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Knowledge bases are very good sources for knowledge extraction, the ability to create knowledge from structured and unstructured sources and use it to improve automatic processes as query expansion. However, extracting knowledge from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Joan Guisado-Gámez , Arnau Prat-Pérez

Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites globally, yet its role beyond its own platform remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we present the first large-scale analysis of how Wikipedia is referenced across the Web. Using a dataset…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Veniamin Veselovsky , Tiziano Piccardi , Ashton Anderson , Robert West , Akhil Arora

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 introduce a method for transliteration generation that can produce transliterations in every language. Where previous results are only as multilingual as Wikipedia, we show how to use training data from Wikipedia as surrogate training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Stephen Mayhew , Christos Christodoulopoulos , Dan Roth

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

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

With more than 11 times as many pageviews as the next largest edition, English Wikipedia dominates global knowledge access relative to other language editions. Readers are prone to assuming English Wikipedia as a superset of all language…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zining Wang , Yuxuan Zhang , Dongwook Yoon , Nicholas Vincent , Farhan Samir , Vered Shwartz

Information presented in Wikipedia articles must be attributable to reliable published sources in the form of references. This study examines over 5 million Wikipedia articles to assess the reliability of references in multiple language…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Aitolkyn Baigutanova , Diego Saez-Trumper , Miriam Redi , Meeyoung Cha , Pablo Aragón

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

We present a new dataset of Wikipedia articles each paired with a knowledge graph, to facilitate the research in conditional text generation, graph generation and graph representation learning. Existing graph-text paired datasets typically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Luyu Wang , Yujia Li , Ozlem Aslan , Oriol Vinyals

Every day, thousands of users sign up as new Wikipedia contributors. Once joined, these users have to decide which articles to contribute to, which users to seek out and learn from or collaborate with, etc. Any such task is a hard and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Ramtin Yazdanian , Leila Zia , Jonathan Morgan , Bahodir Mansurov , Robert West

The vast amount of online information today poses challenges for non-English speakers, as much of it is concentrated in high-resource languages such as English and French. Wikipedia reflects this imbalance, with content in low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Siddharth Khincha , Tushar Kataria , Ankita Anand , Dan Roth , Vivek Gupta

We test the hypothesis that the extent to which one obtains information on a given topic through Wikipedia depends on the language in which it is consulted. Controlling the size factor, we investigate this hypothesis for a number of 25…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Alexander Mehler , Wahed Hemati , Pascal Welke , Maxim Konca , Tolga Uslu

Wikipedia is the largest web repository of free knowledge. Volunteer editors devote time and effort to creating and expanding articles in more than 300 language editions. As content quality varies from article to article, editors also spend…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Paramita Das , Isaac Johnson , Diego Saez-Trumper , Pablo Aragón

Link prediction task is vital to automatically understanding the structure of large knowledge bases. In this paper, we present our system to solve this task at the Data Science and Advanced Analytics 2023 Competition "Efficient and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Chau-Thang Phan , Quoc-Nam Nguyen , Kiet Van Nguyen

A Wikipedia book (known as Wikibook) is a collection of Wikipedia articles on a particular theme that is organized as a book. We propose Wikibook-Bot, a machine-learning based technique for automatically generating high quality Wikibooks…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Shahar Admati , Lior Rokach , Bracha Shapira

A fundamental ability of an intelligent web-based agent is seeking out and acquiring new information. Internet search engines reliably find the correct vicinity but the top results may be a few links away from the desired target. A…

Web articles such as Wikipedia serve as one of the major sources of knowledge dissemination and online learning. However, their in-depth information--often in a dense text format--may not be suitable for mobile browsing, even in a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Daniel Nkemelu , Peggy Chi , Daniel Castro Chin , Krishna Srinivasan , Irfan Essa

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

An important editing policy in Wikipedia is to provide citations for added statements in Wikipedia pages, where statements can be arbitrary pieces of text, ranging from a sentence to a paragraph. In many cases citations are either outdated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Besnik Fetahu , Katja Markert , Wolfgang Nejdl , Avishek Anand