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Architecture for a multilingual Wikipedia — mentioned by tgv

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 09:57:25 GMT

The original paper [0] envisages a much wider scope. Vrandecic literally quotes "a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge". It also makes the task of the editor much, much more difficult than it is now. [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.04733.pdf

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Architecture for a multilingual Wikipedia — mentioned by YeGoblynQueenne

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 23:15:08 GMT

This is addressed in the white paper describing the project's architecture: 10.2 Machine translation Another widely used approach —mostly for readers, much less for contributors— is the use of automatic translation services like Google Translate. A reader finds an article they are interested in and then asks the service to translate itinto a language they understand. Google Translate currently supports about a hundred languages — about a third of thelanguages Wikipedia supports. Also the quality of these translations can vary widely — and almost never achieves thequality a reader expects from…

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Architecture for a multilingual Wikipedia — mentioned by JadeNB

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 20:53:24 GMT

Reminder to link to abstracts, rather than directly to PDF: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04733 .

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Architecture for a multilingual Wikipedia — mentioned by YeGoblynQueenne

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 18:28:02 GMT

>> Also I wonder how helpful Prolog infrastructure could be since they provided some useful frameworks [3][4] for that. That's a good point, because looking at the working paper on the proposed architecture of the project [1], the example of a "constructor" in Figure 1 is basically a set of frames and it has a straightforward translation in Prolog and the example of a "renderer" in English is basically a pattern with holes that also has a very straightforward Prolog implementation via Definite Clause Grammars. In fact the whole architecture reminds me a lot of IBM's Watson - the good bits…

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Architecture for a multilingual Wikipedia — mentioned by Ninjaneered

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 18:11:48 GMT

For reference, this is from the same developer [1] that created Semantic MediaWiki [2] and lead the development of Wikidata [3]. Here's a link to the white paper [4] describing Abstract Wikipedia (and Wikilambda). Considering the success of Wikidata, I'm hopeful this effort succeeds, but it is pretty ambitious. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Denny [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata [4] https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04733

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