wikification

noun

a) The process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform.

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.

b) The process of adding wiki links to specific named entities (usu. capitalized) and other appropriate phrases in an arbitrary text (usu. news articles in current research). The automated process consists of automatic keyword extraction, word sense disambiguation, and automatically adding links to documents (or other unstructured text) to the Wikipedia or other reference.

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,

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