Encyclopedic Palace

Summarizing with Encyclopedic Knowledge

This paper presents a topic-driven multidocument summarization approach that relies on linking documents to Wikipedia. Wikipedia provides structural support to retrieve relevant concepts from the documents to be summarized, and quantify the strength of the relations between them, thus expanding the topic. We identify concepts in the documents, and assign them scores that describe their relevanc...

Encyclopedic Reference of Cancer

The Palace Project

This paper seeks definitions aiding design methodologies for evolving virtual morphologies, by the examination of one such morphology in analogue architecture: The Topkapı Palace. 1 Background The interest that instigated this study lies in a project developed earlier this year, entitled “The Bridge Project” [01], a virtual 3D structure of free associative content derived from the internet, one...

Towards Creating Pedagogic Views from Encyclopedic Resources

This paper identifies computational challenges in restructuring encyclopedic resources (like Wikipedia or thesauri) to reorder concepts with the goal of helping learners navigate through a concept network without getting trapped in circular dependencies between concepts. We present approaches that can help content authors identify regions in the concept network, that after editing, would have m...

Acquiring Knowledge From Encyclopedic Texts

A computat ional model for the acquisition of knowledge from encyclopedic texts is described. The model has been implemented in a program, called SNOWY, that reads unedited texts from The World Book Encyclopedia, and acquires new concepts and conceptual relations about topics dealing with the dietary habits of animals, their classifications and habitats. The program is also able to answer an am...