Wikipedia Infobox Generator Using Cross Lingual Unstructured Text

Wikipedia Infobox Generator By Combining Multi Lingual Unstructured Text

Team Members

• Anirudh Koul
• Daegun Won
• Tony Navas

Project Idea

Key facts about Wikipedia articles are often mentioned in short block sections called 'InfoBoxes'. For example, an article on Brazil would mention "Capital:Brasília", "Largest city:São Paulo", "Official language : Portuguese", etc. As these infoboxes are manually created & maintained, several articles have either missing or outdated information (that got revised in the plain text.

Corpus

• Wikipedia XML Dumps (Current Revision only)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_database#Other_languages
• English corpus size - 31 GB Uncompressed
• With 5 languages, approximately 200 GB total

Reference Papers

• Wu, Weld. Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management CIKM 2007
• Eytan Adar , Michael Skinner , Daniel S. Weld, Information arbitrage across multi-lingual Wikipedia, Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, February 09-12, 2009, Barcelona, Spain