Linking online dictionaries to Wikipedia

Abstract

In a dictionary, a word can have different senses, and each sense is described by a gloss. However, a gloss is short and may not be satisfactorily informative to users. Meanwhile, mostly each word sense has a corresponding article in Wikipedia that contains rich information about the concept expressed by the word sense. In this work, we propose two different methods to link online dictionary word senses to the appropriate Wikipedia articles, namely, text similarity and machine learning. Experimental results on Wiktionary and Oxford English Dictionary are also presented.