Analysis of the wikipedia category graph for NLP applications

HLT-NAACL 2007 - TextGraphs 2007: Graph-Based Algorithms for Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-8

  Zesch, Torsten ^a   Gurevych, Iryna ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPH-THEORETIC; LEXICAL SEMANTIC NETWORKS; SCALE-FREE; SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS; SMALL WORLD GRAPHS; TWO-GRAPHS; WIKIPEDIA; WORDNET;

ALGORITHMS; GRAPHIC METHODS; SEMANTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955823590     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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