YAWN: A Semantically Annotated Wikipedia XML Corpus

: The paper presents YAWN, a system to convert the well-known and widely used Wikipedia collection into an XML corpus with semantically rich, self-explaining tags. We introduce algorithms to annotate pages and links with concepts from the WordNet thesaurus. This annotation process exploits categorical information in Wikipedia, which is a high-quality, manually assigned source of information, extracts additional information from lists, and utilizes the invocations of templates with named parameters. We give examples how such annotations can be exploited for high-precision queries.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: BTW
• Authors: Ralf Schenkel, Fabian M. Suchanek, Gjergji Kasneci
• Keywords: BTW 2007, Extracts Additional Information, Paper Presents Yawn, WordNet Thesaurus