Publication
Mining Wikipedia for Discovering Multilingual Definitions on the Web
Alejandro Figueroa
In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid. International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG-2008), 4th, December 3-5, Beijing, Pekin, China, Pages 125-132, IEEE, 12/2008.
Abstract
Ml-DfWebQA is a multilingual definition question answering system (QAS) that extracts answers to definition queries from the short descriptions of web-sites
returned by search engines, called web snippets.
These answers are discriminated on the ground of lexico-syntactic regularities mined from multilingual resources supplied by Wikipedia.
Results support that these regularities serve to significantly strengthen the answering process. In addition, Ml-DfWebQA increases the robustness of multilingual definition QASs by
making use of aliases found in Wikipedia.