Wikimania - 3rd Day: Multilingual projects

Room: Gilboa
Date: Saturday, August 6th, 2011. 09:00-10:30

00:07 - Interlanguage links in Wikipedia: current problems and future development
Innocenti V. Maresin
In modern Wikipedia, interlanguage links is the second
important metadata structure after categories. With several
millions of articles, this structure faces many challenges. The
current technical implementation is based on links, from one
page in one language to another page in another language.
Entropy reducing approach is to restrict possible configurations
to clusters containing no more than 1 article in any language.
But there are many cases where equivalence-like interwiki
structure is not possible. In such cases another system may be
used, based on current directed link paradigm but with some
semantic extensions.
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Interlanguage_links_in_Wi...

14:00 - CoSyne: Multilingual Content Synchronization with Wikis
A Bronner
CoSyne is a 3-years European R&D project carried out by a
consortium of four research institutions and three end-user
partners. The project addresses the challenge of multilingual
content synchronization in wiki environments by developing and
integrating technologies for wiki structural analysis, cross-lingual
content entailment and self-learning statistical machine translation.
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/CoSyne:_Multilingual_Cont...

39:00 - Discussion and Improvement Proposals for the Current Interwiki Linking System on Wikipedia
Arkaitz Zubiaga
Wikipedias in more than 280 languages are connected by means
of external links so-called interwiki or inter-language links. Interwiki
links of each page of a Wikipedia connect to pages about the
same topic on other Wikipedias. The current interwiki linking
system replicates the links to the other languages on each and
every Wikipedia, so that it is necessary to run lots of interwiki bots
to keep them updated. As an approach to solving this, my take is
that keeping interwiki links out of the pages as metadata.
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Discussion_and_Improvemen...

54:00 - Interscript Transliteration A Case for Konkani Language
Hari Prasad Nadig , Gurudath Bantwalkar
A presentation on how transliteration between scripts could
help bridge the divide between communities speaking the
same language, but using different scripts. For such language
communities where sharing of knowledge between them was
never feasible, Wikipedia and MediaWiki together present a
unique opportunity to change all this.
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Interscript_Transliterati...

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