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Wikipedia categories, a classification scheme built for organizing and describing Wikpedia articles, are being applied in computer science research. This paper adopts a systematic literature review approach, in order to identify different…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Jesús Tramullas , Piedad Garrido-Picazo , Ana I. Sánchez-Casabón

The frequency of a web search keyword generally reflects the degree of public interest in a particular subject matter. Search logs are therefore useful resources for trend analysis. However, access to search logs is typically restricted to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Mitsuo Yoshida , Yuki Arase , Takaaki Tsunoda , Mikio Yamamoto

Wikipedia's vision is a world in which everyone can share in the sum of all knowledge. In its first two decades, this vision has been very unevenly achieved. One of the largest hindrances is the sheer number of languages Wikipedia needs to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Denny Vrandečić

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

Wikipedia is among the largest examples of collective intelligence on the Web with over 61 million articles covering over 320 languages. Although edited and maintained by an active workforce of human volunteers, Wikipedia is highly reliant…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Neal Reeves , Elena Simperl

Wikipedia is a well-known platform for disseminating knowledge, and scientific sources, such as journal articles, play a critical role in supporting its mission. The open access movement aims to make scientific knowledge openly available,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Puyu Yang , Ahad Shoaib , Robert West , Giovanni Colavizza

Wikidata has grown to a knowledge graph with an impressive size. To date, it contains more than 17 billion triples collecting information about people, places, films, stars, publications, proteins, and many more. On the other side, most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Kunpeng Guo , Dennis Diefenbach , Antoine Gourru , Christophe Gravier

Online encyclopedia such as Wikipedia has become one of the best sources of knowledge. Much effort has been devoted to expanding and enriching the structured data by automatic information extraction from unstructured text in Wikipedia.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Kezun Zhang , Yanghua Xiao , Hanghang Tong , Haixun Wang , Wei Wang

Sections are the building blocks of Wikipedia articles. They enhance readability and can be used as a structured entry point for creating and expanding articles. Structuring a new or already existing Wikipedia article with sections is a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Tiziano Piccardi , Michele Catasta , Leila Zia , Robert West

Most people do not interact with Semantic Web data directly. Unless they have the expertise to understand the underlying technology, they need textual or visual interfaces to help them make sense of it. We explore the problem of generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Pavlos Vougiouklis , Hady Elsahar , Lucie-Aimée Kaffee , Christoph Gravier , Frederique Laforest , Jonathon Hare , Elena Simperl

Split and rephrase is the task of breaking down a sentence into shorter ones that together convey the same meaning. We extract a rich new dataset for this task by mining Wikipedia's edit history: WikiSplit contains one million naturally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Jan A. Botha , Manaal Faruqui , John Alex , Jason Baldridge , Dipanjan Das

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

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

Many open-domain questions are under-specified and thus have multiple possible answers, each of which is correct under a different interpretation of the question. Answering such ambiguous questions is challenging, as it requires retrieving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Haitian Sun , William W. Cohen , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Wikipedia articles (content pages) are commonly used corpora in Natural Language Processing (NLP) research, especially in low-resource languages other than English. Yet, a few research studies have studied the three Arabic Wikipedia…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Saied Alshahrani , Hesham Haroon , Ali Elfilali , Mariama Njie , Jeanna Matthews

Very important breakthroughs in data centric deep learning algorithms led to impressive performance in transactional point applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) such as Face Recognition, or EKG classification. With all due…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Moshe BenBassat

Despite recent progress in computer vision, fine-grained interpretation of satellite images remains challenging because of a lack of labeled training data. To overcome this limitation, we propose using Wikipedia as a previously untapped…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Evan Sheehan , Burak Uzkent , Chenlin Meng , Zhongyi Tang , Marshall Burke , David Lobell , Stefano Ermon

Fast-developing fields such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) often outpace the efforts of encyclopedic sources such as Wikipedia, which either do not completely cover recently-introduced topics or lack such content entirely. As a result,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Irene Li , Alexander Fabbri , Rina Kawamura , Yixin Liu , Xiangru Tang , Jaesung Tae , Chang Shen , Sally Ma , Tomoe Mizutani , Dragomir Radev

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 study considers the task of machine reading at scale (MRS) wherein, given a question, a system first performs the information retrieval (IR) task of finding relevant passages in a knowledge source and then carries out the reading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Kyosuke Nishida , Itsumi Saito , Atsushi Otsuka , Hisako Asano , Junji Tomita