Re: [Wiki-research-l] thesis: automatically building a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia

2008-05-30 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Nice job, please add it to WP:ACST so it can be known to a wider audience. -- Prokonsul Piotrus aka Piotr Konieczny ||| __ __ I=I__|_|I__I= Lennier, get us the hell out of here. ||| Initiating 'getting the hell out of here' maneuver. --

Re: [Wiki-research-l] thesis: automatically building a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia

2008-05-30 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Luca de Alfaro wrote: This looks very interesting! Is this a thesaurus that can be used for translation of words across languages? Yes, in the sense that it (potentially) contains labels in different languages for the same concept. Is there some way to quickly have a demo or view the data?

Re: [Wiki-research-l] thesis: automatically building a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia

2008-05-30 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Desilets, Alain wrote: I was able to convert the PDF file to .txt. Not very readable, but should be good enough to allow me to gist the content through Google translate. But in order to do that, it would be useful if I posted the .txt file somewhere on the web. Do you mind if I do that?

Re: [Wiki-research-l] thesis: automatically building a multilingualthesaurus from wikipedia

2008-05-30 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Desilets, Alain wrote: Is there documentation about how to use this code? Some -- in german, in the thesis. Frankly, finishing 30k lines of code and 220 pages of thesis in 7 monthes proved to be a bit tight :) Which pages of the thesis? Well, it depends on what you mean by use the code.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] thesis: automatically building a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia

2008-05-30 Thread Desilets, Alain
PS: this must be the fastest mail exchange i have had in a while. Do you use IRC? I'm on freenode.net as Duesentrieb frequently (and right now). I use Skype myself. I am alain_desilets there. Alain ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list

Re: [Wiki-research-l] thesis: automatically building a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia

2008-05-30 Thread Desilets, Alain
Go right ahead, it's GFDL :) Post the link for the benefit of others too. Hm... I guess we should be careful about one point: please make sure this is clearly credited to me. I only handed it in yesterday. Someone is going to check if i stole the text from somehwere. So when it does show up,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] thesis: automatically building a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia

2008-05-30 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Desilets, Alain wrote: PS: this must be the fastest mail exchange i have had in a while. Do you use IRC? I'm on freenode.net as Duesentrieb frequently (and right now). I use Skype myself. I am alain_desilets there. Hm, I dislike Skype... it doesn't play too well with (my) linux, and they

Re: [Wiki-research-l] thesis: automatically building a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia

2008-05-30 Thread Desilets, Alain
I posted it here: http://www.wiki-translation.com/tiki- index.php?page=DanielKinzlerThesisbl=n You can see the English translation here: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wiki- translation.com%2Ftiki-

Re: [Wiki-research-l] thesis: automatically building a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia

2008-05-30 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hum... If I go to the above translation link, only the first bit is actually translated. I guess Google gives up after a while and leaves the rest in German. If you can split it into separate HTML pages, it would make it easier for people to read it with Google translate. I guess before