Wikipedia Category

A Wikipedia Category is a Category/Concept Class to help group Wikipedia Article Pages.

• AKA: Wikipedia Topic.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) be a Wikipedia Concept.
  • It can (typically) be a member of a Wikipedia Category Network.
• Example(s):
  • Mathematics and logic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/Mathematics_and_logic)
  • People and self
• See: Concept Class.

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References

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/Lists_of_topics

General reference
Culture and the arts
Geography and places
Health and fitness
History and events
Mathematics and logic
Natural and physical sciences
People and self
Philosophy and thinking
Religion and belief systems
Society and social sciences
Technology and applied sciences

2013

• (Radhakrishnan & Varma, 2013) ⇒ Priya Radhakrishnan, and Vasudeva Varma. (2013). “Extracting Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia Category Names.” In: Proceedings of the 2013 workshop on Automated knowledge base construction. ISBN:978-1-4503-2411-3 doi:10.1145/2509558.2509577
  • QUOTE: Wikipedia articles form a network of semantically related terms, while the categories are organized in a taxonomy-like structure called Wikipedia Category Network (WCN)(Zesch & Gurevych, 2007). In categorizing an article under a category, human judgment is involved. ...

2007

• (Zesch & Gurevych, 2007) ⇒ Torsten Zesch, and Iryna Gurevych. (2007). “Analysis of the Wikipedia Category Graph for NLP Applications.” In: Proceedings of the TextGraphs-2 Workshop.

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