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As free online encyclopedias with massive volumes of content, Wikipedia and Wikidata are key to many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, such as information retrieval, knowledge base building, machine translation, text classification,…

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 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

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 a critical source of information for millions of users across the Web. It serves as a key resource for large language models, search engines, question-answering systems, and other Web-based applications. In Wikipedia, content…

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

With the growth of fake news and disinformation, the NLP community has been working to assist humans in fact-checking. However, most academic research has focused on model accuracy without paying attention to resource efficiency, which is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Mykola Trokhymovych , Diego Saez-Trumper

To cope with the large number of publications, more and more researchers are automatically extracting data of interest using natural language processing methods based on supervised learning. Much data, especially in the natural and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jan Göpfert , Patrick Kuckertz , Jann M. Weinand , Detlef Stolten

This contribution argues that Reddit, as a massive, categorized, open-access dataset, is a useful data source, for "almost any topic". Hence, it can be used in data science, e.g. for knowledge exploration. This statement is backed-up with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jan Sawicki , Maria Ganzha , Marcin Paprzycki , Amelia Bădică

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

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

We propose a dynamic map of knowledge generated from Wikipedia pages and the Web URLs contained therein. GalaxySearch provides answers to the questions we don't know how to ask, by constructing a semantic network of the most relevant pages…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Hauke Fuehres , Peter A. Gloor , Michael Henninger , Reto Kleeb , Keiichi Nemoto

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

We present WikiReading, a large-scale natural language understanding task and publicly-available dataset with 18 million instances. The task is to predict textual values from the structured knowledge base Wikidata by reading the text of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Daniel Hewlett , Alexandre Lacoste , Llion Jones , Illia Polosukhin , Andrew Fandrianto , Jay Han , Matthew Kelcey , David Berthelot

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

Online user profiling is a very active research field, catalyzing great interest by both scientists and practitioners. In this paper, in particular, we look at approaches able to mine social media activities of users to create a rich user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Christian Torrero , Carlo Caprini , Daniele Miorandi

Webpages have been a rich resource for language and vision-language tasks. Yet only pieces of webpages are kept: image-caption pairs, long text articles, or raw HTML, never all in one place. Webpage tasks have resultingly received little…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Andrea Burns , Krishna Srinivasan , Joshua Ainslie , Geoff Brown , Bryan A. Plummer , Kate Saenko , Jianmo Ni , Mandy Guo

Rendering Wikipedia content through mobile and augmented reality mediums can enable new forms of interaction in urban-focused user communities facilitating learning, communication and knowledge exchange. With this objective in mind, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jimin Tan , Anastasios Noulas , Diego Sáez , Rossano Schifanella

Extracting useful information from the user history to clearly understand informational needs is a crucial feature of a proactive information retrieval system. Regarding understanding information and relevance, Wikipedia can provide the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Tabish Ahmed , Sahan Bulathwela

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