How to turn Wikipedia into a Quiz Game
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The document discusses a method for turning Wikipedia and Wikidata into a quiz game by utilizing Google Natural Language Processing (NLP) to generate questions from Wikipedia entries. It outlines techniques for querying structured data from Wikidata, extracting essential information, and leveraging Amazon Alexa for an interactive quiz experience. Future work includes exploring more complex question generation patterns and improving distractor quality.
How to turn Wikipedia into a Quiz Game
- 1. How to turn Wikipedia into a Quiz Game 7th April 2017 Roberto Turrin Andrea Cappelli PyCon O:o - Florence, Italy
- 2. About Us Roberto Turrin Andrea Cappelli Head of Technology, PhD Data ScienGst, PhD @robytur @Skep86 Amazon Echo
- 3. Agenda Wikipedia and wikidata as knowledge sources NLP with Google Natural Language Using enCCes and dependencies to generate quesCons IoT integraCon with Alexa
- 4. Wikipedia and Wikidata as knowledge sources
- 5. Wikipedia and Wikidata Wikidata stores structured informaCon about several Wikipedia enCCes. Wikidata is a document-oriented database. Wikidata can be queried InformaCon is represented by statements, i.e., key-value pairs. PetScan SPARQL AutoList
- 6. Querying Wikidata with SPARQL resource resource resource/literal subject predicate object <urn:x-states:New%20York> <h.p://purl.org/dc/terms/alterna6ve> "NY" “New York has the postal abbrevia6on NY”
- 7. Downloading knowledge Querying Wikidata to retrieve Wikipedia links of interest SPARQL Downloading Wikipedia pages as XML REST h+p call Parsing Wikipedia dump WikiExtractor Reference knowledge
- 8. NLP with Google Natural Language
- 9. Natural Language Processing Syntax analysis SemanCcs analysis EnCty recogniCon SenCment analysis Main NLP tasks:
- 10. Google Natural Language - overview Homer Simpson stole Ned’s air conditioner. https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/
- 11. Using enCCes and dependencies to generate quesCons
- 12. From statement to quesGon Homer Simpson stole Ned ‘s air conditioner . nsubj dobj steal • Rephrase the sentence as a question Homer Simpson stole Ned’s air conditioner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Simpson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Flanders • Identify a relevant phrase and remove it __________ stole Ned’s air conditioner. Q: What did Homer Simpson steal? A: Ned’s air conditioner.
- 13. What about wrong answers? appears in The Simpsons (Q886) Good “wrong answers” (distractors) for quizzes … appears in appears in appears in appears in Q646166 Q727156 Q324430 Homer Simpson stole Ned’s air conditioner. Q7810
- 15. IoT integraCon with Alexa
- 16. What is Amazon Alexa (Echo Dot)? Based on Amazon Alexa Voice service Enabling HCI via voice Quick build with AWS Lambda or poinCng to web API Intent-based with slot-filling Retains memory within each session “Has Skills”
- 17. Deploying Alexa Skills Create new skill (name and invocaCon) Define intents, slots and uberances Link to Lambda or web API Test
- 18. Conclusions
- 19. Overview Download knowledge from Wikipedia and Wikidata Extract enCCes and dependencies with NLP Generate quesCons from NLP outcome and Wikidata enCCes Configure Alexa to serve quesCons
- 20. Future work Other paberns to generate quesCons Custom enCty extracCon IteraCve correcCon of bad quesCons More complex distractors
- 21. Thank you Q & A 7th April 2017