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Wikipedia is a critical resource for modern NLP, serving as a rich repository of up-to-date and citation-backed information on a wide variety of subjects. The reliability of Wikipedia -- its groundedness in its cited sources -- is vital to…

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In this paper, we present a dataset of inter-language knowledge propagation in Wikipedia. Covering the entire 309 language editions and 33M articles, the dataset aims to track the full propagation history of Wikipedia concepts, and allow…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Roldolfo Valentim , Giovanni Comarela , Souneil Park , Diego Saez-Trumper

In this technical report we present a database schema used to store Wikipedia so it can be easily used in query-intensive applications. In addition to storing the information in a way that makes it highly accessible, our schema enables…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Gilad Katz , Bracha Shapira

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

We show how reciprocal arcs significantly influence the structural organization of Wikipedias, online encyclopedias. It is shown that random addition of reciprocal arcs in the static network cannot explain the observed reciprocity of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-05-23 Vinko Zlatić , Hrvoje Štefančić

Recent research has taken advantage of Wikipedia's multilingualism as a resource for cross-language information retrieval and machine translation, as well as proposed techniques for enriching its cross-language structure. The availability…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-11-01 Thanh Nguyen , Viviane Moreira , Huong Nguyen , Hoa Nguyen , Juliana Freire

Category systems are central components of knowledge bases, as they provide a hierarchical grouping of semantically related concepts and entities. They are a unique and valuable resource that is utilized in a broad range of information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog , Jamie Callan

In this paper we provide a comprehensive introduction to knowledge graphs, which have recently garnered significant attention from both industry and academia in scenarios that require exploiting diverse, dynamic, large-scale collections of…

In this paper, we describe an embedding-based entity recommendation framework for Wikipedia that organizes Wikipedia into a collection of graphs layered on top of each other, learns complementary entity representations from their topology…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Chien-Chun Ni , Kin Sum Liu , Nicolas Torzec

This study analyzes the differences between the category structure of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) system (which is one of the widely used library classification systems in Europe) and Wikipedia. In particular, we compare the…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2011-05-31 Almila Akdag Salah , Cheng Gao , Krzysztof Suchecki , Andrea Scharnhorst

Wikipedia, the world largest encyclopedia contains a lot of knowledge that is expressed as formulae exclusively. Unfortunately, this knowledge is currently not fully accessible by intelligent information retrieval systems. This immense body…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2013-04-22 Moritz Schubotz

This is an evolving document. It is devoted to summarizing patterns and laws of knowledge growth. By examining a variety of parameters in data sources such as Wikipedia and Microsoft Academic Graph, we can get deeper insights of how…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Nick Zhang

Exploratory search is an open-ended information retrieval process that aims at discovering knowledge about a topic or domain rather than searching for a specific answer or piece of information. Conversational interfaces are particularly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Phillip Schneider , Nils Rehtanz , Kristiina Jokinen , Florian Matthes

Recognizing similarities among entities is central to both human cognition and computational intelligence. Within this broader landscape, Entity Set Expansion is one prominent task aimed at taking an initial set of (tuples of) entities and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Giovanni Amendola , Pietro Cofone , Marco Manna , Aldo Ricioppo

Hyperlinks are an essential feature of the World Wide Web. They are especially important for online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia: an article can often only be understood in the context of related articles, and hyperlinks make it easy to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Robert West , Ashwin Paranjape , Jure Leskovec

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…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Hauke Fuehres , Peter A. Gloor , Michael Henninger , Reto Kleeb , Keiichi Nemoto

We aim to provide table answers to keyword queries against knowledge bases. For queries referring to multiple entities, like "Washington cities population" and "Mel Gibson movies", it is better to represent each relevant answer as a table…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Mohan Yang , Bolin Ding , Surajit Chaudhuri , Kaushik Chakrabarti

This paper presents a novel analysis and visualization of English Wikipedia data. Our specific interest is the analysis of basic statistics, the identification of the semantic structure and age of the categories in this free online…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Todd Holloway , Miran Bozicevic , Katy Börner

Working with Web archives raises a number of issues caused by their temporal characteristics. Depending on the age of the content, additional knowledge might be needed to find and understand older texts. Especially facts about entities are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Helge Holzmann , Thomas Risse

Verifiability is one of the core editing principles in Wikipedia, where editors are encouraged to provide citations for the added statements. Statements can be any arbitrary piece of text, ranging from a sentence up to a paragraph. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Besnik Fetahu