tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post6464287616012098821..comments2024-03-29T05:14:10.903-07:00Comments on Geeking with Greg: Using Wikipedia to disambiguate namesGreg Lindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-33525404255665112222007-08-08T19:20:00.000-07:002007-08-08T19:20:00.000-07:00The interesting aspect of this is not the Wikipedi...The interesting aspect of this is not the Wikipedia part, but the fact that for the last 5+ years human edited content was considered not scalable for search engine purposes, hence the demise of Yahoo Directory and LookSmart. And now, through the proxy of Wikipedia, we are back at looking how humans do a much better job a certain tasks.<BR/><BR/>PS: I think I actually worked with Silviu on a phrasal speller for MSN Search circa 2003.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-85264126895618741942007-08-08T19:01:00.000-07:002007-08-08T19:01:00.000-07:00It's a great way to disambiguate, *but* all these ...It's a great way to disambiguate, *but* all these edge uses seem to create edge spam that's harder to detect.Kingsley Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18383289415813955915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-57196462768213389302007-08-08T13:35:00.000-07:002007-08-08T13:35:00.000-07:00Good find. I was on program committee for this wo...Good find. I was on program committee for this working group at WWW2007 this year and we got a lot of really interesting submissions in the same vein. See http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-249/ for the list of papers. The first entry on the list did similar mining of Wikipedia, and I think another of the ones that were selected also did.Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09929828916025902777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-7512617860391633572007-08-08T11:16:00.000-07:002007-08-08T11:16:00.000-07:00I am surprised that people haven't looked at Wikip...I am surprised that people haven't looked at Wikipedia and Collaborative Filtering yet. Wikipedia offers millions of editor profiles. Sky is the limit on what one can do with these profiles, find related articles, find related users, recommend articles for editing to specific users, find related phrases, you name it.<BR/><BR/>Recommendation technologies can accelerate and improve content creation in Wikipedia. There will always be articles in need for editing and by using the editor profiles we can match these articles to the most suitable editors.<BR/><BR/>There are so many articles in need of improvement that remain in poor-quality only because the right people to improve them, don't know they are there. Wikipedia is a classic example of a Long Tail, and Long Tail can be leveraged through recommendations and personalization.Φιλελεύθεροςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08823236284690023268noreply@blogger.com