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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 In many cases citations are either outdated…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

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. In this open model, some people edits with the intent of harming the integrity of Wikipedia. This is known as vandalism. We extend the framework presented in (Potthast, Stein, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Santiago M. Mola-Velasco

The Web and its main tools (Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter) deeply raise and renew fundamental questions, that everyone asks almost every day: Is this information or content true? Can I trust this author or source? These questions are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Gilles Sahut , André Tricot

Rapid development of Internet technologies promotes traditional newspapers to report news on social networks. However, people on social networks may have different needs which naturally arises the question: whether can we analyze the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Yuting Yang , Juan Cao , Mingyan Lu , Jintao Li , Chia-Wen Lin

Wikipedia can easily be justified as a behemoth, considering the sheer volume of content that is added or removed every minute to its several projects. This creates an immense scope, in the field of natural language processing towards…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Soumya Sarkar , Bhanu Prakash Reddy , Sandipan Sikdar , Animesh Mukherjee

Wikipedia serves as a globally accessible knowledge source with content in over 300 languages. Despite covering the same topics, the different versions of Wikipedia are written and updated independently. This leads to factual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Silvia Cappa , Lingxiao Kong , Pille-Riin Peet , Fanfu Wei , Yuchen Zhou , Jan-Christoph Kalo

Gender imbalance in Wikipedia content is a known challenge which the editor community is actively addressing. The aim of this paper is to provide the Wikipedia community with instruments to estimate the magnitude of the problem for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Hrishikesh Patel , Tianwa Chen , Ivano Bongiovanni , Gianluca Demartini

Social media platforms enable the rapid dissemination and consumption of information. However, users instantly consume such content regardless of the reliability of the shared data. Consequently, the latter crowdsourcing model is exposed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Francisco de Arriba-Pérez , Silvia García-Méndez , Fátima Leal , Benedita Malheiro , Juan Carlos Burguillo

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

The rise of AI-generated content in popular information sources raises significant concerns about accountability, accuracy, and bias amplification. Beyond directly impacting consumers, the widespread presence of this content poses questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Creston Brooks , Samuel Eggert , Denis Peskoff

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

The verification of multimedia content over social media is one of the challenging and crucial issues in the current scenario and gaining prominence in an age where user-generated content and online social web platforms are the leading…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Deepika Varshney , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

The automatic quality assessment of self-media online articles is an urgent and new issue, which is of great value to the online recommendation and search. Different from traditional and well-formed articles, self-media online articles are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Yiru Wang , Shen Huang , Gongfu Li , Qiang Deng , Dongliang Liao , Pengda Si , Yujiu Yang , Jin Xu

Online encyclopediae like Wikipedia contain large amounts of text that need frequent corrections and updates. The new information may contradict existing content in encyclopediae. In this paper, we focus on rewriting such dynamically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Darsh J Shah , Tal Schuster , Regina Barzilay

A major challenge for many analyses of Wikipedia dynamics -- e.g., imbalances in content quality, geographic differences in what content is popular, what types of articles attract more editor discussion -- is grouping the very diverse range…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Isaac Johnson , Martin Gerlach , Diego Sáez-Trumper

Wikipedia is one of the richest knowledge sources on the Web today. In order to facilitate navigating, searching, and maintaining its content, Wikipedia's guidelines state that all articles should be annotated with a so-called short…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Marija Sakota , Maxime Peyrard , Robert West

We demonstrate the SciLens News Platform, a novel system for evaluating the quality of news articles. The SciLens News Platform automatically collects contextual information about news articles in real-time and provides quality indicators…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Angelika Romanou , Panayiotis Smeros , Carlos Castillo , Karl Aberer

Hoaxes are a recognised form of disinformation created deliberately, with potential serious implications in the credibility of reference knowledge resources such as Wikipedia. What makes detecting Wikipedia hoaxes hard is that they often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Hsuvas Borkakoty , Luis Espinosa-Anke

AI tools are increasingly deployed in community contexts. However, datasets used to evaluate AI are typically created by developers and annotators outside a given community, which can yield misleading conclusions about AI performance. How…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Tzu-Sheng Kuo , Aaron Halfaker , Zirui Cheng , Jiwoo Kim , Meng-Hsin Wu , Tongshuang Wu , Kenneth Holstein , Haiyi Zhu

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