[Announcement] Talk: Knowledge beyond the Graph: Toward a Multilingual Wikipedia

  *NSF Convergence Accelerator Tracks A&B Speaker Series*

"Knowledge beyond the Graph: Toward a Multilingual Wikipedia"

by Denny Vrandečić
Wikimedia Foundation

Thursday, Feb 11, 2021. 9:00 a.m. (pacific)

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The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) tracks A and B of the 
Convergence Accelerator program are proud to present the first speaker 
in their 2021/22 speaker series on Open Knowledge Networks. The series 
will feature researchers and practitioners widely recognized for their 
contribution to knowledge graphs, knowledge engineering, and FAIR data.

*Abstract*: Wikipedia’s vision is a world in which everyone can share in 
the sum of all knowledge. In its first two decades, this vision has been 
very unevenly achieved. One of the largest hindrances is the sheer 
number of languages Wikipedia needs to cover in order to achieve that 
goal. We argue that we need a new approach to tackle this problem more 
effectively, a multilingual Wikipedia where content can be shared 
between language editions. We have started a new project where we 
separate this goal in two parts: creating and maintaining content in an 
abstract notation within a project called Abstract Wikipedia, and 
creating a new project called Wikifunctions that can translate this 
notation to natural language. Both parts are fully owned and maintained 
by the community. This architecture will make more encyclopedic content 
available to more people in their own language, and at the same time 
allow more people to contribute knowledge and reach more people with 
their contributions, no matter what their respective language backgrounds.

*Bio*: Denny Vrandečić has joined Wikimedia Foundation as Head of 
Special Projects in order to lead the Abstract Wikipedia project. He 
obtained his Ph.D. from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2012 
where he co-founded Semantic MediaWiki, and thereafter launched Wikidata 
at Wikimedia Deutschland. He then joined Google as an ontologist on the 
Google Knowledge Graph and later worked as a researcher on the topic of 
knowledge representation.

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