Acquiring a Taxonomy from the German Wikipedia

This paper presents the process of acquiring a large, domain independent, taxonomy from the German Wikipedia. We build upon a previously implemented platform that extracts a semantic network and taxonomy from the English version of the Wikipedia. We describe two accomplishments of our work: the semantic network for the German language in which isa links are identified and annotated, and an expansion of the platform for easy adaptation for a new language. We identify the platform's strengths and shortcomings, which stem from the scarcity of free processing resources for languages other than English. We show that the taxonomy induction process is highly reliable

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Laura Kassner, Vivi Nastase, Michael Strube
• Keywords: Education, German Wikipedia, LREC 2008, Semantic Network, Taxonomy