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wikifications

wikifications is the plural of wikification.

Meaning of 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

Questions about wikifications

What is wikifications the plural of?
Wikifications is the plural of wikification.

Words near wikifications in the dictionary

  1. Wikidatians
  2. wikied
  3. wikifarm
  4. wikifarms
  5. wikification
  6. wikifications
  7. wikified
  8. wikifies
  9. wikify
  10. wikifying
  11. WikiGnome

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