Wikipedia Mining for an Association Web Thesaurus Construction

Wikipedia has become a huge phenomenon on the WWW. As a corpus for knowledge extraction, it has various impressive characteristics such as a huge amount of articles, live updates, a dense link structure, brief link texts and URL identification for concepts. In this paper, we propose an efficient link mining method pfibf (Path Frequency - Inversed Backward link Frequency) and the extension method “forward / backward link weighting (FB weighting)” in order to construct a huge scale association thesaurus. We proved the effectiveness of our proposed methods compared with other conventional methods such as cooccurrence analysis and TF-IDF.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: WISE
• Authors: Kotaro Nakayama, Takahiro Hara, Shojiro Nishio
• Keywords: Brief Link Texts, Dense Link Structure, Internet Technology, Link, WISE 2007