NNexus: Towards an Automatic Linker for a Massively-Distributed Collaborative Corpus

James Gardner; Aaron Krowne; Li Xiong

2nd International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

Research Article

NNexus: Towards an Automatic Linker for a Massively-Distributed Collaborative Corpus

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    author={James Gardner and Aaron Krowne and Li Xiong},
    title={NNexus: Towards an Automatic Linker for a Massively-Distributed Collaborative Corpus},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
    year={2007},
    month={5},
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    doi={10.1109/COLCOM.2006.361847}
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James Gardner
Aaron Krowne
Li Xiong
Year: 2007
NNexus: Towards an Automatic Linker for a Massively-Distributed Collaborative Corpus
COLLABORATECOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/COLCOM.2006.361847

James Gardner¹^,*, Aaron Krowne^2,3^,*, Li Xiong¹^,*

1: Department of Math&CS, Emory University
2: Woodruff Library, Emory University
3: PlanetMath.org

*Contact email: jgardn3@emory.edu, akrowne@emory.edu, lxiong@mathcs.emory.edu

Abstract

Collaborative online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and PlanetMath are becoming increasingly popular. In order to understand an article in a corpus a user must understand the related and underlying concepts through linked articles. In this paper, we introduce NNexus, a generalization of the automatic linking component of PlanetMath.org and the first system that automates the process of linking encyclopedia entries into a semantic network of concepts. We discuss the challenges, present the conceptual models as well as specific mechanisms of NNexus system, and discuss some of our ongoing and completed works.

Published: 2007-05-21
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COLCOM.2006.361847