Wikiii was a search engine interface for giving focused access to Wikipedia. It was powered by the Lucene based XML element retrieval engine I developed as part of my PhD research. For a given query the search engine gave direct access to the most relevant sections of the relevant Wikipedia articles.

Related projects

• XMLFind: Wikiii was based on the XMLFind prototype for searching academic publications.

Related publications

Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke. Focused Access to Wikipedia. 6th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2006). 2006. [more]

Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Focused Information Access using XML Element Retrieval. SIKS Dissertation Series. 2006. [more]