WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP ABOUT? - Extracting Information about Relationships from Wikipedia

Brigitte Mathiak, Victor Manuel Martínez Peña, Andias Wira-Alam

2012

Abstract

What is the relationship between terms? Document analysis tells us that ”Crime” is close to ”Victim” and not so close to ”Banana”. While for common terms like Sun and Light the nature of the relationship is clear, the measure becomes more fuzzy when dealing with more uncommonly used terms and concepts and partial information. Semantic relatedness is typically calculated from an encyclopedia like Wikipedia, but Wikipedia contains a lot of information that is not common knowledge. So, when a computer calculates that Belarus and Ukraine are closely related, what does it mean to me as a human? In this paper, we take a look at perceived relationship and qualify it in a human-readable way. The result is a search engine, designed to take two terms and explain how they relate to each other. We evaluate this through a user study which gauges how useful this extra information is to humans when making a judgment about relationships.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mathiak B., Manuel Martínez Peña V. and Wira-Alam A. (2012). WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP ABOUT? - Extracting Information about Relationships from Wikipedia . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8565-08-2, pages 625-632. DOI: 10.5220/0003936506250632

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist12,
author={Brigitte Mathiak and Victor Manuel Martínez Peña and Andias Wira-Alam},
title={WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP ABOUT? - Extracting Information about Relationships from Wikipedia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2012},
pages={625-632},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003936506250632},
isbn={978-989-8565-08-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP ABOUT? - Extracting Information about Relationships from Wikipedia
SN - 978-989-8565-08-2
AU - Mathiak B.
AU - Manuel Martínez Peña V.
AU - Wira-Alam A.
PY - 2012
SP - 625
EP - 632
DO - 10.5220/0003936506250632