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Wikipedia is edited by volunteer editors around the world. Considering the large amount of existing content (e.g. over 5M articles in English Wikipedia), deciding what to edit next can be difficult, both for experienced users that usually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Oleksii Moskalenko , Denis Parra , Diego Saez-Trumper

We report on the Wikidata vandalism detection task at the WSDM Cup 2017. The task received five submissions for which this paper describes their evaluation and a comparison to state of the art baselines. Unlike previous work, we recast…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Stefan Heindorf , Martin Potthast , Gregor Engels , Benno Stein

Although not all bots are malicious, the vast majority of them are responsible for spreading misinformation and manipulating the public opinion about several issues, i.e., elections and many more. Therefore, the early detection of bots is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Loukas Ilias , Ioannis Michail Kazelidis , Dimitris Askounis

Malicious sockpuppet detection on Wikipedia is critical to preserving access to reliable information on the internet and preventing the spread of disinformation. Prior machine learning approaches rely on stylistic and meta-data features,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Luc Raszewski , Christine De Kock

Botnets are increasingly used by malicious actors, creating increasing threat to a large number of internet users. To address this growing danger, we propose to study methods to detect botnets, especially those that are hard to capture with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Jeeyung Kim , Alex Sim , Jinoh Kim , Kesheng Wu

OpenStreetMap (OSM), a collaborative, crowdsourced Web map, is a unique source of openly available worldwide map data, increasingly adopted in Web applications. Vandalism detection is a critical task to support trust and maintain OSM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Nicolas Tempelmeier , Elena Demidova

Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopedia, used by algorithms and web users as a central hub of reliable information on the web. The quality and reliability of Wikipedia content is maintained by a community of volunteer editors. Machine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-02 KayYen Wong , Miriam Redi , Diego Saez-Trumper

A precise vulnerability discovery model (VDM) will provide a useful insight to assess software security, and could be a good prediction instrument for both software vendors and users to understand security trends and plan ahead patching…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Viet Hung Nguyen , Fabio Massacci

In this paper, we focus on normative systems for online communities. The paper addresses the issue that arises when different community members interpret these norms in different ways, possibly leading to unexpected behavior in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Thiago Freitas dos Santos , Nardine Osman , Marco Schorlemmer

In recent years, there has been a huge increase in the number of bots online, varying from Web crawlers for search engines, to chatbots for online customer service, spambots on social media, and content-editing bots in online collaboration…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Milena Tsvetkova , Ruth García-Gavilanes , Luciano Floridi , Taha Yasseri

Identifying the vulnerabilities exploited during cyberattacks is essential for enabling timely responses and effective mitigation in software security. This paper directly examines the process of predicting software vulnerabilities,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Refat Othman , Diaeddin Rimawi , Bruno Rossi , Barbara Russo

We introduce a next-generation vandalism detection system for Wikidata, one of the largest open-source structured knowledge bases on the Web. Wikidata is highly complex: its items incorporate an ever-expanding universe of factual triples…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Mykola Trokhymovych , Lydia Pintscher , Ricardo Baeza-Yates , Diego Saez-Trumper

A bag-of-words based probabilistic classifier is trained using regularized logistic regression to detect vandalism in the English Wikipedia. Isotonic regression is used to calibrate the class membership probabilities. Learning curve,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-01-06 Amit Belani

Wikipedia, a vast and continuously consulted knowledge base, faces significant challenges in maintaining up-to-date content due to its reliance on manual human editors. Inspired by the vision of continuous knowledge acquisition in NELL and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Revanth Gangi Reddy , Tanay Dixit , Jiaxin Qin , Cheng Qian , Daniel Lee , Jiawei Han , Kevin Small , Xing Fan , Ruhi Sarikaya , Heng Ji

Large-scale multi-modal pre-training models such as CLIP and PaLI exhibit strong generalization on various visual domains and tasks. However, existing image classification benchmarks often evaluate recognition on a specific domain (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Hexiang Hu , Yi Luan , Yang Chen , Urvashi Khandelwal , Mandar Joshi , Kenton Lee , Kristina Toutanova , Ming-Wei Chang

Wikipedia has been turned into an immensely popular crowd-sourced encyclopedia for information dissemination on numerous versatile topics in the form of subscription free content. It allows anyone to contribute so that the articles remain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Paramita Das , Bhanu Prakash Reddy Guda , Sasi Bhusan Seelaboyina , Soumya Sarkar , Animesh Mukherjee

The WSDM Cup 2017 is a binary classification task for classifying Wikidata revisions into vandalism and non-vandalism. This paper describes our method using some machine learning techniques such as under-sampling, feature selection,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Tomoya Yamazaki , Mei Sasaki , Naoya Murakami , Takuya Makabe , Hiroki Iwasawa

A modern vehicle fitted with sensors, actuators, and Electronic Control Units (ECUs) can be divided into several operational subsystems called Functional Working Groups (FWGs). Examples of these FWGs include the engine system, transmission,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Subash Neupane , Ivan A. Fernandez , Wilson Patterson , Sudip Mittal , Shahram Rahimi

Pedestrian detection in a crowd is a challenging task due to a high number of mutually-occluding human instances, which brings ambiguity and optimization difficulties to the current IoU-based ground truth assignment procedure in classical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yuang Zhang , Huanyu He , Jianguo Li , Yuxi Li , John See , Weiyao Lin

Detecting hate speech in memes is challenging due to their multimodal nature and subtle, culturally grounded cues such as sarcasm and context. While recent vision-language models (VLMs) enable joint reasoning over text and images,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ivo Bueno , Lea Hirlimann , Enkelejda Kasneci