Manypedia: Comparing language points of view of Wikipedia communities

WikiSym 2012 Conference Proceedings - 8th Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Massa, Paolo ^a   Scrinzi, Federico ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

Author keywords

automatic translation; cross cultural comparison; languages; linguistic point of view; open source; web tool; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISONS; OPEN SOURCES; POINT OF VIEWS; WEB TOOLS; WIKIPEDIA;

LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84877632982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2462932.2462960     Document Type: Conference Paper

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