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Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Nicolas Heist , Heiko Paulheim

We present a new dataset of Wikipedia articles each paired with a knowledge graph, to facilitate the research in conditional text generation, graph generation and graph representation learning. Existing graph-text paired datasets typically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Luyu Wang , Yujia Li , Ozlem Aslan , Oriol Vinyals

Public knowledge graphs such as DBpedia and Wikidata have been recognized as interesting sources of background knowledge to build content-based recommender systems. They can be used to add information about the items to be recommended and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Michael Matthias Voit , Heiko Paulheim

Extracting structured knowledge from product profiles is crucial for various applications in e-Commerce. State-of-the-art approaches for knowledge extraction were each designed for a single category of product, and thus do not apply to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Giannis Karamanolakis , Jun Ma , Xin Luna Dong

This paper presents an in-depth analysis of Wikidata qualifiers, focusing on their semantics and actual usage, with the aim of developing a taxonomy that addresses the challenges of selecting appropriate qualifiers, querying the graph, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Gilles Falquet , Sahar Aljalbout

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

Millions of people irrespective of socioeconomic and demographic backgrounds, depend on Wikipedia articles everyday for keeping themselves informed regarding popular as well as obscure topics. Articles have been categorized by editors into…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Bhanu Prakash Reddy , Sasi Bhusan , Soumya Sarkar , Animesh Mukherjee

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 describe the construction of TeKnowbase, a knowledge-base of technical concepts in computer science. Our main information sources are technical websites such as Webopedia and Techtarget as well as Wikipedia and online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Prajna Upadhyay , Tanuma Patra , Ashwini Purkar , Maya Ramanath

Mining topical experts on social media is a problem that has gained significant attention due to its wide-ranging applications. Here we present the first study that combines data from four major social networks -- Twitter, Facebook, Google+…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Nemanja Spasojevic , Prantik Bhattacharyya , Adithya Rao

In this paper we investigate the nature and structure of the relation between imposed classifications and real clustering in a particular case of a scale-free network given by the on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia. We find a statistical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Capocci , F. Rao , G. Caldarelli

Knowledge bases are collections of domain-specific and commonsense facts. Recently, the sizes of KBs are rocketing due to automatic extraction for knowledge and facts. For example, the number of facts in WikiData is up to 974 million!…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Ruoyu Wang , Daniel Sun , Guoqiang Li , Raymond Wong , Shiping Chen

Threshold concepts are key terms in domain-based knowledge acquisition. They are regarded as building blocks of the conceptual development of domain knowledge within particular learners. From a linguistic perspective, however, threshold…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Andy Lücking , Sebastian Brückner , Giuseppe Abrami , Tolga Uslu , Alexander Mehler

Wikipedia is a community-created online encyclopedia; arguably, it is the most popular and largest knowledge resource on the Internet. Thus, reliability and neutrality are of high importance for Wikipedia. Previous research [3] reveals…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-02-06 Olga Zagovora

Our study identifies sentences in Wikipedia articles that are either identical or highly similar by applying techniques for near-duplicate detection of web pages. This is accomplished with a MapReduce implementation of minhash to identify…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-06-05 Sarah Weissman , Samet Ayhan , Joshua Bradley , Jimmy Lin

Wikipedia is a critical resource for modern NLP, serving as a rich repository of up-to-date and citation-backed information on a wide variety of subjects. The reliability of Wikipedia -- its groundedness in its cited sources -- is vital to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 William Walden , Kathryn Ricci , Miriam Wanner , Zhengping Jiang , Chandler May , Rongkun Zhou , Benjamin Van Durme

This work addresses two important questions pertinent to Relation Extraction (RE). First, what are all possible relations that could exist between any two given entity types? Second, how do we define an unambiguous taxonomical (is-a)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Akshay Parekh , Ashish Anand , Amit Awekar

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

\emph{Verifiability} is one of the core editing principles in Wikipedia, editors being encouraged to provide citations for the added content. For a Wikipedia article, determining the \emph{citation span} of a citation, i.e. what content is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Besnik Fetahu , Katja Markert , Avishek Anand

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