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Wikipedia provides useful input for efforts on mining taxonomies or ontologies in specific domains. In particular, Wikipedia’s categories serve classification. In this paper, we describe a method and a corresponding tool, WikiTax, for exploring Wikipedia’s category graph with the objective of supporting the development of a classification of software languages. The category graph is extracted level by level. The extracted graph is visualized in a tree-like manner. Category attributes (i.e., metrics) such as depth are visualized. Irrelevant edges and nodes may be excluded. These exclusions are documented while using a manageable and well-defined set of ‘exclusion types’ as comments.
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Lämmel, R., Mosen, D., Varanovich, A. (2013). Method and Tool Support for Classifying Software Languages with Wikipedia . In: Erwig, M., Paige, R.F., Van Wyk, E. (eds) Software Language Engineering. SLE 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8225. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02654-1_14
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