[Corpora-List] JWPL - A Java-based Wikipedia API released

[Torsten Zesch]

               JWPL - Java Wikipedia Library

             version 0.3 beta is now available

        http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/JWPL


INTRODUCTION

Lately, Wikipedia has been recognized as a promising lexical 
semantic resource. We present JWPL, a free Java-based Wikipedia
application programming interface, that enables the use of
Wikipedia as a NLP resource by providing efficient programmatic
access to the knowledge therein.


FUNCTIONALITY

Fast access to:
 * article text
 * categories
 * redirects
 * links between articles (ingoing and outgoing).

Discrimination between
 * article pages
 * disambiguation pages
 * redirect pages.

Available languages:
 * English
 * German
 * Czech
 * Ukrainian

Other languages will be added step by step.


DOWNLOAD

JWPL Java library
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/JWPL

Wikipedia data
ftp://ftp.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/tud/informatik/JWPL_data


LICENCE

JWPL is free for non-profit and non-commercial use.


ABOUT

JWPL was developed by the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab
at Darmstadt University of Technlogy.

http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de