Meaning of wikification | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform, or converting HTML to wiki markup.
   uncountable, usually
2. The automated process of adding links to Wikipedia (or another wiki) to specific words and phrases in an arbitrary text (e.g. a news article).
   uncountable, usually

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“Given a text or hypertext document, we define “text wikification” as the task of automatically extracting the most important words and phrases in the document (keywords), and identifying for each such keyword the appropriate link to a Wikipedia article with detailed explanatory information about the corresponding keyphrase. ¶ Text wikification is performed in two steps. […]”

“This task will introduce the process of “wikification”; that is, automatically and judiciously augmenting a plain-text document with pertinent hyperlinks to Wikipedia articles – as though the document were itself a Wikipedia article. […] Wikification is a useful process in itself, […]”

“3 Query Wikification The process of automatically recognizing the topics mentioned in an unstructured text and linking them to the appropriate Wikipedia [6] articles is known as wikification. Two Wikification method[s] have been proposed by now.”

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