding, transforming, and writing its own content, as well as supporting its users in information analysis and content development. We provide a number of practical application examples, including index generation, question answering, and automatic summarization, which demonstrate the practicability and usefulness of this idea. A system architecture providing the integration is presented, as well as first results from an initial implementation based on the GATE framework for NLP and the MediaWiki system.

General Terms: Design, Human Factors, Languages
Keywords: Self-aware Wiki System, Wiki/NLP Integration

Reference

René Witte and Thomas Gitzinger. Connecting Wikis and Natural Language Processing Systems. Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym 2007), pp.165-176, October 21-23, 2007, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Co-located with ACM OOPSLA 2007. ACM, New York, NY, USA.

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@inproceedings{WitGiz07,
   author    = {Ren\'{e} Witte and Thomas Gitzinger},
   title     = {{Connecting Wikis and 
                Natural Language Processing Systems}},
   booktitle = {WikiSym '07: Proceedings of the 
                2007 International Symposium on Wikis},
   year      = {2007},
   isbn      = {978-1-59593-861-9},
   pages     = {165--176},
   location  = {Montr\'{e}al, Qu\'{e}bec, Canada},
   doi       = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1296951.1296969},
   publisher = {ACM},
   address   = {New York, NY, USA},
   url       = {http://rene-witte.net/connecting-wikis-and-nlp}
}

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