Galaxysearch - Discovering the Knowledge of Many by Using Wikipedia as a Meta-Searchindex
Abstract
We propose a dynamic map of knowledge generated from Wikipedia pages and the Web URLs contained therein. GalaxySearch provides answers to the questions we don't know how to ask, by constructing a semantic network of the most relevant pages in Wikipedia related to a search term. This search graph is constructed based on the Wikipedia bidirectional link structure, the most recent edits on the pages, the importance of the page, and the article quality; search results are then ranked by the centrality of their network position. GalaxySearch provides the results in three related ways: (1) WikiSearch - identifying the most prominent Wikipedia pages and Weblinks for a chosen topic, (2) WikiMap - creating a visual temporal map of the changes in the semantic network generated by the search results over the lifetime of the returned Wikipedia articles, and (3) WikiPulse - finding the most recent and most relevant changes and updates about a topic.
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@article{arxiv.1204.3375,
title = {Galaxysearch - Discovering the Knowledge of Many by Using Wikipedia as a Meta-Searchindex},
author = {Hauke Fuehres and Peter A. Gloor and Michael Henninger and Reto Kleeb and Keiichi Nemoto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.3375},
year = {2012}
}
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Presented at Collective Intelligence conference, 2012 (arXiv:1204.2991)