Grants:IEG/AutomaticCategorization
Project idea
What is the problem you're trying to solve?
To improve the quality maybe useful suggest categories automatically.
What is your solution?
From a technical point of view, we must improve the interface to edit articles and match the article to another articles with a machine learning algorithm
Project goals
Improve the quality of wikipedia.
Project plan
Activities
I've experimented with NLTK to make automatic clasification of texts. I must implement some ideas about text clasification with php in mediawiki.
Budget
- Travels to universities or free software meetings to exchange points of view: 1200 euros
- Total Budget: 1200 euros
Community engagement
I am a member of the spanish chapter of wikimedia, there are meeting in this sense. I've worked in the university for a good number of years. I know good researchers in machine learning field.
Sustainability
It will be very interesting improve the algorithms, when become part of wikipedia, with the interaction of the users.
Measures of success
- It runs.
- The MediaWiki community has accepted the contribution.
- The Wikipedia community has accepted the contribution.
- Many users is using the feature. I could use a tracking system for it, or see logs.
Get involved
Participants
- davidam: I've worked in UNED for many years deploying the current e-learning system, reaching articles and software for the university. Currently, I maintain software in GNU/Emacs [1], [2] and [3] and Drupal for Drupal.
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