This paper presents a method for constructing a large-scale Person Ontology with category hierarchy from Wikipedia. We first extract Wikipedia category labels which represent person (hereafter, Wikipedia Person Category, WPC) by using a machine learning classifier. We then construct a WPC hierarchy by detecting is-a relations in the Wikipedia category network. We then extract the titles of Wiki...

For many languages, the size of Wikipedia is an order of magnitude smaller than the English Wikipedia. We present a method for cross-lingual alignment of template and infobox attributes in Wikipedia. The alignment is used to add and complete templates and infoboxes in one language with information derived from Wikipedia in another language. We show that alignment between English and Dutch Wikip...

Wikipedia (the “free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit”) is having a huge impact on how a great many people gather information about the world. So, it is important for epistemologists and information scientists to ask whether or not people are likely to acquire knowledge as a result of having access to this information source. In other words, is Wikipedia having good epistemic consequenc...