wikification

Noun

wikification (usually uncountable, plural wikifications)

1. (usually) The process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform, or converting HTML to wiki markup.
2. (usually, chiefly Wikimedia jargon) The automated process of adding links to Wikipedia (or another wiki) to specific words and phrases in an arbitrary text (e.g. a news article).
   • Given a text or hypertext document, we define “text wikification” as the task of automatically extracting the most important words and phrases in the document (keywords), and identifying for each such keyword the appropriate link to a Wikipedia article with detailed explanatory information about...2007, Andras Csomai, Rada Mihalcea, “Linking Educational Materials to Encyclopedic Knowledge”, in Rosemary Luckin et al., editors, Artificial Intelligence in Education, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 558
   • This task will introduce the process of “wikification”; that is, automatically and judiciously augmenting a plain-text document with pertinent hyperlinks to Wikipedia articles – as though the document were itself a Wikipedia article. […] Wikification is a useful process in itself, […]2009, Ian H. Witten, abstract of the presentation “Semantic Document Processing Using Wikipedia as a Knowledge Base”, in Shlomo Geva et al. (editors), Focused Retrieval and Evaluation (INEX 2009...