WikiPics: multilingual image search based on Wiki-mining

This demonstration introduces WikiPics, a language-independent image search engine for Wikimedia Commons. Based on the multilingual thesaurus provided by WikiWord, WikiPics allows users to search and navigate Wikimedia Commons in their preferred language, even though images on Commons are annotated in English nearly exclusively. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.1 [Information storage and retrieval]: Content Analysis and Indexing – Dictionaries, Thesauruses. H.3.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Information Retrieval – Clustering, Search process, Selection process. H.3.5 [On-Line Information services]: Web-based services. Keywords Wikipedia, Search, Thesaurus, Translation, Dictionary, Multilingual, Navigation.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: WIKIS
• Authors: Daniel Kinzler
• Keywords: Information Storage, Internet Technology, Language-independent Image Search, Wikimedia Commons, WIKIS 2010