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Re: A thesaurus, wikis and text mining

mndoci — Sun, 27 May 2007 12:07:22 -0000

I use Freebase as an example since I am somewhat familiar with it and quite like the model that it uses. In general, you can replace "Freebase" with an approach that allows the average researcher/scientist with domain knowledge to add structure on top of data and then use this structure to determine additional relationships (which is what SemanticMediaWiki seems to do as well). I will definitely check it out.

Re: A thesaurus, wikis and text mining

Steven Forth — Sun, 27 May 2007 08:17:13 -0000

Rather than a Freebase approach, which is also proprietary, why not use the Semantic MediaWiki. This is an open source application that adds a semantic layer to the Mediawiki application that runs Wikipedia. We have had great success using it as a system on which people build and collaborate around their learning plans. The RDF can be exported and used for other purposes in more robust systems. We are experimenting with usng RDF feeds from one of our semantic wikis to build OWL models.

Re: A thesaurus, wikis and text mining

AJ Cann — Sat, 26 May 2007 03:25:07 -0000

Yet another medical wiki:
http://scienceoftheinvisibl...

You're quite right, this project will not be successful, especially since it deviates from the current open source ethos.