MENTA: Inducing multilingual taxonomies from Wikipedia

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1099-1108

  De Melo, Gerard ^a   Weikum, Gerhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algorithms

Indexed keywords

GRAPH PARTITIONING; KNOWLEDGE BASIS; LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE; MARKOV CHAIN; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RANKING APPROACH; TAXONOMIC CLASS; WIKIPEDIA; WORDNET;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MARKOV PROCESSES;

TAXONOMIES;

EID: 78651269398     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1871437.1871577     Document Type: Conference Paper

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