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Encyclopedic knowledge platforms are key gateways through which users explore information online. The recent release of Grokipedia, a fully AI-generated encyclopedia, introduces a new alternative to traditional, well-established platforms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Erica Coppolillo , Simone Mungari

Nowadays, editors tend to separate different subtopics of a long Wiki-pedia article into multiple sub-articles. This separation seeks to improve human readability. However, it also has a deleterious effect on many Wikipedia-based tasks that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Muhao Chen , Changping Meng , Gang Huang , Carlo Zaniolo

Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopedia: its open contribution policy allows everyone to edit and share their knowledge. A challenge of radical openness is that it facilitates introducing biased contents or perspectives in Wikipedia.…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Puyu Yang , Giovanni Colavizza

Wikidata is the largest collaborative general knowledge graph supported by a worldwide community. It includes many helpful topics for knowledge exploration and data science applications. However, due to the enormous size of Wikidata, it is…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Phuc Nguyen , Hideaki Takeda

The World Wide Web (WWW) allows the people to share the information (data) from the large database repositories globally. The amount of information grows billions of databases. We need to search the information will specialize tools known…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-02-07 G. Madhu , Dr. A. Govardhan , Dr. T. V. Rajinikanth

Wikipedia is a community-created online encyclopedia; arguably, it is the most popular and largest knowledge resource on the Internet. Thus, reliability and neutrality are of high importance for Wikipedia. Previous research [3] reveals…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-02-06 Olga Zagovora

In this paper we present a novel method for retrieving information in languages other than that of the query. We use this technique in combination with existing traditional Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) techniques to improve…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-06-17 Mikhail Basilyan

This paper aims to review the fiercely discussed question of whether the ranking of Wikipedia articles in search engines is justified by the quality of the articles. After an overview of current research on information quality in Wikipedia,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-09-06 Dirk Lewandowski , Ulrike Spree

The different Wikipedia language editions vary dramatically in how comprehensive they are. As a result, most language editions contain only a small fraction of the sum of information that exists across all Wikipedias. In this paper, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Ellery Wulczyn , Robert West , Leila Zia , Jure Leskovec

Wikipedia is widely used for finding general information about a wide variety of topics. Its vocation is not to provide local information. For example, it provides plot, cast, and production information about a given movie, but not showing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Gregory Grefenstette , Karima Rafes

Wikipedia is the largest existing knowledge repository that is growing on a genuine crowdsourcing support. While the English Wikipedia is the most extensive and the most researched one with over five million articles, comparatively little…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Kristina Ban , Matjaz Perc , Zoran Levnajic

Wikipedia serves as a globally accessible knowledge source with content in over 300 languages. Despite covering the same topics, the different versions of Wikipedia are written and updated independently. This leads to factual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Silvia Cappa , Lingxiao Kong , Pille-Riin Peet , Fanfu Wei , Yuchen Zhou , Jan-Christoph Kalo

Search engines like Google, Yahoo or Bing are an excellent support for finding documents, but this strength also imposes a limitation. As they are optimized for document retrieval tasks, they perform less well when it comes to more complex…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-06-27 Kristiina Singer , Georg Singer , Krista Lepik , Ulrich Norbisrath , Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt

An edit summary is a succinct comment written by a Wikipedia editor explaining the nature of, and reasons for, an edit to a Wikipedia page. Edit summaries are crucial for maintaining the encyclopedia: they are the first thing seen by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Marija Šakota , Isaac Johnson , Guosheng Feng , Robert West

Hyperlinks and other relations in Wikipedia are a extraordinary resource which is still not fully understood. In this paper we study the different types of links in Wikipedia, and contrast the use of the full graph with respect to just…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-16 Eneko Agirre , Ander Barrena , Aitor Soroa

Wikipedia is the largest source of free encyclopedic knowledge and one of the most visited sites on the Web. To increase reader understanding of the article, Wikipedia editors add images within the text of the article's body. However,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Daniele Rama , Tiziano Piccardi , Miriam Redi , Rossano Schifanella

One of the most impressive human endeavors of the past two decades is the collection and categorization of human knowledge in the free and accessible format that is Wikipedia. In this work we ask what makes a term worthy of entering this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Yonatan Bilu , Shai Gretz , Edo Cohen , Noam Slonim

As one of the richest sources of encyclopedic information on the Web, Wikipedia generates an enormous amount of traffic. In this paper, we study large-scale article access data of the English Wikipedia in order to compare articles with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Dimitar Dimitrov , Florian Lemmerich , Fabian Flöck , Markus Strohmaier

In this paper, we introduce the Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets. Google Spreadsheets is part of a free, Web-based software office suite offered by Google within its Google Docs service. It allows users to create and edit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Thomas Steiner

Wikipedia is a useful knowledge source that benefits many applications in language processing and knowledge representation. An important feature of Wikipedia is that of categories. Wikipedia pages are assigned different categories according…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Yanqing Chen , Steven Skiena