Wikification

Quick meaning: Wikification is a noun meaning The process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform, or converting HTML to wiki markup.

Meaning

The process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform, or converting HTML to wiki markup.

More Meanings

1. (chiefly Wikimedia jargon) The automated process of adding links to Wikipedia (or another wiki) to specific words and phrases in an arbitrary text (e.g. a news article).

Example Sentences

3 Query Wikification The process of automatically recognizing the topics mentioned in an unstructured text and linking them to the appropriate Wikipedia [6] articles is known as wikification. Two Wikification method[s] have been proposed by now.

This task will introduce the process of “wikification”; that is, automatically and judiciously augmenting a plain-text document with pertinent hyperlinks to Wikipedia articles – as though the document were itself a Wikipedia article. […] Wikification is a useful process in itself, […]

Given a text or hypertext document, we define “text wikification” as the task of automatically extracting the most important words and phrases in the document (keywords), and identifying for each such keyword the appropriate link to a Wikipedia article with detailed explanatory information about the corresponding keyphrase. ¶ Text wikification is performed in two steps. […]

Word Forms

• wikifications

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transwikiing, blogification, whiggification, fictionization, healthification, meme-ification.

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