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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

Apples, porcupines, and the most obscure Bob Dylan song---is every topic a few clicks from Philosophy? Within Wikipedia, the surprising answer is yes: nearly all paths lead to Philosophy. Wikipedia is the largest, most meticulously indexed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Mark Ibrahim , Christopher M. Danforth , Peter Sheridan Dodds

Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is one of the most visited sites on the Web and a common source of information for many users. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is not a source of original information, but was…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Tiziano Piccardi , Miriam Redi , Giovanni Colavizza , Robert West

Nowadays, thanks to Web 2.0 technologies, people have the possibility to generate and spread contents on different social media in a very easy way. In this context, the evaluation of the quality of the information that is available online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Elias Bassani , Marco Viviani

Knowledge is useless without structure. While the classification of knowledge has been an enduring philosophical enterprise, it recently found applications in computer science, notably for artificial intelligence. The availability of large…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-06 Maxime Gabella

This study presents a comparative analysis of 55 Wikipedia language editions employing a citation index alongside a synthetic quality measure. Specifically, we identified the most significant Wikipedia articles within distinct topical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Włodzimierz Lewoniewski , Krzysztof Węcel , Witold Abramowicz

Wikidata is steadily becoming more central to Wikipedia, not just in maintaining interlanguage links, but in automated population of content within the articles themselves. It is not well understood, however, how widespread this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Isaac Johnson

References are an essential part of Wikipedia. Each statement in Wikipedia should be referenced. In this paper, we explore the creation and collection of references for new Wikipedia articles from an editors' perspective. We map out the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Lucie-Aimée Kaffee , Hady Elsahar

Wikipedia has high-quality articles on a variety of topics and has been used in diverse research areas. In this study, a method is presented for using Wikipedia's editor information to build recommender systems in various domains that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Katsuhiko Hayashi

In this paper we present statistical analysis of English texts from Wikipedia. We try to address the issue of language complexity empirically by comparing the simple English Wikipedia (Simple) to comparable samples of the main English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Taha Yasseri , András Kornai , János Kertész

Links are a fundamental part of information networks, turning isolated pieces of knowledge into a network of information that is much richer than the sum of its parts. However, adding a new link to the network is not trivial: it requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Tomás Feith , Akhil Arora , Martin Gerlach , Debjit Paul , Robert West

We study the task of generating from Wikipedia articles question-answer pairs that cover content beyond a single sentence. We propose a neural network approach that incorporates coreference knowledge via a novel gating mechanism. Compared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Xinya Du , Claire Cardie

In this paper we introduce the concept of dynamic link pages. A web site/page contains a number of links to other pages. All the links are not equally important. Few links are more frequently visited and few rarely visited. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-03-29 C Ravindranath Chowdary

Knowledge discovery and collection are intelligence-intensive tasks that traditionally require significant human effort to ensure high-quality outputs. Recent research has explored multi-agent frameworks for automating Wikipedia-style…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Zhongyu Yang , Jun Chen , Dannong Xu , Junjie Fei , Xiaoqian Shen , Liangbing Zhao , Chun-Mei Feng , Mohamed Elhoseiny

As one of the Web's primary multilingual knowledge sources, Wikipedia is read by millions of people across the globe every day. Despite this global readership, little is known about why users read Wikipedia's various language editions. To…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Florian Lemmerich , Diego Sáez-Trumper , Robert West , Leila Zia

INTRODUCTION: Wikipedia is a major source of information, particularly for medical and health content, citing over 4 million scholarly publications. However, the representation of research-based knowledge across different languages on…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Michael Taylor , Roisi Proven , Carlos Areia

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

Multiple critical scenarios (like Wikipedia text generation given English Infoboxes) need automated generation of descriptive text in low resource (LR) languages from English fact triples. Previous work has focused on English fact-to-text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Tushar Abhishek , Shivprasad Sagare , Bhavyajeet Singh , Anubhav Sharma , Manish Gupta , Vasudeva Varma

Wikipedia, rich in entities and events, is an invaluable resource for various knowledge harvesting, extraction and mining tasks. Numerous resources like DBpedia, YAGO and other knowledge bases are based on extracting entity and event based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Besnik Fetahu , Abhijit Anand , Avishek Anand

In this work, we propose an automatic evaluation and comparison of the browsing behavior of Wikipedia readers that can be applied to any language editions of Wikipedia. As an example, we focus on English, French, and Russian languages…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Volodymyr Miz , Joëlle Hanna , Nicolas Aspert , Benjamin Ricaud , Pierre Vandergheynst