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An architecture to support intelligent user interfaces for Wikis by means of Natural Language Processing

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Johannes Hoffart,

Torsten Zesch, and

Iryna GurevychAuthors Info & Claims

WikiSym '09: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

October 2009

Article No.: 12, Pages 1 - 10

https://doi.org/10.1145/1641309.1641328

Published: 25 October 2009 Publication History

Abstract

We present an architecture for integrating a set of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques with a wiki platform. This entails support for adding, organizing, and finding content in the wiki. We perform a comprehensive analysis of how NLP techniques can support the user interaction with the wiki, using an intelligent interface to provide suggestions. The architecture is designed to be deployed with any existing wiki platform, especially those used in corporate environments. We implemented a prototype integrating the NLP techniques keyphrase extraction and text segmentation, as well as an improved search engine. The prototype is integrated with two widely used wiki platforms: Media-Wiki and TWiki.

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WikiSym '09: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

October 2009

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DOI:10.1145/1641309

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Yao YWan LCao QMao R(2012)PhoneCon: Voice-driven SmartPhone Controllable Wireless Sensor Networks2012 IEEE 31st International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC)10.1109/PCCC.2012.6407654(440-447)Online publication date: Dec-2012
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Kong NHanrahan BWeksteen TConvertino GChi EPu PPazzani MAndré ERiecken D(2011)VisualWikiCuratorProceedings of the 16th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces10.1145/1943403.1943467(367-370)Online publication date: 13-Feb-2011
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