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Although the vast majority of knowledge bases KBs are heavily biased towards English, Wikipedias do cover very different topics in different languages. Exploiting this, we introduce a new multilingual dataset (X-WikiRE), framing relation…

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We present a framework for question answering that can efficiently scale to longer documents while maintaining or even improving performance of state-of-the-art models. While most successful approaches for reading comprehension rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Eunsol Choi , Daniel Hewlett , Alexandre Lacoste , Illia Polosukhin , Jakob Uszkoreit , Jonathan Berant

Wikipedia relies on an extensive review process to verify that the content of each individual page is unbiased and presents a neutral point of view. Less attention has been paid to possible biases in the hyperlink structure of Wikipedia,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Cristina Menghini , Aris Anagnostopoulos , Eli Upfal

Among the manifold takes on world literature, it is our goal to contribute to the discussion from a digital point of view by analyzing the representation of world literature in Wikipedia with its millions of articles in hundreds of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Christoph Hube , Frank Fischer , Robert Jäschke , Gerhard Lauer , Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

We propose an automatic language-independent graph-based method to build \`a-la-carte article collections on user-defined domains from the Wikipedia. The core model is based on the exploration of the encyclopaedia's category graph and can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Cristina España-Bonet , Alberto Barrón-Cedeño , Lluís Màrquez

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

In this paper, we introduce a new NLP task -- generating short factual articles with references for queries by mining supporting evidence from the Web. In this task, called WebBrain, the ultimate goal is to generate a fluent, informative,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Hongjing Qian , Yutao Zhu , Zhicheng Dou , Haoqi Gu , Xinyu Zhang , Zheng Liu , Ruofei Lai , Zhao Cao , Jian-Yun Nie , Ji-Rong Wen

The retriever-reader framework is popular for open-domain question answering (ODQA) due to its ability to use explicit knowledge. Although prior work has sought to increase the knowledge coverage by incorporating structured knowledge beyond…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Kaixin Ma , Hao Cheng , Xiaodong Liu , Eric Nyberg , Jianfeng Gao

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

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

Wikipedia, in its role as the world's largest encyclopedia, serves a broad range of information needs. Although previous studies have noted that Wikipedia users' information needs vary throughout the day, there is to date no large-scale,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Tiziano Piccardi , Martin Gerlach , Robert West

Existing knowledge-based question answering systems often rely on small annotated training data. While shallow methods like relation extraction are robust to data scarcity, they are less expressive than the deep meaning representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Kun Xu , Siva Reddy , Yansong Feng , Songfang Huang , Dongyan Zhao

Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, with millions of users relying on it to satisfy a broad range of information needs every day. Although it is crucial to understand what exactly these needs are in order to be able to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Philipp Singer , Florian Lemmerich , Robert West , Leila Zia , Ellery Wulczyn , Markus Strohmaier , Jure Leskovec

Search engines are some of the most popular and profitable intelligent technologies in existence. Recent research, however, has suggested that search engines may be surprisingly dependent on user-created content like Wikipedia articles to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Nicholas Vincent , Isaac Johnson , Patrick Sheehan , Brent Hecht

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

Wikipedia is a huge opportunity for machine learning, being the largest semi-structured base of knowledge available. Because of this, many works examine its contents, and focus on structuring it in order to make it usable in learning tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Tiphaine Viard , Thomas McLachlan , Hamidreza Ghader , Satoshi Sekine

Answering multiple-choice questions in a setting in which no supporting documents are explicitly provided continues to stand as a core problem in natural language processing. The contribution of this article is two-fold. First, it describes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-15 George-Sebastian Pîrtoacă , Traian Rebedea , Stefan Ruseti

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

When it comes to factual knowledge about a wide range of domains, Wikipedia is often the prime source of information on the web. DBpedia and YAGO, as large cross-domain knowledge graphs, encode a subset of that knowledge by creating an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Nicolas Heist , Heiko Paulheim

In this paper, we approach the problem of semantic search by framing the search task as paraphrase span detection, i.e. given a segment of text as a query phrase, the task is to identify its paraphrase in a given document, the same…

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