Re: Automatically linking wiki words

Another consideration is meaning based upon context in which word/phrases
appear, for example tree:bark vs. dog:bark or drug:crack vs. drywall:crack.

As others have noted, this is a sophisticated capability to implement.  For
similar project need, my team ended up with a commercial search product
capable of performing semantic-based 'entity extraction'.

Dan

On 6/29/07, Minute Electron <minuteelectron@...> wrote:
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> On 6/29/07, Dave Sigafoos <davesigafoos@...> wrote:
> >
> > This *could* be done with an extension during the 'Save Page'
> > process.  Probably be work on a 'keyword' list similar to the way
> Firefox
> > spell checker works.  Where you could add words/phrases etc.  Hmmm ..
> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > mediawiki-l-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Jack
Eapen C
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> > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Automatically linking wiki words
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> >
> > Is there a way to automatically link the wiki words in an article? i.e.
> > suppose in an article, there may be words like "open source" or
> "software"
> > for which articles are there in the wiki. Currently we have to manually
> link
> > them like [[open source]] or [[software]]. But most of the cases, the
> author
> > may not be knowing whether that article exists or not, or there may be
> case
> > inconsistencies. Is it possible to automatically link the words or
> phrases
> > that has an entry in the page table as titles?
> >
> > Regards,
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> > Jack
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> This could probably be done as an extension, however the only way I can
> envisage it being done would use a tremendous amount of resources. In many
> wikis the page table is huge, so it would take literally hours.
>
> Although this seams like a good idea on the face of it, you might end up
> with entire paragraphs where every word is a wiki link (this, of course,
> depends on the wiki). This would have to be done as an extension and could
> only work on a small subset of wikis.
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