Hi, I am not sure how to move forward, but it was suggested I post on this page. We initially proposed this project on Village pump (idea lab) The proposal generated a good amount of activity with some very positive feedback, but lead to no conclusion or direction.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
(extract from Village pump (idea lab))
Provide a Wikipedia search service that indexes Wikipedia data semantically, based on sentence structure; subject, subject complement, or direct object, etc. versus just key words. Recognize information that is not directly communicated by the author, by relating acronyms, abbreviations, and compound nouns to appropriate subject matter within an article. Results will be ordered and prioritized by the strength of the correlation of search term to the sentences returned. Results will provide full sentences where possible, with deep links to those sentences, making it possible for users to jump directly to those sentences of interest. Such a tool will improve the search experience within Wikipedia and increase the value of the Wikipedia data. Any help or feedback would be greatly appreciated.
See a demo at www.wikisandy.org
Thanks.
Thomas