Temporal Expressions in Wikipedia Biographical Articles
Name
Jaan Teppo
Abstract
The purpose of this Bachelor’s thesis is to research the usage of temporal expressions in Wikipedia biographical articles and find out the distribution of birth years, distribution of temporal expression types, distribution of years in temporal expressions, granularity of temporal expressions, temporal richness and analyse the compability for comparison of the temporal expressions in Wikipedia biographical articles. This work gives an overview of data mining and processing of Wikipedia biographical articles, temporal expression tagging and statistics creation processes, statistics of temporal expressions in Wikipedia biographical articles is given and a method for comparing articles on the basis of temporal expressions and initial valuation for the method is proposed.
Keywords:
Temporal expression, Wikipedia, biography, data mining
CERCS: P175 Informatics, systems theory
Keywords:
Temporal expression, Wikipedia, biography, data mining
CERCS: P175 Informatics, systems theory
Graduation Thesis language
Estonian
Graduation Thesis type
Bachelor - Computer Science
Supervisor(s)
Siim Orasmaa
Defence year
2017