Editing Knowledge Resources: The Wiki Way

The creation, customization, and maintenance of knowledgeresources are essential for fostering the full deployment ofLanguage Technologies. The de nition and re nement ofknowledge resources are time- and resource-consuming activities.In this paper we explore how the Wiki paradigmfor online collaborative content editing can be exploited togather massive social contributions from common Web usersin editing knowledge resources. We discuss the WikyotoKnowledge Editor, also calledWikyoto. Wikyoto is a collaborativeWeb environment that enables users with no knowledgeengineering background to edit the multilingual networkof knowledge resources exploited by KYOTO, a crosslingualtext mining system developed in the context of theKYOTO European Project.