Automated Text Wikification Task

A Automated Text Wikification Task is a semantic text annotation task that translates a text document into a wikitext document.

• Context:
  • Input: a Text Document.
    • optional input: a Knowledge Base.
  • output: a WikiText Document.
  • It can be solved by a Text Wikification System (that implements a wikification algorithm).
  • It can be supported by:
    • a Term Mention Detection Task.
    • a Term Mention Reference Resolution Task.
  • It can range from being a Manual Wikification Task to being a Automated Wikitext Annotation Task.
  • It can range from being a General Knowledge-based Wikification Task to being a Domain-Specific Wikification Task.
  • It can range from (typically) being a Same-Language Wikification Task to being a Cross-Language Wikification Task.
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• Example(s):
  • Wikipedia-directed Wikification.
  • GMRKB-based Wikification.
  • RPWO Project.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Wiki Page Editing Task, such as wiki page creation.
  • an All-Words Word Sense Disambiguation Task (vs. target-words WSD).
  • a WikiText Auto-Completion Task.
• See: Wiki Editing, Wiki Content Management, Semantic Wiki Page.

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References

2016

• (Tsai & Roth, 2016) ⇒ Chen-Tse Tsai, and Dan Roth. (2016). “Cross-lingual Wikification Using Multilingual Embeddings.” In: Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies.
  • QUOTE: ... Cross-lingual Wikification is the task of grounding mentions written in non-English documents to entries in the English Wikipedia. This task involves the problem of comparing textual clues across languages, which requires developing a notion of similarity between text snippets across languages. In this paper, we address this problem by jointly training multilingual embeddings for words and Wikipedia titles. ...

2015

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wikify#Verb
  1. (transitive, of text or other content) To adapt to the standards and facilities of an existing wiki.
     • 2001 May 22, Jeff Hobbs, “Re: memory usage in tcl”, comp.lang.tcl, Usenet:
       • This is definitely worth wikifying.
     • 2007 Lisa Neal, My Life as a Wikipedian, “eLearn Magazine”:
       • I added a justification, and tried to "wikify" the entry, which involved adding references and reformatting the text.
     • 2007, T. Scott Plutchak, “What's a Serial When You're Running on Internet Time?”[1], The Serials Librarian: 
       • We don't yet know how blogs will evolve, and it is almost certain that what we will be using in ten years will be very different from what we might be using now––but who will be taking the lead in making sure that these are organized and preserved and described in such a way that we can guide someone to the relevant blog posting or wikified document as readily as we now direct them to a particular journal article?
  2. (transitive) To make into a wiki, or to use a wiki approach for.
     • 2005 June 26, Frank Kane, “Eureka! Journalists may not be doomed after all”:
       • The Los Angeles Times proved this last week, with its high-minded but ultimately hilarious attempt to 'wikify ' its editorial column.
     • 2008 March 21, Elizabeth Pennisi, “Proposal to 'Wikify' GenBank Meets Stiff Resistance”[2], Science: 
       • Although he's adamant that NCBI is not going to "wikify" GenBank, Lipman says he's eager to work with mycologists to come up with a solution, possibly through RefSeq.
  3. (intransitive) To use or participate in a wiki.
     • 2007 May 1, Graeme Philipson quoting Bruce McCabe, “On the cusp of another digital revolution”:
       • "They can blog and podcast and 'wikify ' and do all sorts of things we could not even imagine until very recently."

2014

• (Roth et al., 2014) ⇒ Dan Roth, Heng Ji, Ming‐Wei Chang, and Taylor Cassidy. (2014). “Wikification and Beyond: The Challenges of Entity and Concept Grounding." Tutorial at ACL 2014.
  • QUOTE: ... Contextual disambiguation and grounding of concepts and entities in natural language text are essential to moving forward in many natural language understanding related tasks and are fundamental to many applications. The Wikification task (Bunescu and Pasca, 2006; Mihalcea and Csomai, 2007; Ratinov et al., 2011) aims at automatically identifying concept mentions appearing in a text document and link it to (or “ground it in”) a concept referent in a knowledge base (KB) (e.g., Wikipedia). ...

2010

• (Melli, 2010a) ⇒ Gabor Melli. (2010). “Concept Mentions within KDD-2009 Abstracts (kdd09cma1) Linked to a KDD Ontology (kddo1).” In: Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010).
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2007

• (Mihalcea & Csomai, 2007) ⇒ Rada Mihalcea, and Andras Csomai. (2007). “Wikify!: Linking documents to encyclopedic knowledge.” In: Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. doi:10.1145/1321440.1321475

2006

• (Bunescu & Paşca, 2006) ⇒ Razvan C. Bunescu, Marius Paşca. (2006). “Using Encyclopedic Knowledge for Named Entity Disambiguation.” In: Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2006).

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