Etytree: A graphical and interactive etymology dictionary based on wiktionary

Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017 - -2017

Authors

Pantaleo Ester, Anelli Vito Walter, Di Noia Tommaso, Serasset Gilles

Abstract

Etymological definitions in the English version of Wiktionary are particularly well compiled and contain a very rich set of information hindering binary, i.e., etymological, relationships between words, e.g., “word A derives from word B, word B derives from word C, etc”. The etytree project (http://tools.wmflabs.org/etytree/) extracts this information into a database of triples or data entities composed of subject-predicate-object (where a possible predicate is “derives from”). The project uses this database to create an intuitive and multilingual graphical etymology dictionary. Potentially, the tool can be integrated into Wikidata when the Wikidata-for-Wiktionary proposal turns into production.

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1145/3041021.3053365

BibTex references

@InProceedings{PADS17,
  author       = "Pantaleo, Ester and Anelli, Vito Walter and Di Noia, Tommaso and Serasset, Gilles",
  title        = "Etytree: A graphical and interactive etymology dictionary based on wiktionary",
  booktitle    = "Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017",
  pages        = "1635--1640",
  year         = "2017",
  url          = "http://sisinflab.poliba.it/Publications/2017/PADS17"

}