2008年2月27日水曜日

Wikipedia Thesaurus Visualization now supports Java

We are proud to announce new feature in Wikipedia Thesaurus and its visualization system. It now supports visualization on your browser. Just click "NetVis" button in each concept to show the network view.

http://wikipedia-lab.org:8080/WikipediaThesaurusV2/

It supports both Japanese and English. Have fun.


2008年2月25日月曜日

NLP workshop in Korea

Microsoft Research Asia invited me to join a NLP workshop held in Korea, so I participated last week. This was the first time for me to join a workshop about NLP, so many things impressed me in various aspects. In fact, several problems that I was facing seem to be solved.

In the workshop I felt that, not surprisingly, many NLP researchers already realized the importance of the Social Web (Esp. Wikipedia) as a corpus for knowledge extraction. There are several good meetings with other active researchers in this research area. Some of them started researches on Wikipedia Mining recently. I believe that 2008 will be an exciting year for Wikipedia research more than last year.