I refer Wikipedia frequently. I use this BASH function to help me do that from the terminal. For explanation of how this works head over here. BASH function # wiki # eg: wiki India # wiki Apple_Inc # wiki Anglo_Saxon wiki() { dig +short txt $1.wp.dg.cx } Example usage prashanth@prashanth-desktop:~$ wiki India “India, officially the [...]
Categories: linux,web,wikipedia
Tagged: bash, code, function, productivity, terminal, wikipedia
In an earlier article, I mentioned that I was trying to use Wikipedia data to do news article clustering to make it easy for me follow news feeds. I have made some progress. I’ve written an algorithm to produce a list of Wikipedia articles relevant to the input text. Input text has to be in [...]
Categories: programming,wikipedia
Tagged: data mining, graph, graphviz, programming, python, semantic analysis, text processing, visualization, web, wikipedia
I was in the process of trying to understand the classification schemes available in Wikipedia (categories, lists and navigation maps) when I came across this nifty tool. It is very useful to understand the inter-relationships between Wikipedia categories. You can check it out here: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/catgraph/
Categories: wikipedia
Tagged: categories, graph, wikipedia
Wikipedia is a superb resource for reference (taken with a pinch of salt of course). I spend hours at a time spidering through its pages and always come away amazed at how much information it hosts. In my opinion this ranks amongst the defining milestones of mankind’s advancement. Apart from being available through http://www.wikipedia.org, [...]
Categories: programming
Tagged: , data mining, programming, python, text processing, wikipedia