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[tools-yak@collab] Re: auto-linking Wiki based on an ontology

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From: "Peter P. Jones" <ppj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 09:42:13 +0100
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Hi,    (01)

This seems to be a recurring topic - though not less interesting for 
that.    (02)

Murray, I don't know if it would help you but sometime back with 
similar ideas in mind I built a humble perl script that indexed 
purple-numbered web pages, using a simple but effective technique 
(that if I recall correctly was suggested by blinc or Dorai) of 
grabbing all the significant words between stopwords, and then spat 
out an unmerged Topic Map. It probably wouldn't take much to convert 
it to perform the <meta> insertions as it goes. If you'd like the 
code I can dig it out. Combined with an NLP parser for word/phrase 
class indication, it might do interesting things. (In that other 
life, where we have time to do stuff...)     (03)

I have this thought on my mind concerning WikiWords: Can Cyc read 
Wikipedia.org? Answer: yes, probably, because Wikipedia is only using 
the WikiWords for the content of the link, not the display text.    (04)

(Your sig made me laugh, btw. Thanks. :)    (05)

Best,
-- 
Peter    (06)


On 7 Aug 2004 at 23:03, Murray Altheim wrote:    (07)

> Eugene Eric Kim wrote:
> > I had coffee with Dorai today, and was inspired to write down an
> > idea that I've been toying with for a while.  It's for a Wiki that
> > autolinks pages based on an ontology rather than on WikiWords or
> > FreeLinks.  My notes are at:
> > 
> >   http://www.eekim.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MarkupFreeAutoLinkingWiki
> 
> Eugene,
> 
> I've also been thinking about this kind of thing. My approach was to
> consider that one of the problems with wikis is that any given page is
> not really about *one* subject (i.e., the title) but about potentially
> many different subjects. It occurs to me to use the existing Dublin
> Core DC.subject approach to embed <meta> keyword content within the
> wiki pages, then have a harvester build up the wiki index from that,
> not simply from the page titles. This would work pretty well and be
> easily brought into a Topic Map navigator. My only problem in
> implementing such a beast is that I'm already busy with an entirely
> different project. The two projects could meet in the middle, but I
> don't have the time to begin hacking a wiki tool right now...
> 
> Murray
> 
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