Submissions/Wikipedia API, Python and 100+ languages

This is a rejected submission for Wikimania 2012.

Submission no. 678
Title of the submission

Wikipedia API, Python and 100+ languages

Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation)

Tutorial/workshop

Author of the submission

Dmitry Kachaev

E-mail address

dmitry.kachaev@gmail.com

Username

dkachaev

Country of origin

US/Russia

Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)

University of Maryland, Human-Computer Interaction Lab

John Hopkins University, Human Language Technology Center of Excellence

Personal homepage or blog

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~dkachaev/

http://about.me/dmitrykachaev

Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal)

As research assistant at UMD/JHU I work on various projects focused on bilingual and monolingual translation, machine translation, crowd-sourced translation and natural language processing. Wikipedia projects are one of the essential tools providing access to hundreds of languages and hundreds of thousands of articles ready for unlimited access and use in language research.

But manipulating such large amount of data in different languages is not always a simple task.

In this workshop/tutorial I want to cover following topics:

  • Wikipedia API
  • Processing Wikipedia articles using Python
  • Parsing and extracting sentences/words out of Wikipedia articles
  • Working with 100+ languages in unified fashion
  • Tips and tricks

As one of the outcomes of this talk, I want to gather requirements from other people using Wikipedia for language research to build a better tools and libraries that language research community can use.

Track
  • Research, Analysis, and Education
  • Technology and Infrastructure
Length of presentation/talk

25 minutes

Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?

Yes

Slides or further information (optional)

Will prepare slides if talk is selected.

Special request as to time of presentations


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  1. Valid entry (talk) 02:16, 22 March 2012 (UTC) if it doesn't collide with my presentation time[reply]
  2. Yuvipanda (talk) 00:00, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Sumanah (talk) 18:24, 21 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Logicwiki (talk) 07:44, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Bináris (talk) 22:23, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]